Steve, Jane & Kirsty walking for 'Mind'

Steve Jones

Walks for Mind

June 26, 2024

Our friend and extremely talented wood turner, Steve Jones is walking 450km, with his family for the charity, Mind. Please read his story below.

After experiencing the most horrific experiences due to Mental Health issues in our close family and then having close friends commit suicide we were inspired to make a difference by raising money for Mind
We have planned the complete Pennine way along the central mountains of England, the Pennines and the Cheviots. This time we will be walking with our Border Collie Merlin, to make it dog friendly we will have to go off route a few times but return each day so the full route is walked. The extra miles will mean we are walking approx 450km (280miles) From Edale in Derbyshire Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in Scotland borders.
12,000 meters of ascent which is approx 9 x Ben Nevis. 🙈
We will be walking for 17 days in July/August including my 60th Birthday so no presents just donations please
Training begins now I just hope We’ve not bitten of more than we can do
The three of us Jane, Kirsty are I have done 2 long walks for Charity before and had incredible support but nothing this challenging.
We will personally fund the challenge so 100% of monies raised will go to the ‘Mind’ charity.
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Steve Jones is fundraising for Mind (justgiving.com)

Team Jones

Training in North Wales

Amazing! We have smashed the £5,000 thank you everyone, many of you may know Merlin had a bad cut on his Carpal Paw recently and is currently with a collar but it’s healing well and he is going to be fine for the walk.

Training is still going on but we will be walking without Merlin for a couple of weeks.

With just under 2 months to go let’s see how much we can increase the total. We have been amazed and inspired at the support so far. Your help is helping others. We have had some great training in North Wales Mountains without Merlin but he has had his staples out now and walking on lead. He will be ok for our walk! So from next week we will be back to long walks.

With 5 weeks until we start our challenge you have been amazing and donated over £6,000 thank you. We are overwhelmed with your support and hopefully the total will continue to rise until we finish💙 Mental Heath is so important and help is needed to raise awareness so THANK YOU

All sponsors will go into a draw for a

Hand Turned Clock in Burr Elm made by Steve the Woodturner

18th July 2024

A message from Steve

It’s nearly time. I promised a second prize to go into the draw if we reached £5k and with what’s promised we are past £7,500 so here’s the second prize. Anyone donating to our 450km charity walk will go into the draw for the two clocks(see previous posts for the other clock). I will post anywhere. All money raised will go to the mental health charity ‘Mind’ we will fund any expenses. We are absolutely blown away with the generous donations so far and it helps us to complete our challenge. So a heart felt thank you to everyone. Our route includes slight variations to accommodate Merlin the Border Collie.

We start the walk on 23rd July

The draw will be made on Sunday 11th August

For any one left who would like to donate please click the Justgiving page link below

29th July 2024

A message from Steve via facebook

Just to update you all we have done the first 6 days of our walk and all is ok a few aches and pains but nothing serious.

A huge thank you for the continued support and sponsorship for ‘Mind’

10th August 2024

They have done it! Raising £11,000

A massive thank you to everyone who supported us and donated. The draw for the clocks will be this evening. The justgiving page will remain open for a little longer but any donators after 5pm 11th August 2024 will miss out on the draw sorry.

11th August 2024

The winners of the Draw for the Hand Turned Clocks from Steve via Facebook

We have 421 named sponsors.

I numbered all of them white sheets are from Justgiving yellow the cash sponsors.

The draw was witnessed by Olivia Verney

First price goes to John & Karen I will email for address

Second price goes to Chris Duckhouse

Congratulations to the winners! But most of all congratulations to the 3 of you, and Merlin on raising this amazing amount of money for this very important charity. The Just Giving page is still open for anyone that would like to donate.

How can you support Team Jones support Mind?

Please visit our Justgiving page, search:- Steve, Jane & Kirsty walking for Mind or click on the link Steve Jones is fundraising for Mind (justgiving.com)