I'm really excited that I have been selected to go on the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Gdansk, Poland. It is a huge camp that takes place every 4 years with about 40,000 Scouts from over 150 countries. I will be part of the Central Yorkshire Unit with 35 others. We all need to fundraise not only for our own place at the camp but to help Scouts from developing countries attend the Jamboree. In the (hopefully unlikely) even that I was not able to attend the Jamboree myself for any reason, the money raised will still go to Central Yorkshire County Scouts to fund young people attending international scouting events.

I have decided to run every street in Weetwood Ward where I live. The Ward is very large and covers parts of Headingley, West Park, Lawnswood, Ireland Wood and Tinshill as well as Weetwood. I don't know how long it will take me but I have decided to run 3 times a week starting today, 11/11/25, and will update this page with my progress as I go along. I don't usually run at all which makes this an even bigger challenge!

I would really appreciate it if you could donate to my fundraising, thank you very much! The money goes to my Scout Group, 19th North Leeds (St Chad's) who then pass it on to the Jamboree Unit.

Louis Gallon

UPDATE - RUN 1 - 11/11/25

Today I ran 2.6 miles, covering all the streets in my estate, see photo with the pink lines.

UPDATE 20/11/25

Runs: 4

Distance: 8.6 miles

Streets: 36/303

Exciting news: T-shirts for the challenge for me and my Mum are arriving soon!

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far

UPDATE 30/11/25

Runs: 7

Distance: 13.7 miles

Streets: 46/303

Our t-shirts should be arriving any day now...

UPDATE 03/12/25

Runs: 9

Distance: 19.5 miles

Streets: 60/306+ (final total still being calculated thanks to discovering some estates that are in the ward being absent from our list!)

T-shirts have landed! Thank you so much to the very kind folk at PECO in Farsley for these, we love them!

UPDATE 12/01/26

Runs: 18

Distance: 37.2 miles

Streets: 145/323

Almost half way through the challenge now! The latest count of streets including those missed from the original list is now 323. It was hard running on the ice and the dark cold evenings are not that much fun but I am still getting them done. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far.