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Walking Home For Christmas registration is now open
By Fundraising Team on
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 The Wounded is there to help veterans take the next step forward.
Together, we can help veterans find their way ‘home’ at Christmas We hope you can join us.
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Footsore, exhausted but ecstatic: 700km challenge finishes in Newcastle
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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...
Star of TV’s Hunted and Celebrity Hunted revealed as Ambassador for Walking Home For Christmas 2025
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We are utterly delighted to announce that Nichola Tidd, military veteran and star of Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning programmes Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, has joined us as Ambassador for this year’s Walking Home For Christmas and Long Way Home.
During her decade-long military career, Nichola served in the Royal Navy before secondment to Army Intelligence, where she saw two operational tours, in Afghanistan and Iraq.
No stranger to mental health struggles herself, Nichola, has bravely spoken out about the mental health challenges that female veterans can face, particularly within a culture that can discourage vulnerability. Her own PTSD symptoms began to emerge while she was still serving and continued to develop once she had left the...