{"id":904297,"date":"2026-04-19T06:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/904297\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:52:15","slug":"son-walks-nearly-100-miles-from-bristol-to-birmingham-after-mum-waited-a-decade-for-kidney-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/904297\/","title":{"rendered":"Son walks nearly 100 miles from Bristol to Birmingham after mum waited a decade for kidney transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"

“She had been waiting almost a decade, when her kidney started failing”<\/p>\n

A young Bristol man has completed a huge walking challenge to raise money for a leading kidney charity, following his mother’s transplant surgery. Adil Shaikh, 22, will pounded his way from Bristol to Birmingham over three days, earlier this month, a distance of almost 100 miles. He was walking this in aid of Kidney Care UK, just weeks after his mother Shirin, 62, had a kidney transplant. Pictured is Adil at the end of his trek in Birmingham.(Image: Adil Shaikh)<\/p>\n

A young Bristol man has completed a huge walking challenge to raise money for a leading kidney charity, following his mother’s transplant surgery.<\/p>\n

Adil Shaikh, 22, will pounded his way from Bristol to Birmingham over three days, earlier this month, a distance of almost 100 miles. He was walking this in aid of Kidney Care UK, just weeks after his mother Shirin, 62, had a kidney transplant.<\/p>\n

Adil, from Southmead<\/a>, studies accounting and finance at the GBS (Global Banking School) in Birmingham, commutes several times a week from his home in Bristol to the West Midlands.<\/p>\n

He said: “I decided to do this challenge because of my mum who had a transplant earlier this year. She had been waiting almost a decade, when her kidney started failing. There have been some issues since the transplant but she is recovering well now and has returned to work.”<\/p>\n

Turning to the challenge, Adil said he raised \u00a3313, and added: “I chose Kidney Care Uk because they help people with a range of issues around transplants, and that’s important.”<\/p>\n

Kidney Care UK is the country’s leading kidney patient support charity. It provides practical, emotional and financial support to kidney patients and their families.<\/p>\n

Adil followed mainly the A38 from Bristol, taking in Gloucester on his way to the GBS campus in Birmingham city centre.<\/p>\n

He said: “I started walking early each morning, and covering over 30 miles each day, it was classed as an ultra marathon in distance, over the three days. I had blisters on the first day but was able to take care of them with a first aid kit.<\/p>\n

“The biggest issue was shin splints on the second day, I couldn’t move my legs that night but I pushed through and actually finished ahead of time on the last day reaching Birmingham. The majority of the walk followed the A38 but I did cut through farmland and wooded areas too.”<\/p>\n

Adil was alone for the majority of the trek but was joined by friends for 10 mile sections.<\/p>\n

He added: “Being on your own was tough because time is long but thankfully some friends joined me in parts and I want to thank everyone who supported me in helping to raise money for Kidney Care UK.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“She had been waiting almost a decade, when her kidney started failing” A young Bristol man has completed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,10963,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-904297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-southmead","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116430055741169984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}