Amazing! We have smashed the £5,000 thank you everyone, many of you may know Merlin had a bad cut on his Carpal Paw recently and is currently with a collar but it’s healing well and he is going to be fine for the walk. Training is still going on but we will be walking without Merlin for a couple of weeks. With just under 2 months to go let’s see how much we can increase the total we have been amazed and inspired at the support so far. Your help is helping others.
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.
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
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
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.
Or scan the QR code
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. ❤️
