The Phoenix FM team were out at Barleylands once again for this year’s Billericay Fun Walk.

Organised by local MP John Baron, the walk has now raised over ONE MILLION POUNDS for local charities since it started in 2002.

Around 2,000 walkers and stallholders raised money for numerous charities and good causes.

The exact monies raised by the charities at yesterday’s event will be made known at the Presentation evening on 23 November 2018 when bonus pot cheques will be awarded to each charity and good cause taking part.

Mr Baron said:

“This year’s walk has smashed £1,000,000 in total monies raised since we started the walk in 2002. It has been a tremendous effort by our family of volunteers, to whom we all owe a great debt of gratitude. Many good causes, people less fortunate than ourselves, and animals in need, have all been helped by our efforts – we can be very proud.

“My thanks for Sunday’s walk go to the 2,000 walkers and stallholders for taking part, to the Marshalls, to the wonderful team at Barleylands for hosting the walk, to the Army cadets for car parking duties, and to our own family of volunteers and Committee members for making it all possible. We now wait to see total monies raised from the charities.

“Our thanks also go to our bonus pot sponsors which this year were Swan Housing, c2c, Abellio Greater Anglia, Tunnelcraft Ltd, Brown & Carroll, Hallmark Care Homes, Leonardo, McDonald’s, RSE Building Services and others. Their £40,000 will help many good causes and actually pushed us over the £1,000,000 mark before the charities themselves raised any money on the day.”

John also thanked other volunteers who took part on the day, including Hallmark Care Homes, Abi’s Catering Supplies Ltd, Essex Ambulance Service and Town Crier Jim Shrubb.

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