Arnold Clark’s Graduate Software Developer Euan Cockburn, will be joining other group employees in tackling the 26 mile Kiltwalk… but Euan will be doing it in chainmail… and a Viking helmet.
Euan who is an enthusiastic member of The Glasgow Vikings, a dark ages re-enactment society, explains the thinking behind the 10kg outfit, ‘I read one of the posters and it said they would match the first £1000 and I thought I could do that. Then I thought, I bet I could raise more money if I did it in chainmail!’
Euan is walking to raise money for Who Cares? Scotland. He explained, ‘The work they do is really important for giving opportunities to people from care backgrounds. There’s an awful lot of stigma attached to it. There’s a level of expectation on them but it’s an expectation to fail; it’s an expectation to go to jail; it’s an expectation to work bad jobs. A lot of them can far exceed these expectations. Who Cares? Scotland is a great charity that facilitates the opportunities to go into higher education and apply for jobs that they might not normally be considered for.’
Euan came up with another way to spice up the fundraising campaign, ‘Whoever donates the most money will get to decide either my hair or the beard and what colour it should be or ask me to shave it. Every time I mention it, people immediately say pink. I feel like just something should be pink just to meet public demand.’
He’s not too worried about the historical accuracy of his Viking antics on this occasion, ‘They wouldn’t have walked with their chainmail on. If they were marching and weren’t expecting to fight, they wouldn’t wear it because it’s hot and makes your clothes very oily and tears away at the fabric on them. Going further back, the Romans would be expected to march 26 miles in chainmail.’
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