# Meet the fundraiser – Susanna Spicer

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/05/meet-fundraiser-susanna-spicer/
- Published: 2017-02-05T11:57:17+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Legs4Africa has announced that its fundraiser of the year for 2016 is Susanna 
Spicer. The classical singer raised £3,163.25 for the amputee charity that collects
redundant prosthetic legs and sends them to trusted medical centres in Africa where
they are customised and distributed to those in need.**

She did so by walking over 300 miles along the First World War Western Front’s No
Man’s Land; a ‘Via Sacra’, a sacred road. The route was inspired by a letter from
her great uncle in 1915 to his headmaster. Shortly after sending the letter Douglas
Gillespie was killed in the Battle of Loos.
 ⌊Susanna Spicer's Legs4Africa fundraising
walk⌉ In his letter he had written:

> “I would like to send every man, woman and child in Western Europe on a pilgrimage
> along that Via Sacra, so that they might think and learn what war means from the
> silent witnesses on either side…”
> 
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Susanna’s family and others are now trying to establish a permanent walk way, [The Western Front Way](http://www.thewesternfrontway.com).
⌊
Susanna Spicer on the Western Front for Legs4Africa⌉ She recognised that, despite
the solemnity of the walk, she was lucky to walk it at all and that many people 
around the world still suffer from limb loss, as many did in the First World War,
and that she wanted to help those affected. ⌊Susanna Spicer on her Legs4Africa fundraising
walk⌉ Tom Williams, founding trustee of [Legs4Africa](http://www.legs4africa.org),
in announcing [Susanna Spicer](http://www.singersdirect.co.uk) as the charity’s 
fundraiser of the year and thanking her, said:

> “We are always blown away by the amount of support we receive. People’s generosity
> never fails to exceed our expectations. Some people give their time, some their
> hard earned money, some materials, while others give us extraordinary gifts gained
> in extraordinary ways.”

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   17 May 2022)**
 * **[Meet the fundraiser: Francesca, Oxfam street fundraiser](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/02/03/meet-the-fundraiser-francesca-oxfam-street-fundraiser/)(
   3 February 2016)
 * **[Meet the fundraiser: Kitty Gardner at Womans Trust](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/09/13/meet-fundraiser-kitty-gardner-womans-trust/)(
   13 September 2017) **