with the God of Honor from the armed forces this was the moment World War two veteran
captain Tom Moore completed his epic fundraising challenge his mission was to thank NHS staff by
raising a thousand pounds for NHS Charities and complete a hundred laps of his garden
before turning 100 not only did he achieve his goal he absolutely smashed it raising
at the time of filming over 28 million pounds for the NHS and that number is still growing
every hour his story has gone viral inspiring people from all over the world to thank him
sent him messages of support and sponsor his effort you are phenomenal human being but to
congratulate you on raising such a huge amount of money so to recognize his incredible efforts
recently I've been given special permission to go to captain Tom's actual house meet him film
with him and give him through Peters highest accolade a gold Blue Peter badge let's do this
now don't worry we're being especially careful with our filming and I'll be staying a safe
two meters away from Tom and his grandchildren so Tom Benjy and Georgia welcome to Blue Peter
thank you so so much for having us here today I've got to say the badges look great on all
of you congratulations on all your walking and everything you've done you set out to hopefully
raise a thousand pounds yes currently on about 26 million now so currently on 28 million yes think
you've raised for the NHS talk to me about why it's so so important to you to raise money for
the NHS I think the reason people have got so on board with what you've been doing tom is during
this moment of crisis everyone needs light and they need hope don't they and that's exactly what
what your granddad's done isn't it Benjy I think it's quite incredible it shows that we generate as
a public really care I think to see that they've got the high-end granddad it's made me cry over
the last few weeks I just hope it inspires people to do more and it shows that even in dark times
we genuinely can help just like a beacon of hope we hope he is for others it just shows we do care
what's it like because your granddad has overnight become this this hero it's quite amazing because
everyone around me like oh you'll probably you'll never go this far but now we've gone this far we
can't really turn back and with VE Day just around the corner I wanted to ask Tom about his memories
of the end of World War two everybody was going around in arms London was absolutely packed with
people dancing about absolutely thrilled with the fact that at last we'd go through the in Europe
and it was a great day I wonder as well what your comrades would say you know if they could see you
now doing these laps in your garden raising all this money and this awareness I think they'd say
well done we can't cooperate [ __ ] throughout the war was great and continued afterwards you
have technically finished your challenge now but I'm told the you're still walking is that right
captain Tom set off to do a hundred I'm trying to do another hundred Tom on the birthday well
I'm talking to you I'm not walking I know I know I won't take up any more of your time but I've
got to say I've met some incredible people being a Blue Peter presenter but you're right up there
this is an absolute honor so thank you thank you we at Blue Peter think it is brilliant what you've
achieved and what you've done over the past couple of weeks we've got a little surprise
Benji and George are on board they know what's going on or so on behalf of Blue Peter and our
wonderful audience we'd like to award you with our highest accolade which is a gold Blue Peter bad
that's absolutely amazing thank you very much son I'm very proud to receive that because
I've always been a great fellow of Lucrece I remember the elephant which this is such a
few years ago it was iconic so thank you very much indeed I really am delighted about this