Help required on a big scale..

great stuff Jase, I'll sponsor you

Hi Jase..

I have raised approx £10k over the last few years from my Mount Kilimanjaro trek, driving across Europe and various social events...

Give me a shout if you want any ideas throwing your way.

How about coinciding it with a bank holiday week so that you can to go to a couple of Yorkie home and raise in their grounds on Match day?  

PM send. I work with the British Heart Foundation so can put you in touch with people there that can help with publicity and/or logistics.

Good luck!

If anyone can put a detailed route and plan together (better than my rough draft) that is manageable could they please get in touch? Got the Telegraph contacting me this week covering the idea, and therefore need to start putting things in place. Thanks to those who've messaged re idea/helping - appreciated, any ideas etc please share. Plus if anyone is good with putting together a fundraising/web page etc I could use some help also. Cheers

http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/JaseIves

For anyone who would like to donate, or let others aware of. Thanks

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Ok, couple of people offered help and donations etc - appreciated, decided I'm going to try and pull this off. Have a meeting planned with Mariners Trust, and one of charities on March 3rd at BP- with a view to getting this thing off the ground. Im taking bull by the horns and attempting to put things together roughly/develop plans. Thus far thinking off

Starting at York City Sun 31 July - arrive Leeds Utd Mon 1 Aug (overnight stay halfway somewhere)
Leeds U - Bradford City - 2 Aug
Bradford C to Halifax, Halifax to Huddersfield - 3 Aug.
Huddersfield T to Barnsley, Barnsley - Rotherham U - 4 Aug.
Rotherham - Sheff W, Sheff W - Sheff U - 5 Aug.
Sheff U to Chesterfield 6 Aug.
Chesterfield to Mansfield 7 Aug
Mansfield to Notts F, Notts F to Notts C 8 Aug.
Travel to Lincoln- overnight stay
Lincoln - Doncaster R 9/10 Aug (overnight stay)
Doncaster R - Scunthorpe 11/12 Aug (overnight stay)
Travel to Hull
Hull C - Grimsby T 13/14 Aug.
*all above open to change

Thats the plan. Next step is organising fund raising page, Facebook page, media interest as well as contacting all aforementioned clubs to promote and get people to join in. Also drinks,route plans, food, accomodation, interest, promotion, supplies, clothing, t-shirts etc etc.

Decided to go with Football Fans Charity Walk in hope of more people contributing, clubs/fans coming together to raise as much as possible in joint efforts. Going to also try to see if can get ex players or anyone known in whichever area to join in and help promote.

So..thats where I am at the moment. Anyone feel like assisting/joining/planning/participating/promoting/website etc please feel free to contact me - via here, or jaseives@virginmedia.com, or 07758 307346. And Facebook/twitter etc - and Rutland Arms pre home games, Pontoon P83 at games. Cheers

From your route I broken it down using AA router to get the mileage (starting and finishing from the named football clubs, avoiding motorways) per stage.
31st July - 1st Aug York To Leeds  approx 29.3 miles (overnight stay halfway)
2nd Aug  Leeds to Bradford approx 10.5 miles
3rd Aug Bradford to Halifax approx 10.1 miles
3rd Aug Halifax to Huddersfield approx 8.0 miles
4th Aug Huddersfield to Barnsley approx 18.2 miles
4th Aug Barnsley to Rotherham approx 12.0 miles
5th Aug Rotherham to Sheff Wed approx 7.7 miles
5th Aug Sheff Wed to Sheff Utd approx 4.3 miles
6th Aug Sheff Utd to Chesterfield approx 9.7 miles
7th Aug Chesterfield to Mansfield approx 16.1 miles
8th Aug Mansfield to Notts Forest aprrox 15.1 miles
8th Aug Notts Forest to Notts County approx 0.6 miles
Travel to Lincoln overnight stay
9th & 10th Aug Lincoln to Doncaster Rovers approx 38.6 (overnight stay halfway)
11th & 12th Aug Doncaster Rovers to Scunthorpe Utd approx 24.3 miles (overnight stay halfway)
Travel to Hull
13th & 14th Aug Hull City to Grimsby Town approx 30.6 miles

** Note - 4th Aug mileage is 30.2 miles in one day, IS THAT CORRECT **
Average walking speed is approx 3.1mph depending on the terrain, weather conditions etc

Total mileage 235.1

Overnight stays
31st July halfway between York & Leeds
1st Aug Leeds
2nd Aug Bradford
3rd Aug Huddersfield
4th Aug Rotherham
5th Aug Sheffield
6th Aug Chesterfield
7th Aug Mansfield
8th Aug Lincoln
9th & 10th Aug halfway between Lincoln & Doncaster
11th & 12th Aug halfway between Doncaster & Scunthorpe
13th Hull

Things to consider before you start :-  

It is advised that you drive/walk the whole route to get an idea of the terrain
How much traffic travels along the route
Adequate pedestrian lanes/safe distance from traffic
Toilet facilities along the route
Find out whether any planned roadworks or any other events scheduled on the route
If you require any permission to use any of the planned route (local bye-laws)
May need to speak to local councils highway agency
Speak to local police force - giving dates, route, approx size of party etc
Liability insurance cover - medical/damage to land & surrounding property etc.

Then you need to get on with the actual logistics

Cheers, still tinkering with route, made a cople of changes to initial plan. Thanks for the heads up re other stuff though, appreciated.

Decided to put this off for now, too much to organise etc on my own, and little interest from those I hoped might see the potential. May try again next year if supported, thanks to the couple of people who offered-appreciated.