NEWSLETTER 2025
CHARITY WALKS 2025 - Marking the 25th Anniversary of walking for Cornwall Hospice Care.
THEME
I Can Walk 5,000 miles!
An effort to walk every day and create charity events each month.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
- Promote the Cornish Pilgrimage as a potential new national route established in honour of Cornwall Hospice Care.
- Invite the public to walk a section with me each month (or whenever appropriate).
- Ask local pubs in these regions to help raise funds by hosting a community event/charity auction or generally help/contribute. Collection boxes can be delivered by the hospice.
INTERNATIONAL WALKS - 1st Expedition
A Pilgrimage to Santiago along the North Coast of Spain via Asturias and Galicia (also highlighting Prostate Cancer and supporting CHC).
Possible walk in Australia will be considered as an Autumn project.
LOCAL WALKS
Sunday leisure walks will start again at some stage (£1 per head). A small group of us have done a couple already, although the emphasis this year will be on doing the local charity walks throughout the Spring and Summer Bank Holidays. You can register for these walks on the day for a fee of £10, the payment of which goes to Cornwall Hospice Care.
Local Charity Walks include:
The St Piran’s Trail
(Easter Sunday this year).
A 6-mile walk starting from either St Piran’s Church, Carharrack or The Old Church,
St Day. Beyond the village, the journey follows an off-road course to Treskerby, Mount Ambrose and Vogue.
The Gwennap Pilgrimage
We will be doing this walk on May Spring Bank Holiday Sunday and again in Mid-October
The 10-mile walk takes in most of the Gwennap Region, usually starting at the Fox&Hounds Car Park. However, many of us begin the walk from St Piran’s Church in Carharrack.
The St Day Feast Walk
Starting at the Star Inn on the Sunday before Feast Day, the 6-mile route takes in Pink Moors, Scorrier and the Portreath Tramroad.
We will advertise these walks on Facebook at the start of each month confirming dates and showing times and venues.
WALKING THE CORNISH PILGRIMAGE
In addition to the Gwennap Pilgrimage, we will be walking each section of this trail over the course of a few weekends throughout the Summer months. I will then traverse it all in September as a complete walk.
On each occasion over the weekend meetings, We will invite members of the public to join us on one of the legs and have a chance to experience this amazing journey. These walks will take place in the relevant areas of Cornwall, though in some cases, we may have to modify the walk so as to start/finish at the same point.
Posts about these walks will be made on the appropriate Charity Facebook Pages.
UK WALKS FOR CORNWALL HOSPICE CARE
During the year, I’d like to do some other way-marked walks. I walked around the British Isles many years ago when there weren’t so many designated foot paths, so I’m intrigued to check out some of these. Hadrian’s Wall, Anglesey and the Kings Way are walks will be scheduled at some stage.
I will publish a daily diary to highlight my progress on each walk and offer the public an opportunity to support Cornwall Hospice Care via a justgiving page below.
In this difficult time of recession, I will only ask for £1 contributions per sponsor!
OTHER EVENTS
May - Isle of Wight Walk with Charlie Chaplin (Barmy Army friend, Colin Bloomfield) - 12th May. The Isle of Wight is home to my mother’s side of the family and I have pledged a walk in honour of their local hospice.
THE OUNDLE PILGRIMAGE SUE RYDER WALK
I’ll be walking the Oundle Pilgrimage Route 1 - Sue Ryder Trail (18 miles) on Friday on 8th August if any one wishes to join me.
Otherwise, We will be walking Route 2 -"Historic Village and Church Route" (16 miles) on Saturday 9th August for Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall. There are other alternative routes (including a cycle route)for those who want to set up their own itinerary or walk both of the larger trails as a weekend challenge.
A justgiving page will be made available in the Summer and we encourage all-comers to join us for a great day out! You can register on the day for a fee of £10 which will be collected by Sue Ryder volunteers stationed at the Farmers Market and Co-op. Booklets and Passports to walk can be downloaded from my website.
Other useful information and GPX maps for most of the Routes can be found at:
LATEST BOOK TITLES
WALKING THE GRAND UNION CANAL
This intercity walk gives an insight into life along the river bank which owes much of its existence to the Industry Revolution.
Follow the journey through idyllic countryside interspersed by quaint old villages, once served by the ‘power houses’ borne from that golden age.
To be released this month - available at The Star Inn, Vogue;
The Fox & Hounds, Comford.
And as an E-Book from my website.
A COMPLETE WALK OF NEW ZEALAND
Will be available from my website as an
E-Book only (apart from National libraries & Universities). However, the original publication is still on sale locally.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
An Updated Cornish Pilgrimage Guide and Passport; plus a small section about the trail with route maps are available from this website.
The Cornish Pilgrimage website is under-going reconstruction but may still offer an interesting overview about the journey.
To Support Robin Moore’s Effort this year please visit his justgiving page:
