A proper 'Heads' up - please donate.

Soldato
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Hi all

During this summer, after they finish their exams, my brother and his friend Matthew will be walking the entire Ulster Way. This equates to about 1000km and covers the whole of Ulster, north and south of the border. It will take them 6 weeks and they are planning to do this continuously until they are finished. They are both well prepared and are getting equipment help from a few local sources, but if anyone was able to provide more I'm sure it would be appreciated.

They are doing this walk both to achieve being the first people to successfully walk the whole of the new Ulster Way continuously, and to raise money for charity. The charity that they are raising money for are called Headway. They work with people who have suffered brain injurys from all kinds of causes. A motivation that my brother Simon had was when my mother was taken ill with a brain tumour, and during her last year she received a lot of help from the organisation, both providing care and support alongside other cancer charities and also providing the family with help on how to deal with the loss of brain power that she had. They are a fantastic charity.

Their website: http://www.headway.org.uk

I would ask any of you that can to donate to this worthwhile cause, and my brother and his mate will be doing a blog and regular updates, through a local paper and probably on their own, so I will be able to keep you all updated as it progresses. Also there will be a chance for all of you that have never been to Ulster to see photographs of the fantastic country that we have over here and some of the sights that are both on and off the beaten track.

The website for donations is: http://www.justgiving.com/ulsterwaywalk


My thanks to you all, and I will bump and update this thread as they near the start of their walk.
 
Well time to bump this properly, as I will a few times as we get pics etc up. Simon and Matthew start tomorrow at 9.30am in Lisburn and will be walking for the next 5 - 6 weeks. They're all ready to go and tomorrow I will update the site with a picture and information on their offline sponsorship. I will try and keep you all updated at various stages.

Here is a map of the Ulster way for more information on the vast and varied landscapes of the province that they will be walking through:

http://www.walkni.com/ulsterway/

They are sleeping rough most nights, I think they've 5 or 6 dates that they have accomodation when they expect to finish walking within larger towns and not be able to camp. We will be in regular contact and have route cards that will be updated if they over or under walk a day.

Please do sponsor Simon and Matthew as it is a worthy cause. Apart from the website charge that the charity paid 100% of the money raised goes to Headway. Everything that they needed, food, equipment, boots etc. was either donated or they bought with their own money. They have raised around £2000 as yet.
 
Well site updated - They're on day 4, both pretty tired, getting bad chaffing (sp?) and sore feet but I think they're doing ok!

PLEASE DONATE guys, it's for a great cause!

Hopefully they'll be on UTV at some stage and they're getting an update on the radio today in a while.
 
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