New fundraiser The Big West End Walk in aid of Acting for Others is taking place this September around the West End.
Organised by the West End Charity Football Club, The Big West End Walk will take place on 10 September 2023, starting at 10am.
West End stars and celebrities are set to join the team for the 12.5 mile route, which will tour 52 West End and Off West End theatres.
Those already confirmed to join include Crazy For You star Charlie Stemp; Come From Away and Then, Now & Next star Alice Fearn; Laura Dawkes – the forthcoming new Anna in Frozen The Musical; Bradley Jaden (Les Misérables); J Richard-Noel (Six The Musical); Adam Pearce (Sunset Boulevard); Julie Atherton (The Book of Dust); and Jodie Sam Steele (Heathers The Musical), with more to be announced before September.
West End Charity Football Club members who will be walking on 10 September include Liam Doyle (Hairspray, Heathers), Jon Scott Clark (Miss Saigon, Mamma Mia!), Jonny Phillips (Les Misérables), Jo Parsons (Les Misérables), Robbie Scotcher (Blood Brothers, Mamma Mia), Michael Pickering (Jersey Boys, Jesus Christ Superstar), Alexander Day (Shrek, 9 to 5 The Musical), Sam O Rourke (Mary Poppins, Half a Sixpence), Ruaraidh Blackwood (The Yeoman of the Guard) and Ronnie Burden.
Nick Corre Photography will document the day in a photobook to be auctioned off after the event, and the walk will be extensively covered on social media.
West End Charity Football Club started in 2019 comprising of players who work in London’s theatre industry, celebrities, and some ex-professional footballers, raising money for Acting for Others, a fundraising organisation for a network of 14 UK theatrical and welfare charities supporting all theatre workers.
You can sponsor the event by donating at their Just Giving page.
Manager of the West End Charity Football Club, Jonny Phillips, said in a statement: “As a charity football club, we’ve been raising money for Acting for Others playing football matches up and down the country for around 4 years now. We’ve wanted to do something bigger and find new ways outside of the matches to raise even more money, this is the first of many challenges we will be setting ourselves across the next few years. Acting for Others helped me and my family in the past when we hit a hard patch, and I know how much incredible work they do supporting others in the performing industry. This is our chance to give back and help raise as much as we can for those that need it.”
