Walk for Freedom 2026: 10 Years & Still Walking
Brighton Pier, 15–16 August 2026
Getting the ZHRO family to Brighton for the 10-year anniversary was, in itself, its own small odyssey. Participants converged from across the country — Leicester, Manchester, Stockton-on-Tees, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Oxfordshire, Chesterfield, Worthing, and beyond — a reminder of just how far the Walk for Freedom's reach has grown over a decade.
The logistics were compounded by a very practical challenge: distributing the full run of ZHRO 10 Year Walk for Freedom T-shirts, which had arrived by FedEx the previous Monday (10 August) — 23kg of them. A spreadsheet was set up to track sales (£15 per shirt) alongside separate contributions toward food and other costs (£25 each), so we could keep an accurate record of who'd paid, who still owed, and what had been banked.
The plan had been simple enough on paper: gather at Brighton Pier for 5:00am on Saturday 15th, setting off at 5:30am sharp. Reality, as ever, had other ideas.
- Transport and accommodation hiccups meant several participants had a harder time than expected just getting to the start line.
- The T-shirts themselves were delayed — Sarah and Rashi, both doing heavy NHS shift work, overslept after a run of night shifts that had completely upended their normal sleep patterns. Entirely forgivable, if inconveniently timed — the shirts didn't arrive until around 6:30am.
- A surprise guest arrived just before the shirts did: Mr Stanford Biti, a senior officer within the Constitution Defenders Forum (CDF) and younger brother of Tendai Biti, CDF's founder. He'd called only two days earlier, on the Thursday, to ask if he could join — not a request anyone was going to turn down.
Special mention also goes to those who went the extra mile, literally:
- Blessing Tariro Makeyi, UK Chair of CDF and a ZHRO member in his own right, who made additional donations toward the Walk on top of his usual support.
- Patson Muzuwa, who drove all the way from Durham — detouring to collect three additional passengers along the way — an eight-hour journey before the walk had even begun.
All this before a single step of the walk itself had been taken.
