Walk the Thames 2011
February 19th & 20th
Led by
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers President of the Supreme Court of England & Wales
Sponsored by
Walking 40 miles in darkest February To raise funds for London’s legal advice charities
Teams so far registered include :- 25 Bedford Row, Allen & Overy, Berrymans Lace Mawer, Birbeck School of Law, BPP Law School, Child & Child, Clyde & Co., CMS Cameron McKenna, The College of Law, Eversheds, GLS, Gray’s Inn, Hodders, Hodge Jones & Allen, The Law Commission, National Pro Bono Centre, Linklaters, McDermott Will & Emery, SNR Denton, The University of Portsmouth, Wragge & Co. 5 legal agency teams and the Trust’s own team
The walk is supported by:
The LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST, 40 Alexandra Road , Epsom Surrey KT17 4BT Tel: 01372 810466 [email protected] www.londonlegalsupporttrust.org.uk PRESIDENT: The Rt. Hon the Lord Judge PATRONS: The Rt. Hon Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, The Rt. Hon. the Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Cherie Booth Q.C. Registered Charity No: 1101906
Walk the Thames 2011 6 weeks to go
News
Hello everyone
New teams joining this week include Wragge & Co whose team include one person running one day and another running both days!
The number of walkers has reached 250 as Wragge’s joined in, the Colleges started booking walkers and Clyde and Co somehow whizzed from a few walkers to 34!
New teams will join over the next five weeks and we are on the Roll on Friday blogs now :
http://www.rollonfriday.com/Blogs/ReadBlog/tabid/144/Id/774/Default.aspx
Apologies to Clyde’s whose team grew after RoF called, otherwise they would have got a mention.
Every walker you recruit produces more funds for these charities
Every penny you raise this year is vital. So please do your very best.
It was also great that some serious fundraising started this week. Many thanks to SNR Denton for sponsoring their team (subject of course to the walkers doing the walk!) and to CMS Cameron McKenna and Birbeck School of Law for getting their walkers raising sponsorship. So far, the walk has raised £3,000
Please remember your team may include anyone in your firm, chambers, college or organisation, not just the lawyers and we welcome any family, friends or external colleagues who wish to join your team.
Start walking from here
Footwear
Don’t wear new boots or shoes. Those are almost guaranteed to give you blisters very early on.
Last year walkers felt that softer walking shoes or trainers were best for day one on pavements. On the second day sturdier walking boots would be better along the gravel and mud paths past Putney
Here is a link to the type of socks which will be best for the walk: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?PartnerID=79&ModelID=18123
These types of socks can be found in most sports shops, the most important factor is that they contain "CoolMax" fibres which help to prevent blisters.
Another tip would be to pour talcum powder into the shoes before walking, this also helps to prevent blisters.
Look after your feet and the walk will be fun
"Walk the Thames was my favourite weekend of the year"
Kate Jump- Mayer Brown
The route
Vijay has not been idle over Christmas and after extensive research has chosen the Whistle & Flute pub in Putney High Street as the end point for day 1. you can see where we are going at:-
Day 1 - http://www.walk4life.info/walk/walk-thames-2011-day-1-0
Day 2 - http://www.walk4life.info/walk/walk-thames-2011-day-2
And walk past this
On the day walkers will have detailed maps . For now here is the description:-
Starting at the Thames Barrier (South Side we walk to the tunnel to the Isle of Dogs
Nipping on to the Isle of Dogs cuts out a loop of the river and some boring bits. Exit the Isle back on to the South bank and then it’s Thames path (South side) all the way to Putney Bridge where we turn right and end at the Whistle and Flute pub in Putney High Street. That is close to Putney Railway Station and not far from East Putney and Putney bridge tube stations.
On day two we will start at Putney Bridge by the rowing club (Thames path South side again – just West of the Bridge) and take the Thames path all the way until we cut up to Richmond Park and do a loop of the Park before going down the hill in to Richmond and finishing at the Orange Tree pub near Richmond station (BR and tube).
Start times Day 1 is scheduled to start at 8.30 a.m. . We will be at the Thames Barrier cafe from about 8.00 and we will remain there until about 9.30 a.m. . You don’t have to wait for everyone to arrive before starting off.
You’ll walk through Wandsworth Park on Day 1 this year
Day 2 you get a lie in and we schedule the start at 9.00. Again we will be there half an hour in advance of the scheduled time and stay for an hour after.
The fundraising
Each team will have a fundraising page on the Walk section of the Trust’s web area at Virgin Money Giving. (we’ve moved from Just Giving to save money) Very keen fundraisers are welcome to establish their own page there but any team member can use the team page and ask everyone they know to sponsor them online through that page.
We also provide each walker with paper sponsorship forms. That is because not all walkers will like asking people to sponsor online and not all funders like online giving.
