Walk 2007

 

BRIDGNORTH  SPONSORED  WALK

 

                           


 

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WALK 2007

 

Sponsorship Money Raised Exceeds £120,000

With the addition of £4,000 sponsorship money received since Presentation Evening, the total paid in for the 2007 Walk now exceeds £120,000.  Further payments to the respective teams' charities  have been made to repay the additional funds. 

Sponsorship Amounts Raised

Senior Walk :    £107,800

Junior Walk :    £12,200

The overall total beats the record of £115,000 raised in 2006. 

Both the Senior and Junior totals are also new records.

 

Numbers of Walkers

Number of teams :   96

 

Senior Walkers started :   989

Senior Walkers completing the course : approx. 950

 

Junior Walkers started :   246

All Juniors completed the course

 

Thank you and congratulations to all of those who took part in this year's Walk.  It has been another highly successful year in terms of sponsorship raised.  The Juniors deserve special mention as they raised considerably more money than ever before for the Junior Walk.

Race results and mystery finishing position prizewinners are on the Winners 2007 page. 

Full finishing positions for the Senior Walk can be found on the Senior Finishers page.  Junior Walk finishing positions can be found at Junior Finishers.

 

Thanks also to the many marshalls, tellers, helpers, Police and First Aiders, including the management and staff at Ditton Priors Village Hall and Bridgnorth Leisure Centre.  As always they played a vital part in making this year's Walk the organisational success that it was.

 

 

 

 

Charities Represented

The charities, schools, clubs and other organisations who benefited from the 2007 Walk are listed below. 

 

Charities etc. Receiving Donations

63 Bridgnorth Squadron ATC

Amnesty International

Anthony Nolan Trust

The Army Benevolent Fund

ASBAH (Spina Bifida)

BAOS Musical Theatre Company

Barnardo’s

Birmingham Children's Hospital

Birmingham Children's Hospital - Heart Unit

Brain Tumour UK

Breakthrough Breast Cancer

The Bridge Bar, Bridgnorth

The Bridge School, Stirchley

Bridgnorth & Claverley First Responders

Bridgnorth Africa Appeal

Bridgnorth Area Youth Orchestra

Bridgnorth Athletic Club

Bridgnorth Badminton Club

Bridgnorth Beavers

Bridgnorth Children’s Festival

Bridgnorth Community Bus

Bridgnorth Educational Special Needs Group

Bridgnorth Endowed School

Bridgnorth Hockey Club

Bridgnorth Hospital League Of Friends

Bridgnorth Lions

Bridgnorth Netball Club

Bridgnorth Rotary Club

Bridgnorth Rowing Club

Bridgnorth Rugby Club

Bridgnorth Spartans JFC

Bridgnorth Town Council – Mayor’s Charity of the Year

Bridgnorth Townswomen’s Guild

British Heart Foundation

Broseley Amateur Dramatic Society

Brown Clee Primary School

The Bylet Bowling Club

Cancer Research UK

Caroline England Elms Crocus Tribute Fund

Children of the Andes

Chorley Village Hall

Compton Hospice

Corbett CE School

Cornelia De Lange Syndrome

County Air Ambulance

Cure Leukaemia

Cystic Fibrosis Trust

Diabetes UK

Ditton Priors Parish Council – Brown Clee Toposcope Access

Ditton Priors Village Hall

Dorset Expeditionary Society (provides aid to Kenya)

Downs Syndrome Association

Enville Athletic Social Club

Enville Toddlers Group

Farlow / Oreton Play Area

Fire Service Benevolent Fund

Friends Of Castlefields Primary School

Friends Of Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge CE School

Friends Of Manormead

Friends Of Penn Hall

Green Park Special School, Bilston

Helping Hand

Highley Colliery Band

Highley First Responders

Hope House Children’s Hospice

Innage Lane Swimming Pool

Innage Monday & Wednesday Club

John Haywood Memorial Trust

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Lady Forester Day Care Centre, Broseley

Leukaemia Research

The Lingen Davies Cancer Centre Appeal

MacMillan Cancer Support

Meningitis Research Foundation

Meningitis Trust

Morville PCC Bell Fund

Morville School

Motor Neurone Disease Association

Much Wenlock Twinning Group

National Dog’s Trust

Northgate Swimming Club

NSPCC

Oak Farm

Orchid

Park Attwood Clinic

Parkinson’s Disease Society – Bridgnorth Branch

PDSA

Penny Brohn Cancer Centre

Perton Community Fund

Princess Royal Hospital Breast Cancer Research Fund

Prostate Cancer Research

Quatt Village Hall

Red Cross

RNLI

St. James Hall Church, Bridgnorth

St John’s Baptist Church, Ditton Priors

St John’s School, Bridgnorth

St Leonard’s Primary School, Bridgnorth

St. Mary’s Church Roof, Alveley

St. Mary’s Church, Bridgnorth

St. Mary’s Playgroup

St.Mary’s Youth / School, Bridgnorth

Save The Children

Severn Centre

Severn Hospice

Severndale School (Special Needs)

Shropshire Deaf Society

South Staffordshire First Responders

Spanna

Stacey’s Trust

Starlight Children's Foundation

Tasley Brownies

Telford Ice Skating Club

The Variety Club

Trust Lewis

Wheatland Hunt Pony Club

Wrekin Kids with Diabetes

Youth To Lourdes