FLAGSHIP EVENT TO BE HELD AT LLANELLI’S NORTH DOCK

Llanelli’s Millennium Coastal Park has been chosen as the Welsh location to host the Alzheimer’s Society’s flagship fundraising event.

The Memory Walk is due to take place on Sunday, September 25 at the Festival Fields with some 3,000 walkers expected.

Plans are underway to create an event village with on site food and live entertainment as part of a series of sponsored walks across England, Wales and Northern Ireland

The aim is to help fund local services for people affected by dementia as well as ploughing money into research in to care, prevention and cure with some 850,000 people being diagnosed with the condition in the UK.

Walkers will have the option of choosing a short accessible route or a longer, more challenging one. The event will start at 10am until 2pm and both walks will start at 11am

The council’s executive board member for leisure, Cllr Meryl Gravell said: “This is a real coup for us to have been selected by the Alzheimer’s Society to hold this event, it just goes to show what Llanelli North Dock has to offer our visitors as well as its diversity to hold all kinds of events.  More importantly, we all know someone who has been affected by this debilitating condition so it’s important we raise as much money as possible by taking part in this walk.”

According to the Alzheimer’s Society 40,000 younger people than ever before suffer from dementia in the UK. Family carers of people with dementia save the UK £11 billion a year. Some 80 per cent of people living in care homes have a form of dementia or severe memory problems.

If you are interested in taking part then you’ll need to register in advance at www.memorywalk.org.uk