India Hope has set up 35 orphanages and schools which care for more than 6500 children. The charity receives no government funding. Although their school year should have started on 1st June, this has been delayed due to the on-going Covid crisis. There is an urgent need of funds to ensure the children have the clothing and supplies needed for them to start the next school year. Education is such an important part in any child’s life and it is especially important in India so that they can give each child the foundations to find work and have a career. Many of their pupils go on to train at the technical or nursing college that the charity also runs, and in turn they help and give back to the charity that supported them.

We are raising funds by walking the Coast to Coast. The footpath begins in St Bees on the West coast and runs over Lakeland fells, through Swaledale and over the Yorkshire moors to reach Robin Hood's Bay on the East coast. If we don't add on too many miles by getting lost, the walk is just over 190 miles and involves just short of 20,000 feet of ascent. We are aiming to complete it in 14 days.