Marg Davies’ 100 Mile Inverness & Great Glen Way Walk 2022
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| Denise & myself |
I felt it was time to
redress the balance so this year’s walk is in Scotland - the flattest bit of
Scotland I could find - the Great Glen Way (plus an extra day’s walking to make
it up to 100 miles)
I intend to “bimble” around
Inverness on Friday 22nd April 2022 visiting Fort George, Cawdor
Estate and possibly Culloden which makes up the miles. My walk ‘proper’, along
the Great Glen Way, will start on Saturday 23rd April at Inverness.
I’ll walk approximately 80 miles of the Great Glen Way via Fort Augustus and
onto the finish in Fort William on Friday 28th April.
Each year my supporters
amaze and humble me with their generosity. I’m hoping to raise funds for two
charities again. The first is the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association, the
only veteran’s charity set up specifically to cater for the needs of female
veterans. Females are often the forgotten ‘heroes’ - forgotten by society in
general but also frequently under-resourced by ‘Veteran’ society as well. The
WRAC Association gives not only financial support to female army veterans but
also provides emotional support to a section of our community that often
suffers from isolation and loneliness. The WRAC Association is a safe haven
where female veterans can find the support and friendship that is often all
that is required to overcome their difficulties. My second is The National
Caribbean Memorial Charity, a very small not for profit charity run by
volunteers, whose aim is to commission a Monument for Caribbean Military &
Merchant Sea Personnel in the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, in
recognition of their contributions and sacrifices to Britain and the
Commonwealth.
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| I'm walking Right to Left on the Green Route |
This year, in view of the fact that I’m not getting any younger, I’ll be taking 7 days instead of the usual six. According to all the guidebooks most people start at Fort William and finish in Inverness. I contemplated that at first but, after looking at the profile of the walk I soon changed my mind. It seemed far more sensible to me to get the steep, nasty, ‘climby’ bit over and done with at the start when I’m fresher. And, when you look at the map, it strikes me that walking from north-east to south-west looks as if you’re walking downhill!!
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| I'll be walking the red line from Inverness to Fort William |
In the previous eight years I have raised funds via a VMG page; sadly that site no longer exists so I have had to find an alternative. This year I am using a 'Donate - Give as you Live' fundraising Page as it is the only one that supports raising funds for more than one charity at a time. Be assured that both these charities are registered with the Charity Commission.
( WRAC Assoc https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/206184 )
( TNCMC https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5097495 )
You can donate to my Donate:Give as you Live page at:
https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/marg-davies-100-mile-walking-challenge
