Annie, (aged 6) and Edie, (aged 4) (and their Mum and Dad Sophie and Harry (both very old)) are walking from Sharpness to Gloucester in aid of the Severn Area Rescue Association!

After months of training, Annie and Edie's Dad, Harry, will shortly become an operational member of the Severn Area Rescue Association's Tewkesbury Station, based at Tewkesbury Community Fire Station.

SARA is Britain's largest independent multi-disciplinary search and rescue organisation, with six stations covering the River Severn and 20,000km2 of it's surrounding area. It is run by 180 professionally trained voluntary personnel, who between them specialise in lifeboat and swift water rescue, rope rescue, flood response, casualty care and missing persons deployments.

Harry will join Tewkesbury's operational crew at the sharp-end as a member of the land-search crew. The bulk of Tewkesbury's deployments are at the request of Gloucestershire Police for the location and recovery of High Risk Missing Persons.

As a charity which relies wholly upon public goodwill, members of the crew are encouraged to fundraise in their own time (in addition to training and deployments!)

Each SARA deployment can cost the organisation up to £1,000. SARA has remained operational throughout Covid-19, responding to over 100 separate incidents in 2020. But our fundraising has been significantly hampered this year. 

To support the Station and to keep us operational, Annie and Edie had the brilliant idea of walking between SARA's Sharpness Lifeboat Station to Gloucester Docks, a distance of 16.2 miles! For an adult, this would normally take 5 hours - for people with little legs, it'll take twice that!

Please support Annie and Edie in their walk. The money raised will go to Harry's Station and will keep us operational. It will contribute to a huge range of things we need, such as the maintenance and replenishment of our equipment and vehicles, Crew PPE, medical equipment, new stretchers and other casualty care equipment, better radios, more search lamps, and a thousand other things that we need to keep us operational.