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GALLERY: Almost 1,000 women take a moonlight walk in Chichester
Almost 1,000 women turned out to walk in the moonlight at the weekend to raise money for St Wilfrid's Hospice.
The Moonlight Walk saw young and old alike tread the streets of Chichester in the dark to raise money for the hospice.
The event started at midnight on Friday (June 19) and carried on into the early hours of the morning taking a ten mile route around the city, from Westgate Leisure Centre, north through Summersdale, Graylingwell, and then back south past the city walls and the cattle market car park.
St Wilfrid's Hospice fundraiser Jill Dennison said: "It was just excellent, it was just such a lovely atmosphere.
"Although people live in Chichester, part of the route was through places in Chichester they didn't know existed.
"I think people found it a bit eerie walking down Church Road in Portfield.
"The fastest, although it wasn't a race, did it in two hours and ten minutes, the last did it in four hours, they all had breakfast and we got a lot of good feedback. It was gobsmacking to see everybody gathering together.
"People wanted to know when next year's one is."
Organisers are now waiting for the money pledged to be sent in and are hoping to have raised at least 50,000, through the entrants to the event.
Mrs Dennison said: "If everybody raised 100 we would be looking at 100,000. We would like to have raised between 50,000 and 70,000.
"It was a lot of hard work. It was like looking at a polaroid picture coming together, working on an idea and waiting to see it come together."
Walkers were given a warm up outside the Westgate Leisure Centre before they set off, and on their return were given a goodie bag of breakfast.
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