A GROUP from a Woodstock-based company that develops devices for medical use has raised almost £3,000 for a cancer charity by completing the Glyme Valley Walk.

The team of 40 from Owen Mumford took on the sixteen-mile route from Chipping Norton to Woodstock, which was set up to celebrate the 1,000-year anniversary of Oxfordshire, and used it to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.

Workers from across the company’s manufacturing sites refused to be put off by the unfavourable conditions and steady rain on Saturday, September 10, and completed the walk in high spirits.

Event organiser and executive project manager for the firm, Paula Staples, said she received a stark reminder of the importance of the walk just as the group were setting off.

She said: “On my way to the start I got a text from a friend saying that her relative who is suffering from cancer had been admitted to hospital overnight.

“I was thinking of her and so many others I know who have been affected by cancer as I walked along.”

The walk also had a poignancy for supply chain manager Paul Currah.

He said: “I am one of the lucky ones to have survived cancer.

“This walk fell on my mother’s birthday who sadly lost her fight with the disease, so it’s a lovely and fitting tribute to her memory.”

To support the team visit justgiving.com/Owen-Mumford-Chipping-Norton-Woodstock