Emily's Trek for Central London Samaritans

Participants: Hazel Millard, Clare Smyth, Eve McMahon, Celine Haines
Participants: Hazel Millard, Clare Smyth, Eve McMahon, Celine Haines
Lake District Ultra Challenge 2022 · 11 June 2022 to 12 June 2022 ·
Hello friends,
Thanks for visiting my trek fundraising page!
In June, along with 4 friends, I'm walking 50km in a day as part of the Lake District Challenge to raise money for Central London Samaritans.
I'm very lucky to have volunteered at Samaritans for around 8 years now which has given me lots of opportunity to see how much the charity can help people, and how important this branch is to the London community.
Our branch is run completely on fundraising - we don't get any money from the central Samaritans charity and everyone providing support is a volunteer. We (famously) answer the phones, but we also provide an email service, webchat, listen face-to-face, do outreach in prisons and at other places around London - and we couldn't do any of it without donations!
Some fun stats:
Each year CLS' approx. 400 volunteers:
The money you give goes straight to keeping our lovely branch open - covering the costs of maintaining the building, the IT and phone system, and providing the other resources we need to keep supporting people.
It costs around £400,000 a year to run our branch! So please sponsor me today to help make what will undoubtedly be a blister-filled walk worthwhile.
Emily xxx
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