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Sikh businessman to walk 800 km to raise 1 million pounds
WSN Network

LONDON: A leading Sikh NRI property developer will undertake an 800-km walk from Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to the Parliament House in London to raise 1 million pounds for charity.

Balwant Singh Grewal, chairman of the India Association of London, will embark on the five-week walk on June 4 to raise money for research in bowel cancer and other bowel diseases for the St Mark’s Hospital at Harrow.  

Grewal, who was born in Punjab and has been living in London since 1958, has undertaken numerous walks for various charitable causes. 

He undertook a 4,096-km ‘charity walk’ last year from Amritsar to Kanyakumari in India and raised 100,000 pounds for institutes pursuing research in the field of cancer and HIV AIDS. A keen sportsman all his life, Bobby ran the London Marathon in just over 5 hours in 2001. The 70-year-old, popularly known as “Bobby”, announced his plan at the annual Baisakhi Dinner organised by the India Association here last night.

23 April 2008
 

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