![]() Parking is available just minutes away from the Angus Barn. ![]() Flags can also be carried on the Walk proudly! Once you have a flag, for each subsequent year your team raises $5,000 or more, we will attach a patch with that year on it! If your team is registered and/or donating, your flag will wave from the Angus Barn wall along Route 70 the week of the Walk. It’s delicious incentive to raise more – and as always, 100% of the funds raised by participants and teams goes directly to fund mental illness research.Īnd if you really want to go for the gold, teams who raise $5,000 or more earn a custom flag printed with their team name for next year’s event. Team captains for teams that raise $500 or more over the minimum registration fee total for each team member receive an invitation to our annual Team Captain Kickoff event in August. Our teams are so incredibly important to the success of the Walk for Hope each year! Did you know that teams raise 70% of our walker income each year? Teams must consist of a minimum of 5 people, so gather 4 or more friends or family members to join you on a team, and get brainstorming! Registration is now OPEN for the 2022 Walk for Hope! We believe research is hope, and hope keeps us moving forward.ĭon’t call it a comeback, but we’re doing our IN-PERSON Walk this year! Let’s go further and do more than ever before. Your dedication leads us to record-breaking goals in numbers and funds raised. Your passion helps us touch more and more lives in our community, across our nation, and around the world. ![]() And, just as critically, it helps call attention to the stigma and significance of these often invisible illnesses, which now due to the pandemic affect as many as one in three American adults. After the walk is over, we celebrate our achievement with a family-friendly afternoon of food, games, music and prizes.Ĭan’t make it this year, or prefer to walk or run with us from afar? You can still make an impact by joining us VIRTUALLY instead or making a DONATION! It’s more important than ever to support mental illness research right here in the Triangle.ġ00% of the money raised by participants directly funds local mental illness research at the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry. In the 33 years since it began, our flagship charity event has helped raise millions of dollars towards better understanding of and treatments of mental illnesses like depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, postpartum depression, schizophrenia and anorexia.Įach year, thousands of participants come together at the Angus Barn in Raleigh to walk or run a 5K route to show solidarity for family, friends and community members living with a mental illness. 34th Annual Thad & Alice Eure Walk for Hope walk, run & festival The Angus Barn
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