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The expedition has been postponed twice due to the Covid-19 pandemic so, for certainty, the charity has reimagined it in the UK, so they can still showcase the value of veterans and raise funds and awareness of veteran issues, especially in light of the recent withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan.

OP-REGEN is Walking With The Wounded’s (‘WWTW’) volunteer programme and throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, volunteers from across the country stepped up to support those who served and their local community.

The long-awaited Cumbrian Challenge, promised since 2019, has almost arrived and we can't wait to welcome our teams to the event, all 179 of them.

This year, Remember A Charity Week runs from 6 to 12 September.

In February 2021 Models for Heroes (M4H), in partnership with Walking With The Wounded, were awarded a grant through the AFCFT’s Positive Pathways Programme for their ‘Online Model Making for Veterans’ project.

In October a group of 19 runners will be heading out to the Sahara Desert to take part in the Marathon des Sables, one of the toughest endurance races in the world where participants will run 156 miles in 7 days. In the run up to the race, we are introducing you to some of the team. Next up we have Jamie Maker, Global Business Director for Hogarth Worldwide.

Walking With The Wounded are heading to the Lake District to host our annual flagship fundraising event, the Cumbrian Challenge. After the event’s postponement from last year due to covid, everyone is looking forward to a successful event, with hundreds of teams taking part in a covid-secure setting.

The past 18 months have been some of the toughest that we have gone through; individually, as a nation, and across the world. As a charity, we have seen first-hand how much the pandemic has changed the way we live.

So far, hundreds of Corporates and almost 200 teams have signed-up to hike together and raise funds to support veterans and their families.

In October 2021, an outstanding group of 19 ultra-runners will be taking on the infamous Marathon des Sables (MDS), a seven-day ultra-marathon in the heat of the Sahara Desert, in order to raise funds for WWTW’s work. In the lead up to the race, we will be introducing you to some of the team. Over the years, WWTW has invited different teams to take part in the event on behalf of the charity. In this interview, we hear from Emma Carpenter.