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Read the latest updates and view archived articles from Walking With The Wounded's 'Walking Home Home For Christmas' December campaign.
Celebrity Hunted star and Armed Forces veteran Nichola Tidd backs campaign supporting veterans this Christmas
By Media Team on
Channel 4 Hunted star and Royal Navy and Army Intelligence veteran, Nichola Tidd, is backing Armed Forces charity Walking With The Wounded (WWTW) as the celebrity ambassador for its festive fundraiser, Walking Home For Christmas.
To mark the campaign launch, WWTW joined military cadets for a symbolic walk through London today, highlighting the importance of supporting veterans and their families this Christmas.
The campaign invites people to complete a sponsored walk anywhere, at any time, supporting those who served.
Walking from the Cenotaph in Whitehall to HMS President near Tower Bridge, the group carried a weighted rucksack carrying gift tags describing what home means to the cadets. The walk kickstarted the Walking Home For Christmas 15,000,000 steps community challenge.
Having experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Nichola understands first-hand the challenges some veterans face when leaving the Armed Forces and finding their place in civilian life.
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We're pleased to announce that our annual Christmas fundraising campaign, Walking Home For Christmas, is open and registrations are live.
For 2026, our focus is on the meaning of home and how, for many, home isn't a place but a feeling.
Home is more than a roof over your head
At Christmas, home is the place where you feel safe. It’s having a job to go to, people who care and somewhere to turn when life gets tough.
For too many veterans, that sense of home has been lost. After serving their country, some face unemployment, mental health challenges, isolation, or at risk of homelessness.
The challenges can feel especially acute at Christmas, when the distance between where they are and where they want to be can feel the greatest. Walking With...
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Celebrations as Long Way Home reaches the culmination of its 18-day challenge, walking 700km from central London to central Newcastle, pulling the pulk the whole way. The pulk is deeply embedded in our history and heritage and accompanied a group of wounded veterans, joined by Prince Harry, in 2011 as they undertook the first expedition of its kind to the North Pole.
Long Way Home leader and Head of Events and Partnerships at WWTW, James Davis said: “That expedition proved that the sky was the limit for those wounded in the service of their country and showed the world what veterans can do. If you tell a veteran they can’t do something they will promptly go out and do it! From that expedition Walking With The Wounded was born and a key...
Intrepid (and soaked) WWTW team reach Manchester Cenotaph partway through epic 700km 18-day Long Way Home challenge
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Gregg Stevenson, paralympic gold medallist and Walking With The Wounded trustee, joined the Long Way Home team on Monday 15th December as it arrived at the Manchester Cenotaph, 423km into its mammoth 18-day, 700km trek from The Cenotaph in London to Newcastle, pulling the pulk ‘home’ in time for Christmas.
The intrepid teams have faced poor weather, Storm Bram, mud, multiple punctures and equipment failures, but determination has kept them walking.
Gregg joined for the final rain-drenched kilometres into central Manchester. He said: “The special thing about Walking With The Wounded is they do exactly what they say…it’s about supporting people who have come across hard times, so thank you very much for your support. This whole mission...