Hugh Chevallier is fundraising for Teenage Cancer Trust

The Wisden Walk

Wisden Walk

between 19/03/2007 and 19/05/2007

Team Members:
Hugh Chevallier and Paul Coupar

Laurie Engel

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Laurie Engel

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Raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust

Charity Registration No. 1062559

Every day in the UK, six teenagers are diagnosed with cancer. At Teenage Cancer Trust, we understand that cancer doesn’t stop these teenagers being teenagers. We know that young people have a much better chance if they are treated by teenage cancers experts, in an environment tailored to their needs. So we have created specialist units that aren’t like ordinary cancer wards. Everything about them has been designed to give teenagers the very best chance of a positive outcome. And we want every young person with cancer in this country to have that chance.

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Hugh Chevallier

Raised: 110%

Target: £7,500.00
Raised so far: £8,283.00

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We are walking 150 miles across southern England, from one Wisden office to another, to raise money for the Laurie Engel Fund (Teenage Cancer Trust).

Laurie, the son of Wisden editor Matthew Engel, died in September 2005, aged 13. His parents, Matthew and Hilary, set up the fund to help pay for a six-bed extension to the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where Laurie was treated for a particularly aggressive cancer. His medical care was excellent; the non-medical facilities were dismal.

The extension will allow teenage cancer patients to have some space to themselves – where they can just be teenagers. As well as giving patients more dignity, such wards also increase survival rates.

We set off from Upton Grey (near Basingstoke in Hampshire) at 10am on Saturday 19 May. Our first stop, after a gentle four miles, is the Wisden office at the Golden Pot, near Alton. Or possibly the pub near by.

From there, in the company of an assortment of friends, family and colleagues, we take ten days, walking for between 15 and 19 miles a day, to reach the house in the Golden Valley, south-west of Hereford, where Matthew lives and works, and where Laurie lived and died.

We hope to stride (but expect to hobble) down the Engels’ drive some time after lunch on Whit Monday, 28 May. It would have been Laurie’s 15th birthday. See below for a rough itinerary of where we are when.

Please give us your support by sponsoring us, walking with us or, best of all, both. For more details of the Wisden Walk, please email either hugh.chevallier@wisdengroup.com or paul.coupar@wisdengroup.com. Or visit laurieengelfund.org. If you haven't already seen it, you might also like to read Matthew's profoundly moving piece in The Guardian about Laurie, and about his illness.

If you’d rather send a cheque, please make it payable to “TCT Laurie Engel Fund” and send it to one or other of our home addresses. Please email us if you're not sure where we live.

Thank you so very much for your support.

Hugh Chevallier and Paul Coupar

And oh yes, here's the bald itinerary:

Day 1: Upton Grey - Golden Pot - Dummer
Day 2: Dummer - Watership Down - Ashmansworth
Day 3: Ashmansworth - Buttermere - Ramsbury
Day 4: Ramsbury - Ogbourne St George - Clyffe Pypard
Day 5: Clyffe Pypard - Stopper's Hill (Brinkworth) - Somerford Keynes
Day 6: Somerford Keynes - Sapperton - Painswick
Day 7: Painswick - Gloucester - Tibberton
Day 8: Tibberton - Mitcheldean - Peterstow
Day 9: Peterstow - Hoarwithy - Kilpeck
Day 10: Kilpeck - Kentchurch - Bacton

	Best of luck Donation by the Lampards on 30/03/07	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck Donation by David Wightman on 30/03/07	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Wishing you well and hoping to join you for a short distance. Donation by W. Howie on 30/03/07	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	Donation by richard charkin on 30/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good luck, look after those feet! Donation by Steven Lynch on 27/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Hope you'll be wearing the Wisden sweatshirt. Good luck x Donation by Tanya on 26/03/07	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by John Wheelock on 26/03/07	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	May you have nine days of sunshine Donation by Paddy on 26/03/07	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	Good luck! Donation by Kate Coggins on 26/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good luck to you both! Donation by Polly on 23/03/07	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	Good luck big man Donation by Billy on 23/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	good luck coups Donation by ross allen on 23/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Best of luck! Donation by Simon Webber on 22/03/07	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Donation by David & Christine on 22/03/07	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	All the best Donation by Andrew Renshaw on 22/03/07	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	Best of luck Donation by Jo on 22/03/07	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Very worthwhile cause. Good luck. Donation by Douglas Henderson on 22/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Hugh Donation by Mem on 22/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Tally ho!! Donation by Rob Steen on 21/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Donation by Paul Bolton on 21/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	The very best of luck! Donation by Lawrence on 21/03/07	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Best of luck - and don't forget the plasters! Donation by Susi on 21/03/07	£20.00
	Good luck Donation by Alastair McLellan on 21/03/07	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£3,883.00
Offline donations:	£4,400.00
Mobile donations:	£0.00
Total Raised:	£8,283.00
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£1,037.38

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Raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust

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