CAFOD’s Big Lent Walk: 200km in 40 days

JoinCAFOD and other Pilgrims of Hope taking on the Big Lent Walk this Jubilee year!Walk 200km in 40 days and be part of a massive team supporting people as they overcome poverty.

CAFOD are incredibly excited about the Big Lent Walk 2025 and would love you to join us as we walk, run, roll or stroll 200km across the Nottingham Diocese and beyond in the 40 days of Lent. Sign up at www.walk.cafod.org.uk.

You can walk when and where you choose, alone, with friends, fellow parishioners – or get your school involved and join with thousands of other children and young people!

This year CAFOD’sLent Appeal demonstrates the power of hope in action through the story of Lokho, a farmer and mother in northern Kenya. For nearly four years, her community experienced an unrelenting drought and was supported by CAFOD during the East Africa food crisis. Livestock perished, crops failed, and Lokho was left with no means to provide for her children. Yet, amidst this trial, hope persevered, nurtured by the faith and charity of her neighbour, who shared what they had with each other to survive.

Supported by CAFOD and local Caritas expert Wakera, Lokho and her community found strength in unity. With training, tools, and seeds funded by donations from parishioners in England and Wales, they planted kitchen gardens. Innovative shade nets protected the plants from the harsh sun while allowing rain to nurture the young crops. Now, Lokho not only feeds her family but also sells the extra produce, saving money and ensuring a safety net for future climate challenges. Your walking and fundraising would support people like Lokho.

In this Jubilee Year, Pope Francis has invited us to be tangible signs of hope for those of our brothers and sisters who experience hardships of any kind. The Big Lent Walk is an opportunity to join in asymbolic pilgrimage of solidarity and hope during this Jubilee year.  The money you raise by taking part in the BigLent Walk helps CAFOD support families in extreme poverty around the world.

Robert Hicklin from St Charles Borromeo Parish, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire completed the Big Lent Walk last year:

“The Big Lent Walk has been a wonderful experience for me, and my family has given me fantastic support in achieving my goals. Helping vulnerable families globally to feed themselves, especially in the face of climate change is so important. I feel honoured to have been able to play a small part in this campaign.”

Pope Francis writes in his decree for the Jubilee Year, “We are about to make a pilgrimage marked by great events, in which the grace ofGod precedes and accompanies his people.” Let us make this Lent a true journey of faith, “active in charity and steadfast in hope.”  

A better world needs all of us, join the challenge and find out more here: https://walk.cafod.org.uk/

Connect with others taking part across the Diocese by joining the CAFOD Nottingham Big Lent Walkers WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CR5OkPJG1fG0GviHtNawtK

Note: by joining this group you are consenting to join theCAFOD Nottingham WhatsApp Community and your number will be shared with CAFOD and other members of groups you join.