This August four of our companions, Carlton, Jagger, Peter and Chloe are taking on a massive 450 mile Walk of Kindness from Wales to Norfolk to help end homelessness and they need your help.
Companions want you to join them by creating your own walk of kindness or by joining one of our events to create an uprising of kindness across the country.
Watch Chloe’s story to learn more about the people you’ll be supporting:
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Learn more about the spiritual journey of pilgrimages in our film here.
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A pilgrimage for change
The Walk of Kindness is a pilgrimage inspired by the solidarity and compassion that companions show one another in our community daily. Our team of companions, along with our CEO, Cecile Roberts will be walking from St David’s in Wales to our charity’s home in Ditchingham. They’ll be walking for 6 weeks, averaging 10 miles a day, from August 26th to October 10th – World Homeless Day. The Walk of Kindness follows the route of the newly formed Via Beata pilgrimage which runs directly through our site in Ditchingham. View the full route here.
All companions who live with us have experienced homelessness, housing insecurity and often severe trauma. Our community has become a home for them, and now they want you to join them in helping other out of homelessness.
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The Kindness Impact
As rough sleeping figures continue to rise across the country, we are seeing an increased demand for the services and support we offer. To ensure our charity can grow to support more companions we are opening a social enterprise Bed and Breakfast within our heritage 19th century site.
Once open, the annual income from one B&B room will provide someone who has experienced homelessness with a home and therapeutic support for a whole year. The B&B project was estimated to cost £2.7 million and we have been fundraising intensely to reach this target. The Walk of Kindness is our last push to get the B&B open and we are appealing for £360,000 to complete the refurbishment. Sponsor an individual room or find out more here.
Join the Uprising of Kindness
We need your support to help people experiencing homelessness to have a safe place to call home. We’re using the Enthuse platform to fundraise for this project, register on the site here to set up your fundraising page.
You can join our Uprising of Kindness by:
- Sponsoring each mile of the pilgrimage, supporting companions each step of the way
- Taking on your own Kindness Challenge and walking 45 or 450 miles in 6 weeks
- Joining us for our sponsored Lowestoft to Ditchingham Wellbeing Challenge & sleepout on 9th & 10th October
- Sponsor a Bed and Breakfast room, get in touch for further information via [email protected]
To learn more about The Walk of Kindness and chat with us about fundraising get in touch via: [email protected]. Start fundraising here.
Join our Kindness Community, share your training photos, be inspired by other fundraisers, and see our companion’s progress by joining our Facebook group. Share your fundraising page online with friends & family and #WalkofKindness
Need some help setting up your fundraising page? Download our step-by-step guide here.