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Our Corporate Partners

Blackstone Consultancy’s

Hadrian’s Wall trek set to

raise £25,000 for Pink Ribbon

Foundation

Leading London-based security firm and Security Institute Corporate Partner, Blackstone Consultancy is well on the way to hitting
an ambitious fundraising target of £25,000 for Pink Ribbon Foundation, having trekked the length of Hadrian’s Wall.

The four-day trek that took place last month saw the hikers travel a distance of 84 miles (104km) from the west to east of the
historic wall, starting in Carlisle and finishing in Newcastle. Aiming to raise both awareness and funds to help women facing breast
cancer during this tough and unprecedented time, the team travelled the width of the country, walking alongside the boundary
wall, which was built in 122 AD.

Blackstone Consultancy’s team of Chartered Security Professionals and intelligence specialists operate worldwide from capital
cities to some of the world’s most notorious trouble spots. With many of them having military and law-enforcement backgrounds,
they’re not ones to shy away from serious physical and mental challenges, but this was no mean feat. The tough challenge covered
distances of up to 19 miles per day and a variety of terrain including river paths, farmland, rugged moorland and open salt
marshes.

The six specialists from the security firm who undertook the mammoth trek - Simon Giddins CSyP, Chris Moses MSyI, Rob Bates,
Tom Tahany, Dave Neal and Rufus Caldecott – have so far raised over £24,300 for the Foundation. Also participating was Simon
Bennett from YOU Digital, Simon Aitken from Gauntlet Insurance and Adonis Pouroulis from Pella Resources. The team have kindly
been sponsored by Cigna, Ecclesiastical, I-Farm, Prestige Valuations & YOU Digital.