Lymington veterans breakfast club raises £4,000 for Royal British Legion and Scotty's Little Soldiers charity

ARMED forces veterans and supporters presented a cheque for £4,000 to Lymington’s Poppy Appeal organisers.

The funds were raised by 27 members of the town’s veterans breakfast club who took part in the local Remembrance Walk.

Setting out from Milford War Memorial Hospital at 6.15am on 11th November, the walkers took a 21km trek around five war memorials on the Forest before arriving back at Lymington’s in time for the two-minute silence at 11am.

Lymington Poppy Appeal organiser Jean Barras accepted the £4,000 cheque from the walkers on behalf of the town’s Royal British Legion and Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a charity dedicated to supporting bereaved service children.

Mrs Barras said: “This is another magnificent effort by the walkers and we are very grateful for this donation which has helped push our total to over £26,000 for this year’s Poppy Appeal.”

Walk stalwart Andrew Miller, who works as a senior sales partner at Travis Perkins, said: “We are hugely proud that in the past three years we have raised almost £10,000 for the Lymington Poppy Appeal and other service charities.

“We are already looking forward to 2023 when we have plans to make the walk even larger.”