“Freeze Your Bits and Bobs Off”

Sponsored Bra and Pants Walk in aid of Breast Cancer Now and PROSTaid

Sunday 12th January 2025 at 10am

Strut Your Stuff

through Bradgate Park – 3 miles approx

OPEN TO MEN AND WOMEN

Have you ever wanted to make a difference in your community to help local people?

New Year’s Resolution - Make a Difference!

With the end of 2024 fast approaching why not plan ahead and make a New Year’s Resolution to make a difference in your area?

After our successful “Freeze Your Bits Off” Bra Walk in January this year we’re back bigger and better in 2025 with our “Freeze Your Bits and Bobs Off” Bra and Pants Walk in aid of Breast Cancer Now and our local Prostate Cancer Charity PROSTaid.

It only costs £10 to register your entry and hopefully you will raise sponsorship from your friends and family to make a real difference.

The 3-mile walk will take place at Bradgate Park (from the Newtown Linford entrance) on Sunday 12th January 2025. The event will start at 10.00am and finish by 1.00pm, so you can walk at your own pace, with up to 3 hours to complete the 3-mile route.

Strut Your Stuff

We are expecting the weather to be very cold (after all it will be the middle of winter!) so we suggest wearing your beautifully decorated bras and pants on the outside of your coats. Unless you really want to “Freeze Your Bits and Bobs Off”! Wear your bra and pants whichever way you wish.

The Causes – Breast Cancer Now and PROSTaid

Breast Cancer Now are there to change the lives of people affected by breast cancer. How? By combining the powers of research and support. Their world class researchers are working in labs across the UK and Ireland to create a world where the words ‘breast cancer’ aren’t met with fear and to build a brighter future for everyone affected by breast cancer. And, because over 600,000 people are living with or beyond the disease, Breast Cancer Now are there with their support for today too.

Bradgate Rotary Club was motivated to support this cause after two of its members were diagnosed with breast cancer and were treated at the Breast Care Centre in Glenfield, who benefited from the proceeds of last year’s event which raised over £16000. This will fund teaching aids, a mammography chair as well as making the unit more welcoming and calming to its visitors.

Prostate cancer usually develops quietly over a number of years, often with no symptoms. Although sometimes found in men in their 40’s it is mostly diagnosed in men in their 50’s and 60’s. Unfortunately sometimes it will by then have spread out of the prostate gland. It is therefore very important to get men checked out from the age of 50 in order to detect the cancer early before it has spread. This makes treatment easier, less invasive and more successful. Not all men will suffer with prostate cancer but over 47,700 are diagnosed annually. That’s around 130 every day. Again, Bradgate Rotary was inspired to aid the local Prostate Cancer Charity, PROSTaid, when family members and friends were diagnosed with, or bereaved due to, the disease.

The Route

Starting just inside the main gates of the Bradgate Park entrance at Newtown Linford you will follow the tarmac covered road to the far end, Hallgates car park, near Cropston, and return. All in all, it’s just over 3 miles.

On the route you will pass the dramatic rock face on your left and on your right is the area known as Little Matlock with the River Lin flowing through the pools and weirs. The area attracts an abundance of wild birds including ducks, swans, egrets and herons.

Looking to your left you will get occasional glimpses of the War Memorial and views of the iconic Old John Tower.

You will pass the ruins of the ancestral home of the 9-day Queen, Lady Jane Grey - look and listen out for the resident peacocks! You will undoubtedly see some of the Park’s large stock of deer and the majestic stags on your way. You will pass the Deer Barn Tea Rooms, the free-to-enter Visitor Centre and of course toilets.

Continuing the walk you will get lovely views of Cropston Reservoir and pass Memorial Wood before reaching the half-way point of Hallgates car park which also has toilets available.

During your return to the finish at Newtown Linford you might like to take a short rest utilising one of the 6 wooden benches that were donated with funds from Bradgate Rotary Club, thanks to our successful production of the annual Bradgate Park Calendar.

You will be greeted at the finish with a packed goody bag and some well deserved refreshments.

In the event of adverse weather conditions, we may need to postpone the walk to a more suitable day.