Fundraiser for strandings

Gareth Logan, 24, and Will Brawn, 22, plan to get from their home town of Polzeath to Lands Ends – just over half of the entire length of North Cornwall – by walking and paddleboarding.

They hope to raise at least £1000 for Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine Strandings Network.

Logan will be doing the yomping and Brawn, a keen surfer, the seagoing on a 4m ocean paddleboard (to a design used by rower-turned-adventurer James Cracknell to cross the English Channel in 2005, apparently).

They expect to take a fortnight to complete the trip, departing on 1 September given suitable weather. The aim each day will be to keep each other in sight and rendezvous back ashore to camp overnight.

Both musicians, Logan and Brawn also plan several evening gigs with their band, Droptone, with attendant raffles offering donated prizes, to maximise their fundraising effort.

Updates, including expedition progress and confirmed gig/raffle dates, will appear at www.justgiving.com/savecornwallsdolphins, where donations can be made.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine Strandings Network, in existence for the past 17 years, has 100 volunteers trained to examine, record and photograph dead marine animals.

It is authorised to retrieve corpses for post mortem at the Institute of Zoology, with which it works in partnership. Its analysed data is published and shared with the Natural History Museum for inclusion in the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme database.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine Strandings Network – www.cwtstrandings.org