WOLFORDS' VILLAGE NEWS

 

Les Cass would like to the everyone for their generous support of this appeal in the Little Wolford area in 2007.  £161.26 was raised, the most ever collected in the 60 years in which Les & his late wife have been selling poppies.

 

 

 

We announced last year David's intention to walk the length of the Greenwich Meridian to Lourdes in France.  His intention was to raise money for the Orbis International Flyng Eye Hospital which carries out operations in the Third World.  He was aiming to walk 20 miles a day and sleep under the stars.  He would also walk up and down Brighton Pier to substitute for the channel crossing.

 

David completed the walk satisfactorily abd returned, non the worse for his endeavours, to Great Wolford on 18th August having walked in excess of 860 miles.

 

Congratulations on this achievement David!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From  July 10th 2007, Matthew Dunsby & Dick Goodman (both from Great Wolford), Andy Walker, Mike Anslow & Mark Dunsby, (all from Aston Cantlow), undertook the task of walking the "Shakespeare Way" footpath, which runs from the Shakespeare Birthplace at Stratford to the Globe Theatre in London, to raise funds for the Shakespeare Hospice in Stratford upon Avon

 

There are significant links between the hospice and all of the walkers, and Matthew and Mark dedicated the achievement to their father Tony (from Aston Clinton) who sadly lost his battle with a longstanding illness in February.  The Shakespeare Hospice not only provided dedicated care for Tony but continues to offer care and support for his widow Margaret.

 

About £7400 was raised for the cause.

 

Well  done Matt.