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The English College Foundation is planning a sponsored walk to raise funds for scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, to enable them to study in the International Baccalaureate years at the English College in Prague. In the past such scholarships have funded talented students from the Roma community or who were raised in children’s homes.
Participants are free to choose how far they want to walk around places in London with a past or present Czech connection. They are welcome to stop at any point.
START: at 2.30pm at Kindertransport memorial inside Liverpool Street Station (meet at 2.15)
2. Bush House, Aldwych – Home of BBC Czech Service 1939-2006
3. King’s College, The Strand – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Professor of Slavic Research
4. Westminster Embankment – Battle of Britain Memorial
5. Westminster Abbey – Memorial plaque to Czechoslovak forces in WWII
6. 8-9 Grosvenor Place – Czechoslovak Presidency and Embassy during WWII
7. Kensington Palace Gardens – Czech Embassy and Cultural Centre
The last (optional) stretch, to Bohemia House, the Czechoslovak restaurant in West End Lane, West Hampstead, will be by bus or tube, depending on where diners have ended their walk (the meal is self-funding).
Distances (approximate)
1 to 2 via St Paul’s and Fleet Street 1.8 miles (60 mins)
3 to 6 via St James’s Park 2 miles (60 mins)
6 to 7 via Hyde Park 2.2 miles (30 mins)
MAX WALKING TIME – approx 3 – 3.5 hours (inc. stops)
There is a participation fee of £5 and participants should ask their friends to sponsor them with £2 per mile walked, or any other amount they feel able to donate.
TO JOIN and for more information please email janetgunn83@gmail.com
For more about the English College in Prague see https://www.englishcollege.cz
See also Never Forgotten – British Czech and Slovak Association (bcsa.co.uk)
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