‘Chris Lewis Walks the UK’ merchandise now available

18 July 2023

After six long years, former Paratrooper Chris Lewis – walking the UK coastline for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity and raising hundreds of thousands of pounds in the process – is nearly at journey’s end. On July 29, he will complete his 17,000-mile walk at Llangennith Beach, where he stepped off from on August 1, 2017.

To mark this momentous occasion, SSAFA has created a range of memorabilia comprising a mug, coaster, and fridge magnet, with profits going to the UK’s oldest tri-service charity.

For anyone – and they number thousands – following Chris’s odyssey, which saw him isolated during a lockdown, but more happily, seeing Jet, Kate, and Magnus enter his life, these items will make an ideal keepsake.

The mug is £10.99, the coaster £3.49, and the fridge magnet £3.49. They are available as part of the “Chris Walks the UK” range available exclusively here.

But what is the point of a mug with nothing in it? SSAFA also stocks WWII-themed tea caddy with 40 Ceylon teabags (£6.99) or for a stronger caffeine kick there is Op WELFARE ground coffee from Contact Coffee Co. (£9 for a 227g pouch).

And if relaxing with a brew, then a good read seems in order, so why not choose Chris’s first book about his travels, Finding Hildasay? It, too, is available on the SSAFA Store