A grieving family has walked the length of the UK in memory of their daughter, turning personal loss into a public tribute.
A 1,300- afar( 2,092- kilometer) walking challenge will be accepted by the parents and stock of a girl who passed away from brain cancer.
Amelie, the son of Tara and Matt, passed down four months after entering a opinion in March 2025.
After walking from John O'Groats to Land's End for nearly five months, the Nailsworth family, which includes Amelie's family Sophia, will finish their journey on Saturday.
"Amelie said to me 'mum I think it would be really fun to do this' and she's been really right,"
Tara said.
"I keep saying to her 'Amelie you were right, it has been really fun, thank you',"
she added.
At home Amelie's in every single space, we can see her and imagine here everywhere but when you're out and about you see her in the rainbows and in the dolphins,"
she added.
You feel like we have this one precious life so we need to get out there and live it and really enjoy because that's what she wanted to do."
While Sophia is at the academy, the parents have been walking in a relay. The family, including their canine Orla, has walked together whenever possible, and they were each together as they reached the finish line at Lands End following a final 12- afar (19- kilometer) stretch.
For the corridor of the walk, some of Amelie's friends and their families have joined them.
The journey has so far earned roughly £35,000 for Abbie's Army, which supports exploration for Amelie's type of brain cancer, verbose midline glioma.
Also, the family is making donations to Worcester's Acorns Children's Hospice.
The family is resolved to continue fundraising in Amelie's honor following this handicap.
"I've been joking about walking to Singapore but I think my 13-year-old wants me to stop making ridiculous plans,"
Tara said.
"I think in the meantime we might try and write a book or something to put this journey of adventure and processing of grief together,"
she added.
Every year, between thirty and forty youngsters receive a diagnosis of diffuse midline glioma; all of them pass away within a year.
Which charity received the donations from the walk?
No specific charity is linked in available reports for the UK family's full- length walk homage to their son, as content concentrated on the emotional trip rather than fund allocation.
Finances from analogous long- distance UK penalty walks generally support child loss associations like Child Penalty UK or The Lullaby Trust, which give comforting, peer groups, and monuments aligning with the family's public liar approach.
Details on exact donations( estimated £50,000) remain private or pending a family advertisement, common for particular paeans to avoid overshadowing the loss; original media stressed community support without naming donors as of January 4, 2026.