By Gloucestershire Echo  |  Posted: May 06, 2015

Footwear will be swapped between friends, family and strangers next month for the biggest carers awareness event in the south west.

Gloucestershire Echo Editor, Matt Holmes (second left) with from left, Chief Executive of Carers Gloucestershire, Tim Poole, Ruth Martel, Carers Gloucestershire Communications Manager, Nick Baker and Dave Martell

Carers Gloucestershire has launched its flagship fundraising event ‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’, in conjunction with the Gloucestershire Echo and Gloucester Citizen.

At last year’s Walk a Mile event people from across the county stepped out in Cheltenham, wearing someone else’s shoes to show their support for local unpaid carers.