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Is it Mission Impossible for Joe 90?
The ANSWER .... NO!!
On April 1st - the day of My Father's Birthday (he would have been 138!!) I acheived my ambition to walk the equivalent of John O’Groats to Land’s End before I turn 91.
The journey commenced on July 6th last year, on the day of my 90th birthday, and 269 days later at an averag
Is it Mission Impossible for Joe 90?
The ANSWER .... NO!!
On April 1st - the day of My Father's Birthday (he would have been 138!!) I acheived my ambition to walk the equivalent of John O’Groats to Land’s End before I turn 91.
The journey commenced on July 6th last year, on the day of my 90th birthday, and 269 days later at an average of 3.24+ miles per day I 'reached' Lands End.
The mission to raise £12,000 for five charitable institutions doesn't stop yet though. We are over half way there and the push is now on toward a final 'Triumphant' march in to Lands End on 6th July, my 91st Birthday with the aim to exceed a total of 1,000 miles over the year and get those collection tins ratlling!
As a reminderThe Rotary Club of Kimbolton Castle Charitable Trust will administer and distribute the donations to the five charities, namely the Salvation Army (and specifically their work in Chickankata, Zambia), the RAF Benevolent Fund, the Brainstrust, Mwandi School for Aids Orphans, Zambia, and the International PolioPlus Programme.
I am confident with all your help I can reach my target and each will receive a minimum of £2,000.
The plan is still to complete a live walk into into Land’s End on 6th July. I hope to see you there or at least along the way as I continue my walks around the parts of England I continue to visit.
Updates will be posted regularly here and by all means join me on my daily walk. www.Joe90Walk.co.uk
A resident of St Neots with my wife Jean since 2016, with whom I will shortly celebrate their 66th wedding anniversary, my motto in life is very simple – ‘You Are Never Too Old to Do Anything’ - and he and Jean remain active on many fronts. Jean as a member of the WI, and the Eynesbury Methodist Church Women’s Group and assisting at the Busy Bees Nursery, and Joe, not surprisingly, as a member of the St Neots Wellbeing Walks and the local St Neots Probus Chapter, as well as the Men’s Churches Together Group. They share 2 sons, Duncan and Stewart with their partners and 7 Grandchildren and 5 Great Grandchildren spread between Oxfordshire and Australia as the photos above lay testament to.
Prior to retirement Joe’s working life covered three distinct careers. Firstly, as a Musician/Bandmaster in the Royal Air Force Music Services and many other musical ensembles around the world, and secondly as a music teacher. He also worked at the Ministry of Defence as a Personal Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Portillo (Conservative) and George Robertson (Labour), before retiring to live in Spain in 2000.
Home for Aids Orphans was established and registered as a non-profit NGO in Zambia in 2005. The village of Mwandi, where we work and live is in Western Province it is the poorest area of Zambia with little infrastructure.
We strive to better the lives of the community in several areas. We have built 211 homes for the most vulnerable fa
Home for Aids Orphans was established and registered as a non-profit NGO in Zambia in 2005. The village of Mwandi, where we work and live is in Western Province it is the poorest area of Zambia with little infrastructure.
We strive to better the lives of the community in several areas. We have built 211 homes for the most vulnerable families in the village since 2007, the families who we build for help us and our volunteers in the building process. We have sponsored over 150 students through high school and 50 through college. We engage the community to help themselves. We believe education is the key to the success of any country.
In 2019 we opened Compass Zambia community school for preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade. We added another class each year as we were able to build them. It proved to be a great success. As of January 2025, we had over 440 students and 9 teachers going from preschool through 7th grade. In September 2025 we handed the running of the school over to the Ministry of education and the community committee. We are scheduled to start building a “Trade School” in January 2026, we will complete it by the end of the year. In January 2027 we will open and start training our youths in IT and plumbing as well as English as a second language. The nearest trade schools are over 4 to 6 hours from our village making it impossible for our youths to access. This will be the first Trade school in Mwandi District, that has a population of 33,000. Mwandi Village has a population of over 8000 people.
