2023
We cross mountains, one step at a time
for Gran Canaria
Women & Families, Fighters & Survivors
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This year our goal is to raise at least €5,000 for Gran Canaria local charity The Food Project.
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#TheFoodProject Fundraiser
Every penny we raise is donated directly to help Women & Families, Fighters & Survivors on Gran Canaria. This year we are raising funds specifically to save The Food Project, Mogán's food bank and outreach programme on the south of Gran Canaria
Raising Funds and Awareness
The Food Project in Arguineguín has been run by a committed team of volunteers since 2008, helping to provide food, clothing, assistance and dignity to some of the families most in need who live in and around the tourism enclaves of Mogán on the southwest of Gran Canaria.
The Food Project provides help to around 500 people every week, and does so without any governmental assistance. It is only thanks to direct donations from members of the public that they can continue their work. They were forced, in 2020, to take on a private rental to store and distribute their assistance to local families and we hope to be able to help them to gain access to government grants to not only continue their work but also pay for a professional social worker to advise their service users on routes out of poverty.
The food project is so much more than food on the table for people who struggle. it is a community hub, a source of information and a place where those who struggle the most can go to find help to stand on their own two feet and to restore their sense of dignity. The government should be assisting with all of this, but until they do, this vital work can only continue with assistance from the general public and local businesses. We hope you will help us to help the helpers.
Donations have already been received from:
Claire Jarman
Good luck sweetheart 🩷🩷
Katrina Ridley
Bailey Bunn
Good luck xxx
jose
David Wilson
Good luck and enjoy
Christine Ponjaert
Nigel Clarke
Happy walking
David Rhodes
Tina Vandenbroucke
Veel succes!! Mike & Tina
Yvette Timon .:.
Bart & Tony C.c. El Chaparral
Bar de Lantaarn
Congratulations to everyone at Bar de Lantaarn and the wonderful chaparral community
Copm Doyle
Susan Banks
Congratulations Dave! A wonderful effort for a very special cause. Thank you x
Michele O Rourke
Go Sarah. A very good cause
Aase Klemetsen
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Tara Denne
Best of luck Sarah you will be amazing love Tara and Arno
John Lynch
Good luck xxx
Anonymous
Karen Evans
Good luck will be a great achievement x
Thank You To Our Partners
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You can donate directly and all your donation will go to our local charities.
Corporate Sponsorship
We reach over 100,000 people via news channels, social media campaigns and events. By sponsoring The Long Walk your brand will be associated with women’s health and family wellbeing, healthy active lifestyles, rural tourism, team building, luxury hospitality, Gran Canaria Culture and history, and more. And most importantly all public donations raised through corporate sponsorship go directly to local charities.
The Long Walk 2023 event
Walkers are able to join us for one, two or all three days walking coast-to-coast over the highest point on Gran Canaria, from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the rugged north coast to the calm southern waters of Arguineguín, to help raise funds and awareness for our local food bank distribution point, The Food Project, who not only help feed families most in need but also provide clothing, furniture, opportunities and training to help individuals stand on their own two feet with dignity.
Join us for one, two or all three days
Full Day Challenge
Las Palmas - San Mateo- Friday Sept 29
- 22km trail walk
- Lunch included
- Transport back to start
- Full insurance
- Support Vehicle
- Wonderful sense of wellbeing
Weekend Walker
San Mateo - Cruz Grande- Friday & Saturday or Saturday & Sunday
- 50km
- Dinner & breakfast
- 1 night’s accommodation
- Full insurance
- Support Vehicle
- Scintillating company
The Long Walker
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Arguineguín- Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- 75km
- Dinners & Breakfasts
- 2 night’s accommodation
- Full insurance
- Support Vehicle
- Thrilling Guides & Epic Adventure
* This is the minimum sponsorship required to pay for an individual walker, it is not a donation. It would be amazing if you could raise more. Every registered walker is also given an official fundraising page to collect donations from the public, friends and family to support this epic effort to inspire people in need #WeCrossMountains
Sunday Walkers
If you can’t join us on Friday, the weekend or the whole 3-day walk, come along for The Last Leg, a half day walk to the finish line from
Lomo Pedro Afonso 12km to Arguineguín. Contact us for more details.
We cannot provide transport unless we have a minimum of 20 participants
The Last Leg – Oct 1
If you can’t join us for one day, the weekend or the whole 3-day walk, come along for The Last Leg, a half day walk to the finish line. From the mountains to the sea.
We will be walking 12km from Lomo Pedro Afonso to Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria. 25€ covers your insurance, gives you the opportunity to spur on The Long Walkers as they get ever closer to their goal and you even get an exclusive Long Walk t-shirt. If we have sufficient participation we can also arrange transport to the start point.
What’s more is you will be able to add to our total simply by asking people to donate on the basis that you will be walking 12km of trails with an epic team of adventurers walking in to Arguineguín on Oct 1
The Last Mile
Join us at El Pajar for The Last Mile to the finish line, joining with The Long Walkers, the Last Leg Cheerleaders, and anyone else who wants to join us for our moment of triumph, our eleventh anniversary walking coast-to-coast for Women & Families, Fighters & Survivors on Gran Canaria
The Big Picture
Our final act of the event, down on the Playa de Las Marañuelas beach, one last image of solidarity, joining everyone together in a photograph of defiance against adversity,
Whether you’ve walked the whole way, or part of it, or you are there to support someone who has; whether you want to remember someone who has suffered, or someone who has succeeded in their own personal challenge, we want to see you there, and proud to be part of this epic community event we call The Long Walk.
See you on the trail. x
#WeCrossMountains
#OneStepAtATime
#TheLongWalk
More than €100,000 donated since 2011
Since our first fundraising event, at Sioux City in 2011 we have directly donated more than €100,000, and through the various other events and projects The Long Walk has inspired and collaborated with, we have helped raise many tens of thousands more for local charities. We started working with English language newspaper, The Canary News, and the founders of Maspalomas PRIDE Gran Canaria, GLAY (Gay & Lesbian Associates of Yumbo) raising money for the aids charity ACES, and focused on our local breast cancer association, the ACCM, but since then we have gone on to make large donations to The Food Project in Mogán (Proyecto Vecinal de Alimentos de Mogán) helping families out of poverty, and Fundación Foresta, planting trees and helping to reforest our island, including the beginnings of our own little woodland reserve at the top of the island.
Join The Long Walk
Join us for 1, 2 or 3 days, enjoy the mountains of Gran Canaria surrounded by amazing company whilst you support important local causes on our island.