However, it is easiest for everyone if as much fundraising as possible is done through the online pages. Virgin do all the gift aid reclaims for us on online donations and so online donations save us a lot of work both in gift aid claims and in chasing up for funds after the walk.
Where you use the paper form please ensure that you get the HOME address of the sponsor. We can’t claim the 28.2% gift uplift without the full name and HOME address of your sponsors. You don’t have to have all sponsors on one form. A form can have one name or lots. You could send in a separate form with each donation if necessary. Use as many forms as you need to. So you can have them going round more than one place at a time.
Top tip: when raising funds offline ask the sponsor to give you the sponsorship when they agree to sponsor. If you have to see them all after the walk it takes ages and is a real pain .
Finally, we set no fundraising minimum for walkers and just ask everyone to do their best at getting lots of sponsorship but if you really can’t bring yourself to ask people for sponsorship it would be great if you can sponsor yourself for at least £25 so the Trust at least makes a little bit on you walking.
Just a few of the Linklaters’ team preparing to walk in 2010
The funds you raise will really make a difference Please everyone – do your very best
Mary Ward Legal Centre help thousands of people with debt and housing problems each year. They are moving. The move will enable them to have more volunteers, help many more people and pay less rent. The capital cost of doing up the new office and moving is large but great long term value. The Mary Ward’s move is just one of the great causes that Walk the Thames will support.
Who can enter the walk ? Anyone can walk in Walk the Thames. While teams will come from legal entities, those teams can contain anyone that the team invites. Friends, family, external colleagues are all welcome to join in.
Those who don’t fit in to any other category can walk in the London Legal Support Trust’s own team.
First aid & Insurance First aid on the walk is provided by St. John Ambulance first aiders on push bikes. There will be a mobile number provided to call in a bike to any injury. Public Indemnity insurance for all of the legal walks in England and Wales in 2011 is funded by the Access to Justice Foundation.
Walking on one day
If anyone want to walk on just the Saturday, or just the Sunday, it is fine. Just let me know and of course the person has to make clear to their sponsors what they are doing.
Runners
Incredibly a couple of people did run the walk last year. That is not a problem. Again just tell me you are doing that and you won’t be hanging around at the end point with no one to meet you.
Cyclists I have already been asked if people can cycle and of course we don’t mind that. Our public indemnity insurance is for walking though. So cyclists would have to sign an indemnity.
Our walk leader The Rt. Hon the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers- President of the Supreme Court
The cause
2011 will be a dreadful year for legal advice agencies and for the people who rely on those agencies for access to justice.
Law Centres and specialist legal advice agencies provide their services through a mixture of legal aid funding, local authority funding and charitable donations .
The agencies make a huge difference to people’s lives, reducing debt, poverty and homelessness, and combating discrimination and injustice.
The Government propose to remove several areas of social welfare law from the legal aid scheme including:- Benefits, Debt , Employment and non-asylum immigration.
In addition the Government have cut support to Local Authorities and those cuts are being passed on through cuts in grants to the voluntary sector. By the end of 2011 over £2million of funding will have been lost to London’s legal advice centres even if legal aid is not cut at all.
Without our help agencies will close. In 2011. Even with our help some will go but it is our aim to maintain as many of the best services as we can.
It may seem that the funds you can raise through walking, or even through organising a whole team, will make little difference. However, we are raising funds through many schemes and events and added together they will make a difference.
You will make a difference Please do your very best
Drinks and Chips at the end of each day – Thank you BPP!
There is no minimum or maximum number for a team There is no minimum sponsorship level We just ask that team organisers and walkers all do their best
Walk the Thames 2011 teams at January 15th
Walk Leader Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
