WEEK FOUR - FINAL RESULTS

The big day has arrived, the results are in. In this final week of our challenge every team pushed on and the gaps between teams closed dramatically. 

One team made the distance on our journey around the British Isles and slightly overshot Ashendon (finishing near Aston Sandford by my calculations!). Two other teams were hot on their heels and were just a bit short of the distance, finishing somewhere near Leamington Spa.

And so the winners of Ashendon Step Into Christmas are:

CONGRATULATIONS TO 

TEAM STEP IT UP 

You can add this medal to your social media and be very proud of yourselves!

The overall winner is of course the Bernie Bus Christmas Meals Appeal which has raised £3650 so far. Well over £1000 of that has come from the Ashendon Step into Christmas stepper and supporter donations and we contributed a further £100 raised in our week 3 sweepstake. 

Which brings me on nicely to the sweepstake results.

Ashendon steppers travelled a massive 16,711.90 KMs. That is almost 30% more than the distance around the entire coastline of the British Isles. And the winners of our Sweepstake are: 

1st (£25) - Team HeLEX who estimated 16754km (+42.1 km) 

2nd (£15) - Kerstein Family with an estimate of 16,804 km (+92.1 km)

3rd (£10) - Sue Lewin who estimated 16,608 km (-103.9 km)

I will be walking your prize money round today because I, among many others, intend to keep up my steps into Christmas!

Here is the final results table - there are some wonderful tales to tell of the efforts and experiences of all teams. I will pull those all together in a final report over the next few days. For now, all I can say is congratulations to all 72 steppers and a huge thank you to the many more people of Ashendon who gave so willingly and generously to support the challenge. Once again I say: Ashendon you are AMAZING!