My interactive sponsored walk of the Wandle Trail (as described on my Just Giving site) will take place on 22nd October. With less than 1 week to go, I thought I should give you the information on this page as well:

The idea is that anyone can join me to walk all, or part of the Wandle Trail, using the notes from this Blog to talk about what we see as we go along. And you can sponsor yourself, or me if you can’t do the Walk. I’m raising money for Stop the Traffik, a charity which helps to combat human trafficking around the world; see justgiving.com/Clare-Simons.

These are the details for the day:

As I said in the introduction, the Trail falls neatly into 4 parts, each taking about 1 hour to walk. So the plan is to meet at Waddon Ponds at 10.00am and walk to the next meeting point, Wilderness Island (by the entrance to the Island in Mill Lane) arriving at 11.00am. Then we walk to Morden Hall Park, arriving at 12.10, where we stop for lunch for about 45 minutes (meeting point is the café.)  Setting off again we arrive at Plough Lane Wimbledon at around 2.15pm. Then, after another short break, we do the last leg to The River Thames, which takes a little longer. We should arrive at around 3.45pm, bearing in mind that we’ll all be flagging a bit! That’s the plan anyway, in reality it will probably take longer due to all the stops to look at interesting things. If you’re planning to join us at Wilderness Island or Morden Hall Park, best thing would be to text me (07708 497848) when you get there if we haven’t reached there yet.

Practical Stuff: there are toilets in all the parks we walk through. Most of the Wandle Trail is paved footpaths, however some bits can get muddy so wear ‘sensible’ shoes/trainers. It’s not going to rain (thanks BBC Weather) but bring a waterproof coat anyway. Bring a bottle of water, or flask of tea/coffee if you prefer. Just as you can join in later in the Walk, you can also LEAVE at any point. You don’t have to walk the whole 12 miles! You will need to have someone to pick you up or be prepared to use public transport to get home, I’ve got a leaflet of The Trail with the nearest bus/tram/train routes.

I still have 2 more parts of the Walk to post, plus the photos, this should be completed by Monday evening, sorry it’s taken so long.

Lastly……if you can’t do the Walk, please sponsor me anyway, on the Just Giving page above. Thanks, Clare xx