As part of our celebration of Borlase's 400 years in Marlow, all students will be taking to the hills and woods above Marlow to complete an 8km, 12km or 16.24km sponsored walk to raise money for Mind and Marlow United Charities.

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About Mind...
Mind give advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding. Their 5 ways to Wellbeing are cornerstones of what we hold dear at Borlase for our students and our staff and this walk encapsulates them all.
Mind's goals are:
Staying well: Support people likely to develop mental health problems, to stay well.
Empowering choice: Empower people who experience a mental health problem to make informed choices about how they live and recover
Improving services and support: Ensure people get the right services and support at the right time to help their recovery and enable them to live with their mental health problem
Enabling social participation: Open the doors to people with experience of mental health problems participating fully in society
Removing inequality of opportunity: Gain equality of treatment for people who experience both mental health and other forms of discrimination
Organisational excellence: Make the most of our assets by building a culture of excellence.

In 2022/23, they responded to 130,000 queries, their information on mental health was accessed 23.3 million times, and they supported over 470,000 people through their Local Minds actions.

About Marlow United Charities...
Marlow United Charities, a charity dating back to Victorian times and formed through the merging of several old local charities in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
MUC's main charitable objective is ‘the prevention or relief of poverty’ and for many years this has taken the form of the distribution of food vouchers at the end of the Summer and Christmas term to needy homes and families in the town.
MUC are concerned to help the needy in the town. These are the single parent families; widows, elderly and poor; and those families on free school meals. MUC liaise with the local community service charities, like Meals from Marlow, Age Concern and social care services. Their gifts are by way of a voucher, which is redeemed in store for a Sainsbury’s Supermarket food voucher.

In 2020 MUC distributed 73 vouchers and this increased to 194 in 2021 and 303 in 2022. In 2023, we distributed a record 340 vouchers costing £25,000.