Cardiff To St. Davids: A Charity Challenge
Last October, on a long car journey home from a cross country race, I looked at an AA road map. Now, as anyone with a sense of adventure would tell you, that can be a very dangerous thing. By the time I got home the map had been thoroughly examined and I had declared to my driving dad that I would walk from Cardiff, Wales’ capital, to St. Davids, Britain’s smallest city, sometime in 2011 just because I fancied a challenge.
In three weeks' time this idea will become a reality and I’m here to tell you a bit about it
A Long Walk for Save the Children
From August 11th onwards myself and two friends, Gareth (17, St Teilos) and Carys (18, Cardiff High), will be walking over 200km along the South Wales coast in order to raise money for Save the Children.
After months of planning and some last minute alterations, our route is complete - from Cardiff Bay to St David’s in Pembrokeshire via Barry, Porthcawl, Port Talbot, Swansea, Carmarthen, Tenby, Bosherston and Milford Haven. Phew. We hope to finish by the 19th, which means over 30km a day of walking (the first day being a massive 42km) and we will be camping every night. The route is very varied - from seaside resorts to beautiful inlets to industrial sites - and we know that it will be a fantastic experience and a very memorable way to see more of Wales.
We will be talking on BBC Radio Wales and (fingers crossed) on BBC Wales Today at some point and hopefully in newspapers along the coast so look out for three extremely good looking people in Save the Children t-shirts!
Many friends have called us crazy but already, following some assemblies, a cake sale, a raffle and support from our schools and families, we have raised over £1800 and with your help can smash past the £2000 mark. Save the Children is a brilliant charity that works in over 120 countries to help break the poverty chain and aims to give every child a fair shot at life.
Each year, 8 million children under the age of five die of preventable illnesses and we want to help their work in tackling this.
If you would like to sponsor us and give to Save the Children, please visit our Just Giving site.
Finally, if you would like to wave us off on our trek, then get yourselves down to Roald Dahl Plass on 11th August to say goodbye (you'll have to be there at about 6am though as we need to leave very early!)
I hope you can all give something to help a great cause and all that is left to say is bring on the blisters!
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3 Comments – Postiwch sylw
Tom_Bevan
Rhoddwyd sylw 58 mis yn ôl - 22nd July 2011 - 11:26am
I didn't say on here but thanks to both Cardiff High and St teilos for being very supportive :)
Sam Sprout (Editor)
Rhoddwyd sylw 58 mis yn ôl - 22nd July 2011 - 11:57am
Wow! I could barely be bothered to walk to the corner shop during my summer holidays and you're walking how far?!
Faymondo:)
Rhoddwyd sylw 58 mis yn ôl - 22nd July 2011 - 13:56pm
This is such an inspiring thng to do!!! Hopefully I can make it on the day to wave you all off....it really is amazing that you would do something like this off your own backs. Wish I could do it someday!! Good luck:)