The Thames Walk for Water

Last year, around 20,000 children and parents took part in sponsored walks in villages, towns and cities across the UK as part of our Turn on the Tap campaign.

This year, the walk is going global.

We’ve teamed up with our sister organisations in Australia, Canada and Europe to organise a Global Walk for Water – inviting schools and churches, children and parents, young and old to go for a local walk with a global impact.

1,000s of people across the globe…all walking 1 million miles….raising 1 million pounds in the UK alone…for families living without clean water.

The Thames Walk is where it all began... 15 days, a combined 899 miles walked, Cirencester to the Thames Barrier.

You can see some of their photos and read about their adventures in the entries below. Find out more about Turn on the Tap at www.turnonthetap.org.uk there's also a donation link where you can sponsor us.

Friday, 3 April 2009

Day 14 Putney to Tower Bridge

This is the penultimate day, the two heroes are still marching on for Turn On The Tap. It’s almost over one more day to go, just a short one of five miles. There is an air of anticipation at this draws near, as the team can envisage their own bed for the night. Much better than the seven to a room accommodation at the YHA last night. We were treated to a truly international chorus of snoring from round the world. No nation appeared to have mastered this fully, even our friend from Seattle or the chap from Argentina or closer to home from Heyrod.

Thanks to Carol and Sandra for joining us today and giving us new topics on conversation. Much of the morning was spent darting up and down side roads trying to follow the path signs as they dealt with building sites suddenly blocking our route.

Much of the route took us past famous buildings i.e. MI6, Battersea Power Station, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, The Globe Theatre etc etc.

Some folk are still not taking it seriously though.
‘Who’s eaten all the pies’? Was the cry outside the Tower of London. The visit to No 10 Downing Street nearly didn’t happen as the security was pretty adamant that our large symbolic post-card was not being allowed in. They did allow us to take in plenty of the small cards to pose with in front of the cameras (and the BBC) and the famous black door did open for us to hand one in.
After much picture taking we had lunch in a park facing the Houses of Parliament along with all the protesters of the Iraq war. Of course John and Martyn, plus others had the easy bit, they didn’t have to battle through the London traffic. With a 17 mile journey taking over two hours and even worse almost back together and two miles took even longer. That’s why this is a bit on the late side today.
Tonight being the final meal together we had an enjoyable time at a local Italian restaurant, sharing our thoughts and funny bits about the experience. Thanks to Barbara and the team, we had some great and very interesting places to stay. See that Des P Rado is still close by.Important thing is we have done this to raise awareness about the need for access to safe water.
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