How You Can Help

Thanks for your interest in the walk. Hopefully, you'll find one of the following means of contribution will resonate with you.

Walkers: This would be the most obvious choice. If you're keen to walk either or both days, we ask that you solicit financial sponsors for CHASE / Help an Angel. You are welcome to use the main fundraising page or create one of your own. Barring a huge interest in walking, there will be no required level of sponsorship. That said, we suggest £200 as an individual fundraising target. We also encourage you to enroll a loved one on the support team (see below) to ensure any needs you have on the walk are met quickly and comfortably.

Support Team: Walking 28 miles over 2 days is no easy feat, and the support team helps walkers accomplish the task more easily and happily. By meeting the walkers at certain checkpoints, the team provides food, drink, clean clothes, first aid supplies, and, most importantly, moral support . Each waker will have a designated support team member, who will also serve as the walker's emergency contact throughout the event. Serving on the support team will require a car to ensure timely check point access along with an all-day commitment on either (or both) days. Support team members are welcome to support more than one walker, but we suggest you limit it to two or three.

Promotion: What's an event without a logo, proper website, flyers, and T-shirts? Pretty lame, that's what! Unfortunately, Colin has very little visual creative talent and needs all the help he can get in this area. We also need people to help produce and distribute flyers for the Saturday night gig. If you have a journalism background, you could write some great press releases for us. What else can we do to make this event look really, really cool?

Raffle / Silent Auction Prizes: - Can you get your hands on any really cool collectibles (autographed books/jerseys? limited edition publications?) Can you offer an service: be it in entertainment, grooming, or something that appeals to the masses? Could you get a free night's stay at a nice B&B or hotel? How about a meal for two at a good restaurant? Anything you can donate could be a great money-maker on Saturday night.

Solciting Sponsorship: Of course, you're welcome to donate money directly, and we are extremely grateful for your generosity. What about your employer? Do you have any contacts with beverage or sports nutrition companies who could donate water or energy bars/drinks for the walkers? What about sportsgear or shoe manufacturers/retailers? There are lots of ways that these companies could contribute, and it's a nice tax break and good publicity for them. I'm sure the walkers would be grateful to get a free rub-down from a local massage school. What can you get for us?

End-of-Day Event Assistance: While the walk is obviously the main event, we've got a great night planned on Saturday and are looking to have a nice closing ceremony on Sunday as well. We need people who can arrive at the walk endpoints early to cheer walkers as they arrive, set up tables for the auction, sell raffle tickets, and do the little things to help make the end-of-day events run smoothly.

This list is by no means all-inclusive. If there's another way you'd like to contribute, please email me or post your ideas in a comment. Let us know your interests. If you want to be involved, we will find a way!