The New Weddington Isles - Athletics news

November Charity Run Cancelled Due to Covid - New Weddington Wanderers Team Transfer Registration to April 2022 Run

1/10/2021

Important update from the New Weddington Wanderers team (His Lordship John Brookes, Lord Watitune / Chris / Clare / Mark / Michael / Emily / Leona).

PLEASE NOTE - THIS RUN HAS BEEN MOVED FROM NOVEMBER 2021 TO APRIL 2022 DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS. DONATIONS ALREADY MADE HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED OVER TO THE UNHCR FUNDRAISING TOTAL.

The New Weddington Wanderers Team are running raising funds for Australia for UNHCR. Australia for UNHCR help support the 82.4 million refugees and displaced people around the world, and recent events in Afghanistan show just how fortunate we are not to be among them. These traumatised people on the news bulletins aren't fiction, they could be your child, your parent, your loved ones, you.

https://canberramarathon22.grassrootz.com/unrefugees/john-brookes/donate

New Weddington Wanderers gearing up to Run for Afghanistan

18/8/2021

As a general rule we don't put out sponsorship/donor calls to our fellow micronations, but in this case we are making an exception. His Lordship John Brookes, Lord Watitune, will be running a fundraising race along with other representatives of the New Weddington Wanderers athletics team (thanks Chris, Clare, Mark, Michael, Emily and Leona) in Canberra on 7th November.

This is to to raise funds for “Australia for UNHCR”. Australia for UNHCR help support the 82.4 million refugees and displaced people around the world, and recent events in Afghanistan show just how fortunate we are not to be among them. These traumatised people on the news bulletins aren't fiction, they could be your child, your parent, your loved ones, you.

If you are minded to part with a few dollars/pounds/groats etc - even just the price of a cafe latte - it all makes a difference, really, in helping out those who need it, especially at this tragic time. Of course, if you are not in a position to donate then no worries - we all do our part in different ways, for different people and that's fine – in that case all I ask is that you post about how slimline, well-aged and fit our team are looking when we publish the finish line pics on Facebook 😁 (ps: amounts on link are in AUS$).

https://canberrafunrun2021.grassrootz.com/unrefugees/john-brookes/donate

A Sporting Weekend of Highs and Lows for New Weddington

12/4/2021

Well it was a weekend of 2 halves for the New Weddington Warriors Aussie Rules Football teams this weekend with the Men's side suffering a second loss in 4 rounds to cement their places in mid-table at 11th. More disappointingly, an updated score due to a technical glitch on the Women's AFL website saw the New Weddington Women's team final placing for the season slide from 7th to 11th. Still a great achievement for a first season in the game though.

On a more positive note, the New Weddington Wanderers athletics mob completed the Canberra Marathon Festival yesterday. Lord Watitune himself took part and $200 was raised for charity. Coming the day after the sad passing of HRH Prince Phillip, the decision was made by all runners in the team to donate this to "Fields in Trust" a charity dedicated to preserving green spaces for future generations of which His Royal Highness was President for over 60 years.

More dates are being added to the Athletics calendar for 2021, and of course the Aussie Rules Mens league still has plenty of rounds to go...so watch this space!

New Weddington Wanderers to Run in Memory of HRH Prince Philip

10/4/2021

Lord Watitune has announced that the funds raised by the New Weddington Isles Wanderers athletics team at tomorrow's Canberra Running Festival shall be donated to the Fields in Trust Charity, of which HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, was President for over 60 years, championing a lasting legacy of parks and green spaces protected forever to ensure people will always have places to play and be active.

New Weddington Wanderers back in action next week!

4/4/2021

Fresh (?) from the International Peace Walk, the New Weddington Isles' athletics team - aka The New Weddington Wanderers - will be back in action next weekend, competing in the less sedate Canberra Marathon Festival!

This challenging run will be even more challenging given we thought it was in 3 weeks not one!! Still, undaunted the Wanderers will gather at 7.30am on Sunday 11th April alongside thousands of other competitors from around the globe to represent our micronation.

More updates after we cross the Finish Line!

World Peace Walk DAY TWO

28/3/2021

Lord Watitune proudly displays his International Peace Walk medal - a non-competitive event held over 2 days, where His Lordship led a team of fourteen 'New Weddington Wanderers' in officially representing the micronation alongside 40 other nations - ranging from the UK, Tonga, Italy, US, Japan and many others.

Watch out for more 'New Weddington Wanderers' activity soon!

World Peace Walk DAY ONE: New Weddington Wanderers in Action

27/3/2021

The weather was warm and sunny for the International Peace Walk in Canberra this weekend - the New Weddington Isles was represented along with 35 other national teams, from Australia to UK to Fiji and Japan... fielding a 'New Weddington Wanderers' team of fourteen, including Lord Watitune himself.

Further recognition of the Isles' status was demonstrated at this event, with Lord Watitune being invited among other national representatives to ring the World Peace Bell that marks to start of the event (see below)... more pics will be posted after the event.

New Weddington Wanderers - the Isles' Athletics Campaign at the Start Line

23/3/2021

With the Cricket season over and the EPL and Women's AFL drawing to a close, we are now able to commence our Athletics campaign for 2021. This is distinct from our virtual sporting code teams managed online, and will feature true New Weddington Subjects taking part in key National events.

This has the benefit of both greater participation in sports among Subjects, and raised profile of our micronation in the macro-world.

Our first event will be the Aussie Peace Walk, a charitable event which also promotes multiculturalism. Taking place over 2 days on the weekend of 27th and 28th, with distances from 14km to full marathon, this event is officially endorsed by the International Walking Association.

According to Rotary Aussie Peace Walk events director Chris Edwards, the aim of the Walk is to be a “multicultural moving festival”.

“We have groups of people representing different cultures and nationalities all walking together,” he said.

“The Finnish embassy will be supporting a Finnish team who will all be doing Nordic walking. The last time I looked there were about 35 countries who registered for representation.”

14 participants, including Lord Watitune, will be taking part as the 'New Weddington Wanderers' Athletics team in our specially-designed kit... this will be the 30th Anniversary of the Peace Walk and also leads into the New Weddington Isles' Renewal Day 2021 Celebrations (more of these later).

Our next event will be the Canberra Running Festival on 11th April.

aussiepeacewalk.com.au/