Runcorn 'bus walker' raises thousands of pounds for food bank charity

A bus driver based at the Runcorn Depot has completed a challenge to walk 150 miles over 7 days to raise money for Trussell Trust Food Banks. 

Neil Atherton has been a bus driver for 20 years and says he was seeing customers and friends struggling to make ends meet in the pandemic.

He decided to walk all of the bus routes that come from his depot in Runcorn, to raise awareness of the importance of food banks and make some money to help support them.

He called the challenge 'Cirque Du Sore Legs'. The routes he walked over 7 days totalled 150 miles, which is the equivalent of walking from Liverpool One Bus Station, to Luton Town Centre.

So far more than £4,000 has been raised through his Just Giving page. The money will go directly to Trussell Trust Food Banks