{"id":371751,"date":"2025-08-25T07:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371751\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:21:22","slug":"charity-fundraiser-walking-full-length-of-london-tube-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371751\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity fundraiser walking full length of London Tube lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Janiv Patel\u00a0has already completed 10 of the 11 London Underground lines on foot, raising more than \u00a318,000 so far for the British Heart Foundation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He hopes to reach his \u00a320,000 target with his final walk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Smiles at Stratford Station as walkers mark progress on the Tube challenge\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Smiles at Stratford Station as walkers mark progress on the Tube challenge (Image: justgiving.com\/janivpatel) Mr Patel said: &#8220;Any donations to this worthy cause are hugely appreciated.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The challenge began in 2016 when he walked the length of the Central Line, covering 49 stations in 23 hours and 49 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since then, he has completed a different line each year, including the Circle, Jubilee, Northern, and District lines, as well as a combined walk of the Bakerloo, Victoria, and Hammersmith &amp; City lines in 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Each walk is completed in one continuous journey without sleep.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The walks are dedicated to his aunt and grandmother, who both died from heart failure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His final challenge will take place on August 30, when he will walk the full length of the Piccadilly line, visiting all 53 stations over an estimated 32 hours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Supporters join at Canning Town Station during London Underground charity walk\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Supporters join at Canning Town Station during London Underground charity walk (Image: justgiving.com\/janivpatel)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Patel said: &#8220;Thank you for visiting my JustGiving page where you&#8217;ll read about my Walk the Lines challenge to walk the length of the 11 London Underground lines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This has been arranged to raise money for the British Heart Foundation in memory of my aunt and grandmother.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Piccadilly line walk will start at South Ealing, include all three Heathrow stations, travel out to Uxbridge, and finish at Cockfosters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Supporters can follow his progress via a live GPS tracker on the day of the walk, and can donate to the cause on his JustGiving page at www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/janivpatel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While Mr Patel will complete the entire route solo, friends and family plan to join him for sections of the walk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has chronicled each challenge with photos at every station along the way, sharing updates on his Instagram page @janiv_patel and Facebook (Janiv Patel).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The British Heart Foundation has recognised his fundraising efforts each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janiv Patel\u00a0has already completed 10 of the 11 London Underground lines on foot, raising more than \u00a318,000 so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-371751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115088201097032654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}