SPONSORED WALK REMEMBERING D-DAY JUNE 6 1944 - BASILDON TWINNING

This is the general information about the sponsored Walk on the 8th June The plan is to walk the seven and a half miles (equivalent of Sword Beach to Pegasus Bridge in Normandy) The walk will start at Beauchamps School, Wickford and will finish at Wat Tyler Park Pitsea.

The added special item is that the walkers will be accompanied by a piper at some parts of the walk. Not just any piper, our piper is the best friend of the son of Bill Millins who was the piper on D-Day 80 Years ago. We are hoping that all the students going to Normandy in June with us will walk with us and get as many sponsors as possible to help us reach our targets.

We are looking for volunteers on the day in a variety of ways. First and foremost, we need a few marshalls on route for road crossings. We may also need a couple of people with cars in case we need to pick up any stragglers or injured students or take them across roads. (They would need to be DBS checked). We will also need people to hand out water on route too. We hope some of the students' parents will be around to help but we do need a plan B in case. 

The Sponsored Walk

Before we booked the trip to Normandy, we knew that we would need to fundraise for a shortfall of £3,000. The parents are contributing £10,500 towards the cost of the tour, Basildon Twinning have given a grant of £12,000, Basildon Rotary Club have donated

£500, The Race Night held last Saturday raised £1,000. This leaves £1,500 to go.

 Our plan is to raise this on the Sponsored Walk on Saturday 8^th June during the Commemoration of D-Day week. The start is at 2.00pm and it is scheduled to finish at 5.00pm

 We want to make it a special (Very Special) walk.

If anyone is willing to help out or if anyone wants to take part or sponsor, they can contact us at basildontwin@gmail.com