- Sat 17 May 2025
- Fundraising required
One Day Challenge
07:00
Age 18 & over
Sign up £20
Fundraise £200
- 25 miles walking
Event overview
Follow the Seagulls is a long-distance charity trek to help make sure no one has to face a brain tumour alone.
It’s your chance to do something truly incredible that matches your passion to help the 60,000 people in the UK who are afraid and alone because of their brain tumour diagnosis.
The Follow the Seagulls treks take place annually on the Isle of Wight, Whitby in North Yorkshire, the Fife Coastal Path in Scotland and Dartmouth in Devon.
What to expect
Get together with the wider group at the start of both days and at various points over the weekend, but you will step into the role of navigator on this self-supported walk.
There’ll be trails to stick to, and fellow walkers to join up with, but you’ll have to consult your maps which will be annotated to help you navigate your way around.
Whether you choose to walk alone or as part of a group, you will be ensured an amazing experience!
For someone considering this challenge in the future I’d say absolutely do it.. it an epic physical and mental challenge
Highlights
- Long distance walk surrounded by coastal views and fresh sea air
- Amble across stunning chalk downland
- Clifftop paths, seaside towns and remote beaches
- Regular checkpoints for energising refreshments
- Complimentary team dinner for 2-day or Saturday walkers
- Ideal for individuals, couples, teams of family, friends and colleagues
- Help brainstrust change the world for the brain tumour community
This event is part of Follow the Seagulls | Isle of Wight.
Event photos
- Teams
Itinerary
Saturday
The 50-mile challenge begins between 7am and 8am.
One-day challengers have the option of trekking on Saturday or Sunday.Sunday
The second day of the 50-mile challengers.
One-day challengers have the option of trekking on Saturday or Sunday.
How hard is it?
This event will really test your endurance. It will take all you've got to earn your finishers medal. You will need great map reading/orienteering skills and training is a must.
Solo walkers
Enter solo and meet people there!
Teams
Conquer the challenge as a team!
Walking as a team can be great motivation to keep you on track with your training, and with a shared fundraising target of £1,000 for team entries, you'll find it easier to smash your target and raise the vital funds that make all the difference.
Training
26 or 50 miles, on foot, is a long way. A full training schedule will be provided to get you in shape and challenge-ready!
Kit list
- Walking boots
- Walking socks
- Rucksack
- Lightweight waterproof trousers
- Hat, gloves and a thermal layer
- Sunglasses, hat and cream.
- Washproof plasters and pain killers
- Snacks, energy gels, quick release energy foods, electrolyte drink
- Water bottle or Camelbak hydration pack
- Mobile phone plus optional battery pack
- Walking sticks
- Coast
- Rural
- Toilets
- Check points
- Food stations
- Marshals
- Navigation required
- Point to point
- Single start
- Toilets
- Undulating
- Water stations
Overview
Day 1
Day 1 is a point-to-point route, starting from Cowes and covering the east of the isle's coastal path to finish in the beautiful town of Ventnor where you'll enjoy a complimentary dinner.
Your destination after a day's hiking along the coast where you'll enjoy a complimentary dinner.
Day 2
Day 2 is also a point-to-point route, starting from Ventnor, following the coastal path along the west of the isle, to the finish-line at Yarmouth where the team will welcome you home! The feeling of personal achievement will be immense at having completed a tremendous coastal challenge.
A sight to behold at the end of Day 2's epic coastal trek.
Maps
Day 1
Day 2
Navigation
You will need map reading/orienteering skills to keep you on track.
Refreshments
There are regular checkpoints with energising refreshments.
- Bring your own cup
- Public transport links
- Sustainability policy
This event recognises its responsibility to the environment beyond legal and regulatory requirements. It is committed to reducing its environmental impact and continually improving environmental performance as an integral part of the strategy and operating methods, with regular review points. Supporters, volunteers, beneficiaries, suppliers and other stakeholders are encouraged to do the same.
The organisers are committed to minimising the negative impact of this activity on the environment, and where possible for it to have a net positive impact on the environment.
To achieve this here are the steps taken:
- minimise waste
- promote recycling internally and with customers and suppliers
- minimise the environmental impact of resources
- ensure products and services meet or exceed all of the environmental legislation that relates to the charity organisation
- Map
- Medal
- Pre-race meal
- T-shirt
Included
You will be provided with:
- brainstrust t-shirt
- Map and map book
- Itinerary
- Complimentary meal on day 1
- Constant support from sign-up to finish line
- Medal
Not Included
- Warm Seagulls fleece - £12
- Travel to/from the event
- Accommodation
- Other meals
- Personal hiking gear (boots, clothing etc)
- Travel insurance
- Fundraising incentives
- Fundraising materials
- Fundraising required
- Fundraising support
- Submit fundraising up to 1 month after event
Brainstrust
Helping the brain tumour community to feel less alone and more in control.
brainstrust helps people diagnosed with a brain tumour, aiming to give everyone diagnosed access to the resources that will put them back in control. brainstrust enables brain tumour patients and carers to become resilient and to utilise brain tumour support resources from all providers to their full potential.
Fundraising
Get a free Follow the Seagulls hoodie if you double the fundraising target!
The challenge is to take on 26 miles in a day, all in support of the 30 people who are diagnosed with a brain tumour every day here in the UK.
For those 30 people, the road ahead looks scary and uncertain. By taking part in Follow the Seagulls, you'll aim to raise sponsorship to ensure that brainstrust can be there to help families feel less afraid, less alone and more in control.
Your support in this challenge could fund ten coaching sessions to give someone with a brain tumour the tools they need to cope.
If it wasn’t for brainstrust supporting me through my experience, I don’t know where I would be right now. They have been a lifeline for me and I can’t thank them enough.
- Age 18 & over
- Entries open
- Enter online
- Fundraising required
Entry fees
Entry fee
£20.00
Minimum sponsorship
£200.00
Give it a go! Teamwork and camaraderie are second to none. Clive 2024
For someone considering this challenge in the future I’d say absolutely do it. Not only was it an epic physical and mental challenge, it was also one of the most humbling and rewarding adventures I’ve been on. It was an incredible achievement and opportunity to truly see the best in people; sharing stories, support and collective goals. As the aches begin to fade, my gratitude for this amazing charity, and the people it has connected me with, just grows stronger and stronger. Sammy 2019
I rang brainstrust in the middle of the night, about 3am, when I was in a state. I was amazed that someone could care. I think she said ‘but you needed me now’ and since then that is the only thing I have ever felt from this charity – love support, friendship and care. Sarah
Other races at event
- Sat 17 - Sun 18 May
- #2 of 2
Two Day Challenge
07:00
Age 18 & over
Sign up £30
Fundraise £500
- 50 miles walking