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Despite the inclement weather, more than 600 walkers took part in Diabetes Jersey’s North-to-South Country Walk which took place on Sunday 30 April. The walk raised just over £20,000 and was dedicated to the memory of the late Brian le Marquand MBE who was, for many years, Diabetes Jersey’s chairman.
“We will use such moneys raised to help fund the provision of specialist staff at the Jersey Diabetes Centre,” says Daibetes Jersey’s chairman Bill O’Brien. “This is a very positive way to support the Health and Social Services Department as they cope with the management of a condition that has one new person in the Island suffering from it every day.”
The 2017 North-to-South Country Walk once again involved a gentle eight mile walk through some of Jersey’s most charming countryside from the public car park on La Rue des Platons along public roads which are mostly country lanes running through the parishes of Trinity and St Martin finishing at Gorey Coast Road Car Park. Free coaches were provided to take walkers either back to the start or back to St Hrelier.
“We would like to thank everyone who helped us achieve such a magnificent result,” says Mr O’Brien. “Particularly the Honorary Police of the parishes we walked thro
ugh, St John’s Abulance, our team of marshals and above all every one of the walkers whose generosity and contempt for the poor weather were both truly remarkable.”
With so many walkers commenting on what many considered to be Jersey’s delightful but largely unknown country lanes, the 2018 route, while still proceeding from north to south, will be along a new route but which will, once again, reveal much of Jersey’s hidden splendour.
