Category: Charity

  • A Circular Walk From Monkseaton

    With just 5 weeks to go before our three day walking challenge from Bamburgh to Tynemouth in order to raise funds for Maggies in Newcastle, we set off on our latest training walk. It is hard to believe that you can walk for 23 miles in North Tyneside and South East Northumberland without walking past…

  • A walk around North Tyneside

    Where else would you want to be on your first wedding anniversary than with your touch rugby family rather than your loving husband !! That’s exactly where Cat, one of the founder members of Blackadders touch rugby team chose to spend the first 6 hours of her Saturday before being swept away later for a…

  • Wylam to Newcastle and back again, completed.

    As part of our preperation for our big charity walk in the summer, we decided to put some miles in again to get us prepared for the challenge in the summer. Today (06/03/22) we went from Wylam to Newcastle and back again, travelling along the Tyne river. Making sure to get the excellent views in,…

  • North Tyneside Three Peaks – Completed

    On Saturday 12th February a group of us met up to complete a 13.1 mile training walk, in preparation for our big charity walk (100km over 3 days in June). We decided we would tick off the North Tyneside Three Peaks, taking into account the three hills in the area; the sun dial at West…

  • Blackadder’s raising funds for Maggie’s Centre

    Charity Competition Vests As some of you will know next year marks Blackadder’s 15th Anniversary as a team and to help make it memorable we have decided to hold our very own charity competition on 9th July 2022.  Our chosen charity is Maggie’s, a local charity based at the Freeman Hospital, who help support cancer…

  • Charity Touch Thursday 4th July

    Thursday 4th July will be a charity touch session at Rockcliff Rugby Club, minimum donation of £2 for adults and £1 for juniors.  All funds raised are to go towards Myeloma UK. This is the chosen charity of one of our regular attendees, who is taking part in the Great North Run to support their…