Pictured above: standing - Liz Wildhaber, Robert Hill and
Lilly Toop; seated are Rachel Gaffney and Felicity
Fisher
Six brave solicitors from regional heavyweight law firm Freeth
Cartwright, are taking to the road to raise funds for law centres
and other legal advice charities based in the Midlands.
Lily Toop, Elizabeth Wildhaber, Chris Golland, Rachel Fletcher,
Robert Hill and Felicity Fisher are hoping to complete the 10k
walk.
The idea of the walk is to raise money for advice agencies that
are under threat to enable them to provide services to enable
ordinary people to have access to justice. In the Midlands there is
an existing trust that is extremely well run and which has already
raised funds for a law centre in Birmingham and another in
Chesterfield.
In September 2008 the first 10k Midland legal walk took place,
based on the hugely successful 10k London Legal Support Trust Walk.
The Midland walk raised over £12,000. The walk attracted over
200 walkers from across the legal profession. The funds raised have
been distributed to support a number of agencies in the voluntary
sector, including a project to assist those individuals who face
repossession of their homes.