Article from the Broadgate Estates web site www.broadgateinfo.net On 23rd March, leading national charity Victim Support invited the Broadgate community to take part in the hottest challenge of the year. Nearly 60 intrepid people were trained by Survivorbility Ltd to walk on thousands off pieces of glass and then…. on fire! The evening was a resounding success and [...]
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Bull goes fire walking
Barnett Football Club news page: Michael Bull, a season ticket holder in the East Stand who has been supporting Barnet since 1975, is doing a 15 feet sponsored walk in aid of the charity Victim Support. Not your run-of-the-mill walk this one. Michael's effort on March 23 is, in fact, a firewalk over 15 feet [...]
Feminist fire walk a success
Thank you to everyone who took part in the first national feminist firewalk on the 4th February! We have raised over £16,000 and counting… These funds are crucial to Fawcett and will help us bring together individual women and women’s groups across the UK to ask politicians – including Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Leader [...]
Fundraising fire walk in Boston, Lincolnshire raises £11,000 for the Butterfly Hospice Trust
Bostonians are definitely behind fundraising for the in-patient hospice, which will provide an invaluable service not just to Boston and the surrounding area, but the Pilgrim Hospital’s catchment area and beyond. It’s impossible to exaggerate the difference it will make to patients, but to demonstrate just how willing the public is to support the hospice, consider the fact that 55 volunteers turned up to take part in the firewalk.
Feeling hot, hot, hot at charity fire walk
It may have been wet and windy… but the weekend was hot, hot, hot for a number of those at Boston Rugby Club's fireworks night. Around 70 daredevils had pledged their souls to a charity fire walk on Saturday… stomping across a 20ft bed of red-hot burning wood embers. The challenge, held at the Princess Royal Sports Arena, was in aid of the Butterfly Hospice Trust, which dreams of building a bed hospice in the town.
Fundraising Fire Walk for Macmillan Cancer Support
Raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, around 20 people walked over 500C coals, including four sisters, Alison MacDougall, Jan Davidson, Shirley Stewart and Karen Will, who together raised more than £1,300.
First fire walk fundraiser for Barnardo's
A team of 31 brave souls hot footed it to an event in Hopwood to raise thousands of pounds for a good cause. Participants travelled from all over the Midlands to the Westmead Hotel to cross a walkway of burning embers measuring 800 degrees centigrade for the very first Barnardo's Believe Fire Walk Event and raised over £4,000 for local children.
Macmillan Charity Fire Walk at Lincoln City Football Club
More than 30 brave football fans hot-footed it over 400C coals, inspired by Lincoln City FC boss Peter Jackson. The Macmillan charity fire walk was held in honour of Jackson, who was recently diagnosed with throat cancer and is currently undergoing treatment.
Survivorbility runs the UK's most northerly fire walk, raising over £3,500 for SPCA
Fearless animal-lovers took part in the county's first fire walk at the weekend to raise more than £3500 for the SPCA's Balmore Animal Welfare Centre. Twenty-nine volunteers hot-footed it across a bed of red-hot embers at temperatures reaching 700 degrees Celcius during Saturday nights daunting challenge to generate much needed funds.
East London's Toynbee Hall holds 2nd annual fire walk
26 brave people took part in East End charity Toynbee Hall’s fire walk on site at Toynbee Hall in E1 and raised over £7,000 in sponsorship on November 1st.
