Our Total continues to rise❤️

 

The poster in my workshop shows our progress with fundraising and I have to say, we are overwhelmed with the support so far a huge thank you to you all. 

We are at £4600 and getting close to the £5000 which is the target for me to  make an additional wood turned gift to give away. 

With our start date getting closer, we continue to be inspired to get fit enough to achieve this challenge and your support and generosity has been a driving force. 

After the events that made our lives so difficult previously rising money for the mental health charity mind seemed appropriate. We have found since doing our charity walks walking is a huge boost to mental health But, just a reminder Remember it’s good to talk. It’s okay not to be okay. The money we raise will help save lives and improve others So thank you again  We will strive to Increase the total raised and do the best we can.   

We are overwhelmed by your support

 Totally overwhelmed by the response to our fundraising. 

What an incredible group of people you all are. You are really spurring us on with our preparation. 8 years since our last charity walk and we have definitely aged and feeling less capable but your support has spurred us on to get fit for what is our toughest challenge yet. 

£3500 already wow,wow,wow!!! 

A huge thank you 

Your donations are making a difference to many struggling with their Mental health 💙💙

Thank you xxx

Fully arranged

 It takes some sorting out as dog friendly but we have our itinerary fully completed well in advance and are looking forward to this challenging schedule. 

We have managed to book a Pod for the night of Steve’s 60th  

Our itinerary is now confirmed as follows 

Day 1 Edale - Crowden 

2 Crowden - Diggle 

3 Diggle - Hebden Bridge 

4 Hebden Bridge - Cowling 

5 Cowling - Kirkby Malham 

6 Kirkby Malham - Horton in Ribblesdale 

7 Ribblesdale - Hawes 

8 Hawes to Keld 

9 Keld - Cotherstone via Baldersdale  

10 Baldersdale - High Force 

11 High Force - Dufton - Appleby 

12 back Dufton- Alston 

13 Alston - Greenhead 

14 Greenhead - Bellingham 

15 Bellingham - Byrness 

16 Byrness - Trows 

17 Trows - Kirk Yetholm

Elm Burr clock to be won

 All our supporters who donate whatever method or amount will go into the draw for an Elm Burr clock. 

If our total goes over £5,000 I will make a second price for the draw  

If you want to see a video of it being made it’s on my YouTube page here. 

Click here for video

An amazing start to our fundraising

We have already started to raise money for Mind via sponsorship forms and justgiving.
We have been overwhelmed by the response of our family and friends worldwide and can report that we have already reached over £1700 

You can follow our progress, OR DONATE, with the fund raising on

Just Giving Page .

Or scan the QR code

The Pennine Way

 Well we’ve  managed to plan it finally and 2024 Charity walk is on. After some very stressful times over the recent years with Mental Illness causing a huge upheaval to our families lives and also losing some close friends to it we have decided to support MIND. 

To make it dog friendly we will have to go off route a few times but return each day so the complete Pennine way along the central mountains of England, the Pennines and the Cheviots is done. The extra miles will mean we are walking  about 450km (280miles) From Edale in Derbyshire Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in Scotland borders. 

12,000 meters of ascent which is approx 9 x Ben Nevis. 🙈

Training begins now I just hope we’ve  not bitten of more than I can do as we are not getting any younger and a have few old injuries but doing it in 17 days 

As you can see Jane, Kirsty and I have done 2 long walks for Charity before and had incredible support hopefully we can go somewhere close to matching that support. We’ve done nothing this challenging before. 

We will personally fund the challenge so 100% of monies raised will go to charity. 

All details will be circulated later in the  year it’s too soon to worry about now. ❤️

Totals

I am Very Sorry for the late posting of this.
I am proud so of Jane and Kirsty 
After collecting almost all sponsor money,  I have posted a final cheque to Cancer Research UK. 
Our total is an amazing £4,701.14 this means our two walks have raised the astonishing total of £10,316.14
The Winner of the draw for the clock was Steve Stanyer in Birmingham. 
We can only thank everyone for their unbelievable support and while we have seen some incredible scenery, met some fabulous people and our belief that most people are good people has been proved. the sense of achievement has helped the family cope with the trauma of the loss of loved ones and for this we are most grateful to you all. And to top it all we have raised loads towards beating this cruel illness.
We have found a new love of long distance walking and while we shall not be taking on more sponsored walks for sometime we will continue to explore this glorious country we live in, so thanks again to our friends and family for your help.