A WALK in Salisbury will be a “celebration of resilience” and a way to remember loved ones.

Salisbury Hospice Charity’s Celebration Walk is made up of two routes - one is five miles and the other is 10. Both start and finish at the Guildhall.

To give the participants a good send off, a community choir will be performing and Salisbury Mayor Tom Corbin will officially start the event.

Moyra Rowney, the events fundraiser at Salisbury Hospice, said: “Lots has happened in the last two years that could be celebrated…even surviving the pandemic. We want to celebrate resilience, and how we all helped each other while remembering those we lost.”

Both routes will take walkers past St Thomas’s Church where they can pause and light a candle of remembrance if they so wish.

Rather than providing badges, the hospice is giving participants a sapling as a living memory. This is in honour of the Queen’s call to plant more trees for the Jubilee celebrations.

A ribbon will also be given as a symbolic gesture.

The ribbons have been upcycled from the Hope floral display in the Salisbury Cathedral Flower Festival.

Moyra Rowney added: “One hundred and twenty people have signed up already but there is still time to register, and those who are interested can just come along and share the remembrance message if they wish.”

The Celebration Walk starts at 6pm on Saturday, May 21 at the Guildhall.

To register or find out more, visit: salisburyhospicecharity.org.uk/celebration-walk

 

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