Senior walkers Nina Ali partner Hodge Jones & Allen Rupert Cowen partner SNR Denton Paul Keleher QC 25 Bedford Row Susie Labinjoh partner Hodge Jones & Allen Kathryn Ludlow partner Linklaters Paul Mendelle QC joint head of chambers 25 Bedford Row Mark Nichols partner CMS Cameron McKenna Joanna Page partner Allen & Overy Andrew Sulston partner Allen & Overy
All teams with walkers 25 Bedford Row Paul Mendelle QC Jacky Chase Tope Adeyemi Sophie Johnson Paul Keleher QC
Allen & Overy Joanna Page Andrew Sulston Alex Hiendl Louise Fisher Mary Tonkin Maria Shanthi Vignasen Prashanthy Shankar Victoria Bramall Nisha Majid May Chiu Richard White Leigh-Anne Males Gary Mitcalfe Ben Ogden Emma Shaw
Berrymans Lace Mawer Beata Lis Martin Fox Emma Tindall Sarah Brown Paul Bartlett Ben Jones Kayleigh Rhodes Sarah Spalding
Birbeck School of Law Steve Starling Steve Starling Matthew Weait John Cann Will Barnes Danya Byfield Carla Louis Negus Steven Allen Joanna Richardson Paula Shonuga Samantha Harrison Sotera Fanklin Alero Dabor Christine Machingawuta Samuel Pentony Leena Marie Aula Beverley Livingstone Jalloh Chernor Lily Chen Shahib Romie
BPP Law School Marina Kapour Laura Gerrard Koim Tschoe Craig Bruce James Mcnamara Jennifer Hanna Faris Abdel-hadi Jessica Vella Amy Fullerton Ata Nazarov Nicholas Spickernell Artemis D'arcy Zeenat Mansoor Justin Joshi
Brent Private Tenants Rights group Gary Cornforth
Child & Child Lubna Islam
Clyde & Co Paul Newdick* Michael Allen Geraint Bevan Kevin Butterill* Dan Catchpole* Ben Chandler Alix Cook Amy Cook* Christopher Cowland Catriona Dowie Emma Fretwell* Siobhan Hards* Laura Hingley Alexis Holden Sharon Jewkes Yan Jiang* Cheeko Khan Christopher Leadbetter Annie Loughran* Sarah Loughran* Anna McGown Phil Norton Melissa Pereira* Fleur du Pre David Prior Danielle Rickett* Alexandra Saj* Samuel Sharp Wei Song* Emma Stuart Philip Tyler Nicola Vinorvski* Gillian Waugh Louise Williams
CMS Cameron McKenna Mark Nichols Robert Powell
College of Law Vijay Ray-Chaudhuri Eda Seyhan Abdullah Kahloon Deeba Mufti Helen Citron Alexander Grafe Rajiv Dalal Anna Hindmarsh
Eversheds Richard Leather, Kie Kojima Natalie Limbasan Philip Becker Jess Burns Steph Nelson
Government Legal Services Victoria Harper-Ward
Gray’s Inn Sean Campbell Matthew Seys-Llewellyn
Hodders Rachel Falconer
Hodge Jones & Allen Trish McClusky Alexander Hulbert Amol Dhanoa Caroline Collins Daniel Fitzpatrick Hannah Britz Henna Elahi Karlene Melhado Hayley Evans Graham Cliff Victoria Chatterton Charlotte Denley Leticia Ison-Jacques* Melissa Jennings Nicholas Dent Nina Ali Sam Neave Senel Yildirimbora Trudy Morgan Jawad Malik Alison Vaughan Susie Labinjoh* Claire Gallagher Perveen Malik Ed Kirton-Darling*
The Law Commission Judy Fu
Linklaters Aalia Datoo Jacqueline Ingram Jacqueline Chaplin Lauren Clark Alexandra Stableforth Julian Ensbey Sophia Berry Teresa Kelly Kathryn Ludlow Katherine Henderson Laura Rees-Evans Michael Graham Scarlett Theiri George Lionis Aditi Mittal Jonathan Swift Justen Bersin Hannah Patterson
London Legal Support Trust Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
McDermott Will & Emery Rob Lundie-Smith Anna White Simone Goligorsky
Mary Ward Legal Centre Ceri Williams Elvia Carvalho Fatima Carvalho Eleanor Quilter Caro Millington Marianne Fenney
Milestone Tax Paulina Spencer
National Pro Bono Centre Sarah Cox Kathie Clark Chris Hurren Richard Harrison Alison Ingram Struan MacKenzie Joanna Venkov Carl Selby Rachael Agnew
Release Kirsty Douse Naimh Eastwood Nadia Salam Greg Pospodinis Marie Nougier
SNR Denton Rupert Cowen Amy Clarkson Jennifer Neil Harriet Fetcher Max Moore Sanjarbek Abdukhalilov Lisa Ardley Melanie Blanchard Michaela Boughton Debbie Brown Kerry Gill Brian Hoskin Nick Kirton Manal Tabbara Monty Verdi Beth Waller Kasia Waller Michael Humphris Karen Brown Sean Crowley Jenny Munn Victoria Rudge Tracy Harrington Paulina Spencer Claire Chester Tara Skinner Kim Smart Cheryl McMillan Derryn Pearson Mark Trotman
South West London Law Centres Laura Turner Michael Ashe Janet Bishop Bushra Sangameheri
Surrey Law Centre Amelia Beringer Emily Ingram Clemmie Gaisman Victoria Brown Elisa Hayashi Sonali Popat
Rhiannon Edwards Victoria Jenkins George Gray Grace Gray Ben Sareen Sarah Williams Keith Bates
Tower Hamlets Law Centre Sue Brown Lesley Johnson
University of Portsmouth Students Union (UPSU) Rob Dalford Craig McColl Rachel Shingles Natalie Hornsby Nikita Beech Dennis Watson Catherine James Chris Patten Alex Hasbani Md. Ashiqui Amin Khan
Wragge & Co Alison Rivers Katherine Harris* Jocelyn Watson Lynsey Cox Carol West Fiona Dunlop
The famous view from Richmond Hill- almost finished when you see this