Artist and artwork instructor Stephen Yates, 71, and his Labrador collie Jack, walked 270 miles from his home on Portland to his birthplace in Yorkshire.
In doing so he raised greater than £3,000 for kids’s charity the NSPCC.
He has beforehand supported the trigger by operating the London Marathon and trekking the Great Wall of China.
In addition to elevating the sum of £3,245, the hike – which was accomplished in reminiscence of his mom who died earlier this yr aged 95 – additionally helped Stephen heal from previous trauma.
As a sufferer of kid abuse himself, he has all the time felt a robust affinity for the charity and has described the walk as a “cathartic” expertise as he returned to the childhood home the place the abuse occurred.
He stated: “The walk was for me about going home, about going again to that place. I had a way that this might assist me course of what had occurred to me. What I discovered was that I didn’t fairly match there anymore.
“The factor I’ll keep in mind most is the individuals I met alongside the way in which, they have been complete strangers to me, however they confirmed such kindness. It was an exquisite expertise, to take that point to go searching your environment and take issues in – you don’t get that point fairly often. I used to be additionally in a position to return to the locations I frolicked in as a toddler.
“It has totally changed, and it was not the place I remember as a child. My memories are strong and quite powerful, and it was good to revisit that. It was worth it, and it made me very humble about meeting so many strangers who were so kind.”
Along the journey, Stephen additionally visited the home the place his mom had grown up, assembly up along with his brother – who offered help alongside the walk.
Stephen can also be internet hosting an artwork exhibition of ceramics and work impressed by his trek, entitled The Journey, at Shaftesbury Arts Centre which is operating this week till Saturday, December 2.
He stated: “I am absolutely over the moon, I was shocked to raise so much. I was aiming to raise £1,500 so to more than double that is fantastic and hope will help fund vital services for children.”
More details about the exhibition may be discovered on the Shaftesbury Arts Centre website.
