Bath Abbey Footprint Walk 5-11 July 2015

An intrepid few from the Footprint team, including Edward Mason, Charles Curnock, Jeremy Key-Pugh and Laura Brown, will be taking on a 140 mile sponsored walk from Bath to London, beginning on Sunday 5 July and ending at Lambeth Palace on Saturday 11 July. You can sponsor the team on this page, any money raised will go towards the £4.5million target for the Footprint project. Thank you so much in advance for your support of the Footprint walkers. What is Bath Abbey Footprint? Footprint is an £19.3 million programme of capital works and interpretation which will provide innovative and sustainable solutions to our needs including: •Stabilising the ground beneath the Abbey floor •Tapping into Bath’s greatest natural resource and heating the Abbey using energy from the hot springs •Adapting the interior of the Abbey so that it better expresses the faith and practice of the Abbey community and is more inviting for worship •Installing energy efficient lighting and providing storage for staging •Opening a new Song School for our Choirs and our expanding singing programme for local primary and secondary schools •Providing a modern, welcoming refectory where all our visitors can, at last, spend a little more time with us and enjoy our hospitality •Creating 200 square metres of new space to provide a contemporary interpretation centre which will act as the hub for projects and activities displayed throughout the Abbey