Business Support for My Big Walk

Only six days to go to the start of my charity walk from Northfleet (near Gravesend) to Dover Castle on behalf of ChYps children's hospice.

Total donations have now reached £ 360 partly thanks to a number of businesses in and around Kent who have supported me (and of course ChYps).

I would like to thank the following people for their kind help:-

James Dewane of Kent Electrics Ltd - NICEIC electricians providing a full range of services in the Medway towns and Maidstone for more than 25 years. Please check out James web site for more detailed information.

Marc Lemezma - Experienced magician (member of the Magic Circle), public speaking coach and presenter based in Maidstone, Kent. Please check out Marc's web site especially his videos.

Alastair Wood of AW Accounting - contact Alastair for straightforward advice on accounts and tax matters. Please check out Alastair's web site and in particular his many excellent customer testimonials.

If your business would like to help me raise at least £ 500 so that seriously ill children in Kent and the London Borough of Bexley can receive chemotherapy from ChYps nurses in their own homes, you can sponsor me here.

My Big walk - only seven days to go!

Next Friday morning, the 24th August, I will be setting out on my longest ever walk.

Over the Bank Holiday weekend I will be walking from the Ellenor Lions hospice in Northfleet near Gravesend to Dover Castle - a total distance of around seventy miles.

I am walking to raise money for ChYps, the children's and young person's section of the Ellenor Lions hospice.

ChYps currently look after around one hundred seriously ill children and young people in West Kent and the London Borough of Bexley. ChYps ethos is to provide care in the familiar surroundings of the patient's own home wherever possible.

I hope to generate at least £ 500 for ChYps. As at the time of writing this post total donations stood at
£ 280 - already over 50% of target.

This week I have been planning the actual logistics of the walk.

On the first day I'm aiming to walk from the hospice to Cuxton where I will pick up the North Downs Way then cross over the Medway Bridge at Rochester before climbing up Bluebell Hill and finally Detling Hill.

On day two, I plan to continue on from Detling along the North Downs Way past Thurnham, Lenham and Hollingbourne and stay overnight in Ashford.

Ideally I wanted to find a small B&B but as it's the Bank Holiday weekend a lot of places were already booked out so I've had to plump for the Holiday Inn on the A20 - not the most scenic part of Kent!

On day three I plan to continue on the North Downs Way again from Ashford through Wye over the Downs then on to Brabourne and Stowting and finally to the outskirts of Folkestone where I have managed to find a great looking B&B.

The lady that owns the B&B (in an 18th Century farmhouse) has very kindly given me a 50% reduction on the usual room rate and has also promised to make a donation to ChYps. I will write more about this place next week...

On day four, the final day of the walk, I will follow the last leg of the North Downs Way along the coast from Folkestone through to Dover. On the way I will pass the entrance to the Channel Tunnel, the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel le Ferne and Samphire Hoe Country Park so there will be plenty to write about.

My "finishing line" will be the keep of Dover Castle pictured above where I hope to meet up with my wife and son. I hope they will be there... it's a long walk home again.

If you would like to keep up to date with my progress, I will be tweeting (@wavecrestglen) whenever possible and hope to update this blog after each day of the walk.

To help ChYps care for more children in their own homes you can sponsor me at -

Virgin Money Giving - Glen's ChYps North Downs Challenge

If you are a Kent business and would like to promote your business on this blog in return for a donation to ChYps, please contact me via Twitter or e-mail: glen@wavecrest.co.uk

Many thanks for your support.

My longest walk (yet) and why I'm doing it

Over the August Bank Holiday weekend I will be walking from the Ellenor Lions Hospice at Northfleet to Dover Castle - a total distance of around seventy miles.

I will be walking cross country via the North Downs Way, something I have wanted to do for many years.

Why am I doing it?

Apart from fulfilling a personal ambition, I am trying to raise at least £ 500 for Chyps childrens hospice services.

ChYps provides palliative care to around a hundred children and young people with life shortening illnesses throughout North and West Kent and the London Borough of Bexley.

Please have a look at their video to get an idea of the much needed services they currently provide .....

and here is another video from one of the families they have helped....

If you would like to sponsor me and help the work of Chyps, please visit my Virgin Money Giving page now.

Every pound you can spare will make a difference.

A donation of £ 25 will enable ChYps to maintain their 24/7 telephone advice line.

A donation of £ 35 will allow ChYps to provide chemotherapy to a child in their own home.

After each day of the walk I hope to post an update on this blog and, provided my technology (a.k.a my Ipad) doesn't let me down, I will be tweeting regularly too as I go.

Thanks for your support.