Raising money for Service By Emergency & Widowed & Young (WAY)
Let’s take a walk
What is Walk4Greg?
In 2022, in memory of my husband Greg Kingston, I completed the Lands End to John O’Groats virtual challenge, walking 1,084 miles. In April 2023 I successfully completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, a twenty-four-mile hike encompassing three major peaks in the Yorkshire Dales in just eleven hours. Since then, over three consecutive days I traversed the Sandlings Walk, a 58-mile route through the Suffolk countryside. Watch this space for news of my next challenge!
My chosen
charities
I have chosen two charities to raise funds for along the way, they are SERV Suffolk & Cambridgeshire and Widowed & Young (WAY).
SERV Suffolk & Cambridgeshire also known as the Bloodrunners, provides essential services to local NHS hospitals and the Air Ambulance, by transporting urgently needed blood products and other medical supplies. The charity is run by volunteers and is self-funded, with no government support.
Greg’s passion for the cause was made ever more poignant, knowing he received several blood transfusions following his accident.
Widowed & Young (WAY) is a UK charity that offers a peer-to-peer support network for anyone who has lost a partner before their 51st birthday – married or not, with or without children, inclusive of sexual orientation, gender, race, or religion.
WAY truly was and continues to be a lifeline for me, providing understanding, support & friendship from those who know what it is like to be widowed and grieve their life partner.
On 26th October 2022, the Greg Kingston SERVSC legacy bike was launched.
A fitting tribute on what would have been Greg’s 50th Birthday.
One of the last films we watched together was Wild, chronicling one woman’s one thousand- and one-hundred-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. Greg’s typical reaction was to add hiking the Pyrenees to our bucket list. I said couldn’t we start with Lands End to John O’Groats.