Following their walk to the shrine of St Mary's at Cleator, Cumbria in 2023, Michael Donlan and Mark Ibison will continue their journeys this summer, firstly by walking 30 miles from St Peter's Cathedral, Lancaster to the shrine at Fernyhalgh near Preston, to arrive on the feast day of Our Lady of Fernyhalgh, Tuesday the 25th of June.

The second stage of the pilgrim journey, to start on the 1st of September, will see Mark cycling 235 miles over 4 days, from Preston to Our Lady's national shrine at Walsingham, Norfolk. He plans to meet the official Lancaster pilgrimage which has recently been re-instituted after a break of several years.

Michael and Mark are two trustees of the Rwanda Group Trust, a small Preston-based registered charity, founded by Joe Bamber who was an inspirational local schoolteacher.