THAME business woman, Hilary Handley, a self-confessed high heels, handbags and hair dryer kind of girl, shocked pretty much everyone she knew, when she decided to walk 80 miles of the Dales Way for charity recently.
Taking such an enormous stride out of her usual comfort zone was Hilary’sway of raising money for Choko, a community linking project between areas in South Oxfordshire and South Africa.
The current fundraising project is a special needs centre in Kodumela, the World Vision Area Development Project where Hilary and her husband David, sponsor two children. A visit there in 2007 fired Hilary?s determination to help the people who live in an area where need is great, work is hard and hope is high.
After months of training walks in and around the Chilterns, Hilary took on the Dales Way from Ilkley to Bowness and raised
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