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Taking The Long Walk Home is a small group of friends and families from a school in Newport, South Wales, friends from the early 70's. We challenged ourselves a few years ago to walk the 870 miles of the Wales Coast Path, and we now have around 70 miles left to complete our epic task! Our walks started in May 2021, from the iconic Newport Transporter Bridge in year 2 of the pandemic. This year is very exciting as we plan to finish our walk, reaching our goal of 870 miles, by the time we reach our 70th birthdays! Fingers crossed!

Over the last 4 years, we have collected and donated over £11000 to such charities as Prostate Cancer, Huntingtons Disease Association, MS Society, British Heart Foundation and Parkinsons UK, all charities close to our thoughts. Our target for this year would make our total raised, since 2021, reach the incredible figure of £20000, including Gift Aid.

A big thank you to everyone who has chosen to support us.

This year we are raising funds in memory of the wonderful Anne Wilson, who was a friend to us all, and who very sadly passed away recently. Without her efforts, enthusiasm and organising, we would be a long way from finishing our challenge. She will be greatly missed by everyone who knew her.

We have chosen to support, in her honour, the mental health charity Mind in Gwent. This charity does important work helping people from our home area of Wales, helping overcome barriers, stigma, loneliness and isolation. This is going to be our final year of fundraising, and we always intended to raise money for our home town of Newport, in our last campaign. Each of us feels strongly the desire to make a difference to our home town, and mental health charities are more in the front line than ever before. Newport has a real need for support in forming a mentally healthy city, whether it is through wellbeing and counselling services for adults, or children and young people services. We hope our walking challenge can raise funds to help Newport achieve these goals.

We completed another part of the coast while staying near Barmouth in April 2025, and we are about to undertake another big section, around Carmarthen, in June, when we hope to cover 40 miles! This will bring us very close to completing our task.

Thanks again for your support. Let's hope we can reach the grand total of £20000 for all our charities combined!!