By Isle of Wight Observer
With just a short time left to sign up to Walk the Wight 2025, Mountbatten wants your help to create a garden of sunflowers, to celebrate the iconic event’s 35th anniversary, on Sunday, 11 May.
Draw, paint, knit, crochet, colour in, mould, sculpt or even build a sunflower — the enduring image of your local hospice charity. Just drop your sunflower into Mountbatten in Halberry Lane, Newport.
Walk the Wight started in 1991, when Islanders Bill Bradley and Frank Stevens organised a team-building walk for 25 colleagues from H.W. Moreys, a local timber and builders’ merchant. By its second year, the walk had attracted 120 participants, raising funds for both an MRI scanner for the hospital and the hospice.
You can still sign up to take part in Walk the Wight via iw.observer/register-walk-the-wight. Registration costs £15 per person.
