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Missing tiles and poor pointing Buddleia on west face
St Judeʼs tower Michael crossing the finish line
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(Photo: Amy Mace)
stronger than ever All roads lead to Rome
&
with help from our friends MYKE JACOBS former Chairman and Trustee of
After retiring from my roles as
have now completed my 1,128 Kidasha, my wife, Ruth and I
DAVID WHITE to the structural flaws exposed in mile charity trek, walking the embarked on charity treks to
Lutyens’ original design for the I equivalent distance of London continue our support of Kidasha.
esidents will recall the saga tower. That said, the tower is now to Rome. I began the challenge 13 Since 2006, we have physically
of the weathervane that stronger than when it was first months ago on 1 April 2021, and walked through Nepal’s Himalaya
R blew out during Storm built. The lead tiles on the spire thanks to my supporters (including and Annapurna mountain ranges
Barney in November 2015 and the that look a different colour to the Suburb News readers) have raised – and even reached Everest Base
appeal that St Jude’s launched in rest of the spire are replacements over £16,500 for Nepal children’s Camp in 2008.
early 2021 to repoint the tower for those damaged when the old charity, Kidasha. All of the funds raised from the
using the scaffolding that was weathervane blew out of the spire. Diagnosed as clinically trek will support Kidasha’s work to
erected to enable the weather- They will weather over time. The extremely vulnerable due to a improve the lives of children living
vane to be replaced. old weathervane is now on display health condition, I was faced with in chronic poverty in Nepal. This
The repairs took until early in inside St Jude’s. completing my trek whilst staying includes working to end child
2022 to finalise and the cost was St Jude’s was able to kickstart safe. As a result, I decided to exploitation by providing homeless
much higher than originally its campaign to restore the tower, cover the London to Rome distance children with safe shelter, helping
anticipated. That was largely down part of which might have fallen using the space provided by a children into education, and working
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away had St Jude’s not had access secluded field behind my house. to help the most marginalised
from the scaffolding, thanks to the Over the last year, I have completed escape poverty.
generous support it received from the equivalent of 12,400 laps of To support Kidasha’s fund-
Historic England, who contributed the field – 2.65 million steps – in raising efforts, please visit: Myke’s
£46,665 from the outset and for support of Kidasha. In fact, my ‘Trek to Rome without ever
which St.Jude’s is very grateful. track is so well worn that you can leaving home’ fundraising page.
St Jude’s then received a further see it from space – https://bit.ly/ To learn more about Kidasha,
grant of £25,000 from Historic 3OH4VTZ. please visit: https://kidasha.org/.
England after the structural flaws
were discovered. Big Wood bluebells were plentiful and looked
St Jude’s is hugely grateful for
the support it also received from particularly stunning this year.
HGS Trust, HGS Residents
Association and the local
community who all contributed
towards the restoration costs.
Suburb readers will be aware
that the old weathervane contained
two time capsules. The new
weathervane also contains two
time capsules, one detailing the
contractors who worked on the
project and the other containing
materials relating to the appeal.
Full details of what is in the time
capsules can be found at https://
tinyurl.com/2zwrmhje.
With grateful thanks from the
parishioners of St Jude-on-the-Hill
After the repairs for your support.
Photos:
David White
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