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Sappers taking on the Marathon des Sables to support WWTW

In less than one month, hundreds of teams will be taking part in Walking With The Wounded’s flagship fundraiser, the Cumbrian Challenge, in order to raise funds for those who served. Despite being postponed due to the pandemic, this year will be the biggest event yet.

WWTW are grateful for the continued support of The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity, who are the principal charity of the Royal Navy. They exist to support sailors, marines and their families, for life. They have enabled us to provide our employment, mental health and care coordination programmes since 2017.

Walking With The Wounded, is set to return to Grasmere in September to host our annual Cumbrian Challenge. The event which was postponed twice last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic is set to take place next month on September 11th, 2021.

In just under 6-weeks, teams will arrive in the Lake District to take part in WWTW’s flagship Cumbrian Challenge event.

WWTW has announced that its North-West Hub, based in Veteran’s Village on Canada Street, Manchester, will re-open on August 2nd.

In May 2021, Chris Gaskin climbed to the top of all 214 Wainwright fells in the Lake District without any external support in record time, all in aid of raising funds for WWTW. Now, he is taking on his next challenge, the Marathon des Sables.

We are thrilled to be the recipients of two grants from the Veterans’ Foundation! The Veterans’ Foundation was set up to help fund charities and other charitable organisations that are helping serving and former members of the Armed Forces, and their dependents, who are in need.

In this time, we have developed our services in partnership with a number of organisations both charitable and statutory.

Leading Armed Forces charity, Walking With The Wounded (‘WWTW’), has just announced a new partnership with Forces Support, a UK Bereavement and Veterans Charity, who are providing funding for WWTW’s North-East hub, based in North Shields.