Hippychick charity stroll raises greater than double its goal – Toy World Journal | The enterprise journal with a ardour for toysToy World Journal

To mark the most important milestone of 25 years in enterprise, the Hippychick group undertook a 25km stroll throughout the Quantock Hills in help of charity.

Pictured, from left to proper, are Scott Bateman, Jeremy Minchin, Mandy Younger, Rose Slocombe, Mike Chook, Aquille Pociute, Annaliese Deakin, Julia Minchin and Alan Houghton.

The group smashed its fundraising goal of £1k, and raised £2.3k for Musgrove Park Hospital’s Paediatric Division on the 25km stroll to rejoice its twenty fifth yr in enterprise.

The crew set off from Barford Gables in Spaxton, the previous dwelling of Hippychick house owners, Julia and Jeremy Minchin, and adopted a route persevering with as much as Crowcombe Park Gate, carrying on over the Quantock Hills to Holford and again to Nether Stowey, a part of the well-known Coleridge Method.

The stroll throughout the Quantocks, on the most popular day of the yr to this point, took eight hours to finish, with the exhausted however triumphant group of Scott Bateman, Jeremy Minchin, Mandy Younger, Rose Slocombe, Mike Chook, Aquille Pociute, Annaliese Deakin, Julia Minchin and Alan Houghton, lastly reaching the ending put up after simply three (very vital) pit stops for refreshments and ice cream alongside the best way.

The corporate has chosen to help Love Musgrove – the official charity of Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. Being a Somerset enterprise, this charity may be very near the entire group’s hearts because it has supported so lots of them through the years, together with the beginning of 18 Hippychick infants, in addition to offering important providers and help to the area people.