Max Woosey was 10 when a neighbor he loved in North Devon, UK, died in hospice, leaving Max a tent and the advice that he should “have an adventure.”

Impressed with the great care his neighbor had received in hospice, Max decided that his adventure would be raising money for the hospice service. He’d ask people to put up money for each night he slept in the tent, in the backyard, instead of in his bedroom. Maybe he could raise a hundred pounds.

He did that in the first few nights, so he decided to keep going. And going.

Three years later, he had raised of 750,000 pounds, enough to pay 15 hospice nurses for a year. In those three years, there were snowfalls, hail, rain, wild winds, and a heat wave. His tent collapsed repeatedly. During the heat wave, Max had Covid. In the tent.

His mum reports that all efforts to get him to sleep in the house were met with his awesome determination to keep going.

Max is modest as well as determined, saying, “It is crazy that it has got so much attention, but I hope it makes people see that children are capable of a lot more than people think.”