High spirits on the sponsored walk...

17 mai 2011

A team of us from NDRC walked ten kilometres last night - completing the 7th London Legal Sponsored Walk to raise money for our advice services. The result so far: more than £3,000 of sponsorship. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to such a brilliant effort... If you haven't yet sponsored us, there's still time if you visit the Walk web page.

It was a great evening. The weather was good and it was so fun to have a chance to see other outside the Centre (when not so pressured) - as well as walk through London (from the Strand to Hyde Park and back again) on a beautiful summer evening. The photos speak for themselves...

Father Paul gathering his thoughts in the Cafe beforehand...

A rush to tidy up after the Monday Drop-In... and then get ready

Outside the Courts of Justice, point of departure. The T-shirts (printed with our new logo) are looking great - thank you, Chris!

Above: the team attracting some attention before we set off....

Reaching Horseguards... nowhere near halfway... Barbara Gehrels, Fiona Tremethick and Monica Alcazar.

On, looping around the Serpentine...

And back down across Green Park to Trafalgar Square and the Strand. All starting to feel relieved when we reached Chancery Lane and a drink (courtesy of Allen and Overy) within sight at the Law Society.

My photos start to become rather haphazard at this point...I am sure that others have better, and we can create a gallery. But there was a quite a crush at the bar...

Great to meet up with the others who had sped ahead and reached base long before us.

Spirits were high. Father Paul telling what looks like rather a tall story...

And a final group photo... (with some of the group in the frame)... We will put up a full gallery as soon as we've collected together everyone's shots. A great day - thank you again to everyone.