FMBE Awards Sponsors Howard’s Way Walk
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On Friday 9th September another event industry Howard’s Way walking (HWW) marathon gets underway. This year participants include FMBE’s Frank Wainwright, Claire Stokes, MD of FMBE shortlisted Circle Agency, who will take on the 92 mile route across Exmoor and Dartmoor in 3 days.
FMBE Awards has sponsored this year’s event alongside a roster that includes event and brand businesses Gallowglass, RPM (also FMBE shortlisted) and The Circle Agency as well as Land Rover.
The very first Howard’s Way walk took place in April 2008 to raise funds for the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, and was led by Howard Kerr himself, in defiance of being diagnosed with the disease. He died just four months later. No-one could have known – not Howard, nor his wife Jane and her brother Nick Grecian who’ve organised the walks since – that it would grow into such a unified cause for the events industry – now including cross-London walking as well as the marathon.
Since 2008, the Howard’s Way walkers have trekked more than 600 miles in long distance walks over some of the UK’s most beautiful landscapes, raising over £300,000 in honour of Howard and to fundraise for research into the cancer that took his life.
It is the third HWW that FMBE has sponsored and will be the fourth for FMBE’s Frank Wainwright after previous hikes in the Dales, Cotswolds and Highlands.
Frank comments: “I’m getting older and these walks don’t get any easier. I know already that my feet will be in ribbons at the end, but the cause is more and more compelling every year. We walk together with John Marshall, professor of tumerology at Barts Cancer Institute, whose research, we believe, will contribute to significant improvement in the current dire survival stats for this hideous illness. Pancreatic Cancer wrecks lives and families and brilliant dedicated experts like John are dedicating their lives to solving this cancer’s unique issues. They need and deserve our support. Please donate”
