With just weeks left to sign up to Walk the Wight 2025, Mountbatten Isle of Wight wants your help to create a garden of sunflowers, to celebrate the iconic event’s 35 anniversary, on Sunday, 11 May.

Draw, paint, knit, crochet, colour in, mould, sculpt or even build a sunflower — the enduring image of your local hospice charity.

Walk the Wight started in 1991, when Islanders Bill Bradley and Frank Stevens organised a team-building walk for 25 colleagues from H.W. Moreys, a local timber and builders’ merchant.

By its second year, the walk had attracted 120 participants, raising funds for both an MRI scanner for the hospital and Earl Mountbatten Hospice (now Mountbatten Isle of Wight).

CLICK HERE to read more about Walk the Wight's history

35 years on, Mountbatten Isle of Wight’s event is about making memories and having fun, as well as taking on an incredible challenge while raising vital funds for your local hospice charity.

Mountbatten Isle of Wight delivers expert 24/7 care in homes across the Isle of Wight and on our inpatient unit in Newport.

Around ten thousand people take in Walk the Wight, making it one of the biggest events of its kind.

Sunflower Garden

For 2025, celebrate this incredible achievement by using your creative skills to help us create a garden of sunflowers.

The finished creations will form part of an exhibition about the amazing things Walk the Wight has achieved over the years.

Get crafting today (we don’t mind what you do, as long as it’s a sunflower) and then drop your sunflower to: Mountbatten Isle of Wight in Halberry Lane, Newport.

We will reveal more details soon about where and when they will be displayed.

Registration costs £15 per person. Your walker pack (including your number) will be waiting for you at your chosen start line.

Whether it’s the Flat Walk, Main Walk, Schools Walk or the half-route, help make the 35^th anniversary of Walk the Wight one to remember, in support of end-of-life care, 24/7 for the Islanders who need it most!