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More information about The Big Walk 2016 can be found at: www.shef.ac.uk/big-walk

I will be walking as one of a team of 10 walking over 120 miles from 12-17 June to Sheffield on the Trans Pennine Trail. We are walking from the east coast from Hornsea home to Sheffield. 

We will meet another team coming from the west in Tankersley on Day 5 and walk the 18 miles back to the University campus the following day accompanied by the Big Walk One Day Challenge team of staff, students, alumni and friends.

Funds raised through the Big Walk will be used to support refugee academics and students, to demonstrate our solidarity with refugees and to show that refugees are welcome at our University and in our city. Our University is a University of Sanctuary and this has been our tradition since this institution was founded. 

Funds raised through the Big Walk 2016 will be used to support at-risk academics. We have strong links with a number of programmes to support at-risk academics, including the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund and the Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA) - a charity which helps academics in immediate danger, those forced into exile. Through these partnerships, the University of Sheffield can host academics, giving them a place of safety and the financial and practical help to continue their careers until such as time as they can return home. We also support Students seeking refuge or asylum. 

Thank you for supporting the Big Walk 2016.