Walk the Walk
Celebrating 20 Amazing Years !
Photography By : Walk the Walk
Retro girl-band , The Tootsie Rollers , at Walk the Walk ’ s 20th Anniversary Celebration .
Nina with the Spice Girls in 1997 wearing the bras they designed .
In 1996 , Nina Barough had Just months later , Nina was a unique fundraising idea , diagnosed with breast cancer . which she turned into the Her friends wanted to support hugely successful breast her and in April 1997 , they cancer charity , Walk the entered the London Marathon , Walk . Now celebrating its raising another £ 25,000 . The 20th Anniversary , the charity next year , Nina and only half her has raised a spectacular friends received places , but £ 113 million through its undeterred , she created a oneoff night-time Power Walking iconic night-time MoonWalk events , and it is the largest Marathon , ahead of the official grant-making breast cancer London Marathon . Nina charity in the UK . completed both and The MoonWalk was born … the first ever mass fundraising event for walkers .
It started with a dream that Nina was Power Walking the New York Marathon in a bra to raise money for breast cancer . Nina had never fundraised before and had no connection to breast cancer . Turning her dream into reality , she persuaded a group of friends to take part in the New York Marathon in their bras , raising an incredible £ 25,000 , which was granted to Breakthrough Breast Cancer .
From small beginnings , Walk the Walk has grown and grown . The MoonWalk London now attracts 17,000 women and men every year , wearing the charity ’ s trademark brightly decorated bras . On Saturday 13th May 2017 , walkers will take on the 20th MoonWalk London , starting and finishing their overnight half or full marathons on Clapham Common .
There are now MoonWalks in Scotland and Iceland , and there is also a Walk the Walk Arctic Marathon in Lapland . Fundraising continues to flourish , with annual totals regularly topping £ 7 million ,
Walk the Walk grants funds to help fund research into breast cancer and to help improve the lives of those with cancer now . £ 30 million has been granted to Breast Cancer Now ( formerly Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough Breast Cancer ) for
Grants to Penny Brohn UK , Breast Cancer Haven , the Helen Rollason Cancer Charity , Maggie ’ s Centres , the Welsh charity Tenovus and The Christie Hospital in Manchester have all helped support those with cancer and their families . Funding from Walk the Walk for NHS Trusts and hospitals across the UK has allowed them to purchase Scalp Cooling equipment … special machines which help people undergoing chemotherapy to retain their hair .
20 years on from Nina ’ s dream , The MoonWalk ’ s decorated bras
Ready to Walk !
the long-running Generations Study into breast cancer , for the UK ’ s first ever breast cancer Tissue Bank and for the Legacy Study into secondary breast cancer . turn slightly less heads in the moonlit streets of London and Edinburgh but Nina and Walk the Walk ’ s work is far from done .
Nina Barough CBE , Founder and Chief Executive of Walk the Walk , in the 1996 New York Marathon .
To sign up as a walker or a volunteer for The MoonWalk London and The MoonWalk Scotland 2017 or to find out more about this charity go to walkthewalk . org
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