World Down Syndrome Day: Sycamore House Day Nursery staff raise money for charity with sponsored 10-mile walk in Bishop’s Stortford
Staff at a Bishop’s Stortford children’s nursery completed a 10.2-mile fundraising walk in recognition of World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD).
The sponsored walk took staff at Sycamore House Day Nursery in Hadham Road on three laps of a route from Castle Gardens in the town centre to Bat Willow Hurst Country Park at St Michael’s Hurst and back.
It has so far raised more than £1,200 for Harlow-based charity Upwards with Downs. The walk took place on Saturday March 23.
On WDSD itself two days earlier (March 21), staff and children at the nursery marked the occasion by wearing colourful odd socks.
The idea was created because chromosomes are shaped like socks and people with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome.
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