2020 Fun Walk Press Pack PUBLISHED2019 JANUARY 2021 Contents

Event Announcement P.1

Our thanks go to Pre-Event Coverage P.2 our generous sponsors who Event Coverage P.3 helped make 2020 such an Post-Event Coverage P.4 amazing year! Event Announcement 2020 SPONSORS:

 Anisha Grange Care Home  Butyl Products Group  IFE Global Logistics  Leonardo UK  McDonald's Restaurants  Swan Housing Association  Tunnelcraft

and Others

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Coverage

Pre-Event Coverage

85We Organisations are delighted registeredthat the 2020 with Fun an estimatedWalk event 1,400 participants.coverage included multiple articles on social media, local newspapers and community websites. Many were previous participants but weThe also Fun reached Walk severalwas also new featured organisationson Phoenix FMs this year. Eat My Brunch Show with an interview with John Baron: https://www.phoenixf m.com/2020/07/08/vi rtual-fun-walk/

The Fun Walk was also featured on Phoenix FM’s

Eat My Brunch Show with an interview with John Baron, the Chair of The Fun Walk Trustees: https://www.phoenixf m.com/2020/07/08/vi rtual-fun-walk/

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Event Coverage

We were delighted by the wonderful photos and posts shared by participating organisations.

“We missed not being able to attend in person, but our families all enjoyed taking part. We actually added up the distance we collectively travelled and between the SNAP staff and our families we reached Lapland!” SNAP

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Post-Event Coverage

Echo Newspaper - December 24th 2020

In total over £103,000 was raised by the 2020The Fun 2020 Walk. Fun Walk raised over £103,000 for charities and local good causes. Over £1,200,000 has been raised since the Fun Walk started in 2002. Over £1,200,000 has been raised since the Fun

Walk started in 2002.

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Many local 2020 Beneficiaries: charities & good causes benefited Motivated Minds from the 2020 Barrow Farm Riding for the Disabled Fun Walk. Basildon Borough Heritage Society NEW CITY GIRLS WI Basildon Borough Twinning Association Page Woods Trust Basildon Girls Rugby Peter Pan Preschool

Basildon Hockey club Phoenix FM “Your generosity will Basildon Hospital Radio (BHR87.7) Quilters Schools ensure that we can Basildon Mind Rainbow Preschool continue to offer Basildon PHAB club REACH (Rehabilitation, Education and Assessment support to autistic Community Housing Association Centre for Hippotherapy) & RDA Group) children and their Billericay Educational Trust Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary families, throughout Billericay Mayflower Twinning Association Rotary Club of Billericay this particularly Billericay Street Pastors Royal British Legion Billericay Branch difficult year. Thank Billericay Town Twinning Sarah Kitchener Perrow Fund Supporter Group of Brain Tumour Charity you.” Blind and Sight Impaired Society (BASIS) Schools Ministry Billericay BOSP - Brighter Opportunities for Special People SNAP (Special Needs and Parents) Takiwātanga Brainwave St John's Car Park Fund Support Services Brentwood Catholic Children's Society St Luke's Hospice Brentwood Sea Cadet Unit St. Anne Line Catholic Junior School Carers First St. Martins of Tours Basildon “We would like to Changing Pathways Sunnymede Preschool pass on our thanks Chelmsford and District Diabetes UK Voluntary Group Takiwatanga Support Services to all the sponsors of Childhood Eye Cancer Trust The Friends of St Peters Billericay Christ Church Billericay the event. Now more The Royal National Lifeboat Association Epilepsy Action Essex Forum than ever every The Ladybirds Song group Essex Community Development donation really does The listening post C.I.C Essex Well Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Group go a long way in Tilbury FC youth FC Redwing Youth U15 Langdon United YFC helping us support Fish 4 life Angling Academy Wickford Majorettes local families who Gateway 978 Wickford Town Carnival have a child or GOSH young person with Grapevine Essex any special need or Havens Hospices disability.” Hearing Help Essex Home-Start Essex SNAP Intersports Youth FC U17 Laindon and District Community Archive Lance Corporal Nicky Mason Memorial Fund

“Participating in The Langdon Hills Estate Residents Association Fun Walk will enable Manor Mission Church us to continue with Mayflower Performing Arts the much-needed John Baron MP with the BBW CVS Team in 2019 Children and Young People’s services within our crisis refuge.” CIO Charity No. 1151626 MEMORIAL Trustee Chairman: John Baron MP Managed by Basildon, Billericay & Wickford Council for Voluntary Service (BBWCVS), CHANGING The George Hurd Centre, Audley Way, Basildon, Essex. SS14 2FL PATHWAYS Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.thefunwalktrust.co.uk Tel: 01268294125

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In Memory of Tony Page

Tony Page with John Baron MP

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Tony Page, one of The Fun Walk Trust’s Trustees. Tony served the charity with great distinction – he was incisive and constructive in his suggestions, shared a good sense of humour, and fundamentally believed in the concept of public service. He was also a good friend, and we shall miss him.

We have conveyed our condolences to the family and are thinking of them.

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