Neil Atherton
The Last ride 7 bus routes in 7 different regions in 7 days
Fundraising for Trussell
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The Bus Walkers Last Ride
This summer Neil Atherton from Widnes in Merseyside will be walking 125 miles to raise money for The Trussell Trust and the amazing work they do across the country.
He will be walking some of Britain’s most popular bus routes, across seven regions in seven days.
• Sunday 9th July 12X Durham to Newcastle upon Tyne16 miles
• Monday 10th July 110 Wakefield to Leeds 12 miles
• Tuesday 11th July 82A Runcorn to Liverpool 28 miles
• Wednesday 12th July 5 Wrexham to Llangollen 14 miles
• Thursday 13th July 1 - Telford - Sutton Hill
16 miles
• Friday 14th July 302 - Heml Hempstead to Welwyn Gardens 20 miles
• Saturday 15th July 29 Wood Green to Trafalgar Square 11 miles
Having walked over 260 miles of Merseyside’s most popular bus routes in 2021 and 2022 and raising over £11500 for The Trussell Trust, he’s setting out to do it all over again.
He has been a supporter of The Trussell Trust for many years and his goal is to raise awareness of their nationwide network of food banks who provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK.
At the end of his expedition, he will have walked 126 miles in one week, that’s longer than the distance from London to Calais, France. Or the length of 628320 (Six hundred twenty-eight thousand three hundred twenty) Subway footlong sandwiches end-to-end.
Neil Atherton, said, ‘It’s 2023 in Britain and there are families going hungry and I’m determined to do my little part to challenge this as the norm. Everybody should be entitled to go to bed each night, warm and with a full tummy, that’s not a outrageous ask.
Hopefully by walking some of the UK’s most popular bus routes and raising awareness of the scale of poverty faced by many millions of families, I can encourage those with a little more to give a thought to those with a little less.
I hope to never have to walk another bus route in my life, but until we tackle poverty at this very basic level I will keep going. The cost of merely surviving has become too much for a lot of people and that’s nothing that they should feel shame about, this situation has come about due to years and years of austerity and the decisions that other people have made based on profits and popularity, at the detriment to the hard-working people who keep this country going.’
You can stay up to date by following him on Instagram at athertonneil
Twitter at @TheBuswalker
and Facebook at Neil Atherton
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