The organisation was started in 1991 when a group of friends ans work colleagues from Itex decided to walk around the Island for fun and try to raise money for charity. They had so much fun that they repeated it and 2021 will be both the 30th anniversary and 30th Walk as the 2020 one was cancelled due to Covid-19.

Each year the trustees choose 3 main charities and an average about 6 more known as Potters who receive lesser amounts than the mains. The distribution is for projects and the mains are normally 1 each of elderly/health, Children/sport and environment/animals. Since inception over £2,4m has been raised withe appropriately 23,000 walkers and over 100 local charities benefiting. All the money raised is redistributed to the designated charities with the costs being funded by the sponsors, currently TMF Group