The charity event is hugely popular, raising tens of thousands of pounds for charity each year – with 23 to benefit from the 2019 challenge.
The Walk’s committee, made up of representatives from the Rotary Club and sponsor Saffery Champness, had the difficult task of selecting the projects from all the charity applications received.
Lisa Vizia, Director at Saffery Champness and member of the organising committee, said: “Every year selecting the charities is a difficult task. There are so many worthy projects on the island and the number of applications havecontinued toincrease over the years we’ve been involved.
“As part of our ongoingcommitment to the local community, we aim to support as many charitable projects as possible and we feel that the committee’schoices this year representa good cross section of island life. As always we hope many walkers sign up and raise as much as possible for these well deservingcharities.”
The island’s Lieutenant Governor, Sir Ian Corder, right, is the patron of the walk. He completed it last year with his son.
Simon Milsted, Chairperson of the walk’s organising committee, added: “The walk has significant impact on our community and its continued successis builton people taking part and generating sponsorship,so we’d like to encourage any potential walkers out there to take advantage of our early-bird offers and get registered as soon as possible, whether you are walking the full 39 miles or a section of it as part of a relay team.
“This will ensure that we are able to contribute the full amount that we have pledged to this year’s chosen charities.”
The Saffery Rotary Walk is one of Guernsey’s largest annual charity fundraising events and the only round-island walk.
The projects selected for the funding in 2019 are:
• Arts for Impact – funding for eight-week course of art based workshops
• Choices LBG – providing training for three nurses in specialist sexual health skills
• Cystic Fibrosis, Guernsey – purchasing an innovative new airway clearing device
• Dementia Friendly Guernsey – raising awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle in the prevention of dementia
• ECOF (Every Child Our Future) – establishing a breast pump library and normalising breast feeding on the island
• Grow Ltd – purchasing, materials, posts, wires and fruit trees to create an espalier tree bank; anda fridge to store produce
• Guernsey Alzheimer’s Association – providingspecialist equipment to help improve the lives of those living with dementia
• Guernsey Caring for Ex-Offenders – purchasing sewing machines for craft workshops, and buyingsecond-hand bicylesfor travel to work
• Guernsey Gateway Club – buying musical instruments for the clubroom
• Guernsey RAF Air Cadets – purchasing eight two way UHF radios
• Lauren Ellis LBG. The S.E.L.F Project – purchasingtraffic light bands to help people with mental illness express how they arefeeling; and advertising leaflets for other agencies
• Le Rondin School Parents, Teachers and FriendsAssociation – introducingVirtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technology
• Paws for Support – providing highly trained dogs to improve people’s lives in everything from literacy to self-esteem
• St Mary and St Michael Primary School– replacing playground equipment
• The Friends of KGV – revamping the playground facilities
• The Guernsey Society for Cancer Relief – training two nurses to understand the procedures involved in stem cell transplants
• The Lihou Island Charitable Trust – new archery equipment
• The Pollinator Project – planting pollinator patches in schools
• The RTU & OAP Association – to provide members who spend a lot of time on their own with a summer outing, a tea party and Christmas lunch with all the trimmings
• Vauvert Primary School Parents, Teachers and Friends Association – replacing play equipment
• We All Matter Eh? (GDA) – developing a suite of materials to help people better understand hidden disabilities
• Youth Commission – contribution towards replacing a minibus
Today is the last day you can sign up for an early bird fee, to get a discount when you register for the walk.
Those who register before today will pay £20, after which time the registration fee will increase to £25. Relay teams can also take advantage of a similaroffer.
Pictured top: The charities which will benefit from the 2019 Saffery Rotary Walk have been named.
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