Fence Membership chairman’s Charity Stroll units off this Friday – Toy World Journal | The enterprise journal with a ardour for toysToy World Journal

This 12 months’s stroll will see chairman Jon Gregory and a bunch of 12 members and mates head to Ypres in Belgium to lift cash for the Fence Membership charities.

Talking concerning the forthcoming occasion, Fence Membership chairman Jon Gregory informed Toy World: “As we did in 2023, we’re persevering with the custom of the Chairman’s Problem to honour the courageous of our nation and Commonwealth, who served to protect the democracy all of us get pleasure from at the moment. In 2023 we honoured all that served in WW2 with a 30km stroll alongside the Normandy shoreline, visiting the D Day touchdown websites, to lift funds for the Fence Membership charites, which assist kids in want of help.

“This Friday ninth August, a hardy bunch of 12 self-funded charity fund raisers together with members, wall members and mates of the Fence Membership will embark on a route of round 38km that takes within the historic and emotional route alongside the Battlefields of WW1 in Ypres Belgium. It has actual significance to a number of of our strolling fundraisers, a few of whom had relations on this particular battle, plus others with related household tales of heroism and bravado.

“The target for the occasion is to lift as a lot as attainable for the Fence Membership charity. We hope that individuals from the toy group will give generously – each final penny counts.”

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The Fence Membership celebrated file fundraising achievements in 2023, and is constant its good work in 2024. Because the organisation continues to evolve, The Fence Membership is remaining true to its unique goal – representing all sides of the fence of the UK toy business. Assembly usually at unique gatherings and business occasions, the membership’s members throw themselves into a spread of bold and enjoyable actions (enlisting the help of colleagues and mates) to lift priceless funds for kids’s charities.