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Residents of Gravesend joined ellenor for its annual Twilight Walk, to raise funds for the charity.

ellenor supports those living with serious illnesses, and this event allows residents and families of ill people to meet.

This Twilight Walk was the biggest in the charity's history, and the money raised will be going towards helping the nurses.

Our Community Reporter, Henry Luck, reports.
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00:04The Twilight Walk is Eleanor's biggest event of the year where partners and the
00:12community turn up to paint the streets orange. This year around 15,000 people
00:19took part and walked around eight kilometres across Gravesend to raise
00:26money for the charity which supports people with serious illnesses.
00:31So we also want to thank the volunteers for coming out tonight and helping us with this event.
00:36It really enables us to man the roads and do all the remarkable things throughout the
00:42Twilight Walk so we're enormously grateful to all of the volunteers for their support
00:47and time on this special night. Well it's pouring it down here in Gravesend tonight
00:52but it certainly hasn't stopped all these people from turning up and supporting Eleanor
00:58in his charity Twilight Walk. For many people here this event has a deep personal connection
01:07because of friends and family. The hospice looked after my mum back in 2004
01:12and we couldn't have got through that we couldn't have got through it without them
01:16so yeah absolutely phenomenal so we go and visit all the staff patients and their families.
01:23So suddenly I lost my brother to prostate cancer a month before I was elected however I continue
01:32doing what I need to do in the community and realising how supportive the Eleanor model is.
01:42KMFN's presenter Numi has even taken part this year despite the fact that she broke her ankle
01:50in three different places just five months ago. Yeah I'm a little bit nervous this will be the
01:56furthest that I've walked since April and breaking my ankle but I've been working really hard on my
02:01physio and getting ready for today so I'm just going to give it my absolute best and see how we
02:06do.
02:07Money raised from the event will be going towards paying the nurses of Eleanor as well as all the care
02:14and support the charity provides meaning the mood here certainly wasn't blue. Henry Luck for Kane TV in Gravesend.
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