One World Link “Parks and Pubs” Sponsored Walk

6 September 2025
The Teachers Group of One World Link organised a sponsored walk in Warwick and Leamington on a fine September afternoon. The purpose was to raise funds for the One World Link-EducAid “Transforming Education in Bo” project. Sally Morris had devised an ingenious route that covered ten kilometres with hardly any roads.

Fourteen of us (mainly teachers) and a guide dog assembled in St Nicholas Park, Warwick, and set off round the park and a nearby pond. The route then took us along the Riverside Walk with scenes so rural it was hard to believe that we were only yards away from busy streets.

Crossing into Leamington we stopped in the garden of The Cricketers for a refreshing half-way drink. As we circled Victoria Park we saw that the children’s play area was teeming with children and the Bowls Club with bowlers. The Pump Room Gardens were even busier with huge crowds enjoying the food festival. We kept to the perimeter, resisting the temptation to stop for any of the many exotic foods on offer. Leamington, it seemed, was the centre of everything this weekend.

On we went beside the river Leam to Newbold Comyn where we did a final loop, triumphantly reaching our finish at The Drawing Board pub.

It was a great and worthwhile walk, taking most of us along paths we had no idea existed, and raising more than £3,000 pounds for the project, including Gift Aid.