{"id":2641,"date":"2014-02-05T16:09:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?2641"},"modified":"2014-02-05T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:09:17","slug":"mansfield-men-raise-6000-in-charity-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/mansfield-men-raise-6000-in-charity-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansfield men raise \u00a36,000 in charity walk"},"content":{"rendered":"
Five men from Mansfield have made a huge difference to one charity after walking from Newcastle to their home town.<\/p>\n
Geoff Hall, Jamie Bowler, Liam Ansty, Rene Close and Stuart Wardman are due to hand over around £6,000 to the charity as a result of their efforts, reports the Mansfield Chad.<\/p>\n
They covered around 150 miles after starting off at Newcastle United's St James's Park and heading through the towns of Darlington, Thirsk, York and Doncaster on their way home.<\/p>\n
Mr Hall explained the hardest part of the journey had been between Thirsk and York, as they had to take a detour to avoid the heavy rain and danger on the A19.<\/p>\n
"There were also a few sore knees and blisters, but we were all pretty determined to make it and helped each other through," he added.<\/p>\n
When they arrived back in Mansfield, they were given a "fantastic" reception from more than 200 people who had gathered to greet them.
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A walk from Newcastle to Mansfield has raised £6,000 for Help for Heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-support-soldiers"],"yoast_head":"\n