This Christmas, Chapel St are organising a charity challenge with a festive edge. On 15th December, the Chapel St team and friends will be taking to the streets for London’s first ever Christmas Carolthon to raise money for community health projects.
A day-long challenge from 8 am – 8 pm, the Carolthon will see a team of runners cover 26 miles and do concerts around the capital. They will be joined by a team of brass musicians who will play extra concerts during the day at key locations in London.
Starting off with a breakfast concert at the Houses of Parliament, the route will also include a lunch time gig at St Pancras station, stop offs at Oxford Street and Regent Street, and concluding in Covent Garden.
The Carolthon team is made up of Chapel St staff and other friends of the charity, and aims to raise as much money as possible through running sponsorship and carol busking collections on the day.
As a charity that exists to make change happen in community life, Chapel St is creating programmes in education, employment and health. Money raised through the Carolthon will help Chapel St’s health arm create community health programmes which can run alongside and extend the reach of their Medical Centre and Health Hub in Hammersmith and Fulham.
From dad’s and lads groups, mentoring for mums, debt counselling or care for drug and alcohol users, Chapel St hope to tackle the broader issues impacting people’s health and connect the care of the medical centre more deeply with the needs of the community.
‘As Londoners, we’re used to the phrase ‘Mind The Gap’ – but through the Carolthon, we want to help people mind the health gap that can exist in community life. In London alone, there’s a gap in life expectancy between richer and poorer boroughs. Board the tube at Westminster and get off in Lambeth and someone’s life just got shorter – by seven years! Post codes and health prospects are linked and we want to do something about it,’ says Janet Miles, from Chapel St, who is running on the day.
‘We really hope that people will support our Carolthon, whether it’s by donating to our Just Giving page, or turning up on the day and dropping a few pennies in our busking buckets! Everything that people give helps so much and enables us to reach out more effectively to vulnerable young families, the isolated elderly and other marginalised people in deprived areas.’
To support the Carolthon visit our Just Giving page!
There is a Just Giving Page for the Carolthon Team at:
http://www.justgiving.com/teams/carolthon
Press/General enquiries:
Janet Miles, Communications at Chapel St: 020 8241 2017
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.chapelst.org/carolthon
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