Dorset Deanery Community Big Lent Walk
Lent is here – and so is the Big Lent Walk! Communities up and down the country are getting involved. They are gathering throughout Lent on March 18th, or whichever date they choose to walk and raise vital funds for CAFOD’s work around the world. Dorset Deanery are getting together in style!
With the Lenten season in full swing, CAFOD Deanery coordinators in Dorset are bringing their community together to take on the Big Lent Walking challenge! The Dorset Deanery Community Big Lent Walk is showing their commitment to reach those in greatest need, and relieve suffering caused by climate change. Will you join them in walking to support our global neighbours by organizing your own community walk?
On Saturday 25th March, parishes in Dorset are coming together as a community to support communities in poverty around the world. Focused on the participation rather than the distance, the Dorset Deanery Big Lent Walk is bringing neighbouring parishes together to walk in solidarity as a community.
Check out the routes which the parishes are taking on Saturday 25th March!
- West Moors, Wimborne, Bournemouth, and Poole are walking the Castleman Trailway.
- Dorchester is walking from Martinstown to Hardy’s Monument.
- Purbeck Parishes are organizing a regular walk led by Bernard White.
- Blandford, Marnhull and Gillingham are walking the North Dorset Trailway starting at Blandford and Sturminster Newton and meeting at Shillingstone Station. Sherborne parish will walk with us from Sturminster Newton to Shillingstone.
Are there similar walks which you could do in your area?
Steve Carrivick from the Dorset Deanery comments:
“An ideal way for our neighbouring parishes to feel connected and on the same journey. What better way to link some of our parishes than using the disused railway lines, now walking routes, the Castleman Trailway and the North Dorset Trailway are ideal walking routes for us.”
He continues:
“We have invited Simon Hoare, our local MP to join us at Shillingstone Station. Lets hope he can make it.”
“Let’s get creative and see where our paths will lead us on this one-day event in support of CAFOD. There is no better opportunity to get out in nature, engage with your faith, and practice solidarity than through a community Big Lent Walk!”
We are very excited to see the pictures and stories from this walk!
The statement below shows how Dorset Parishes walking links into CAFOD’s wider work:
Dorset Parish communities together bring hope and compassion to poor communities, standing side by side with them to end poverty and injustice. CAFOD works on long-term development as well as responding to emergencies just as they have in so many past emergencies, so they are helping those suffering from the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey.
So why not sign up and join the Dorset Deanery as they get together for their Community Big Lent Walk!