On Saturday 15 October 2022, a group of ten walkers, including directors of the English College Foundation, College alumni, and friends and supporters of the Foundation undertook a fundraising walk through places in London with Czech and Czechoslovak historical and current connections. The funds will support a scholarship for a student at the English College from a disadvantaged background, one of several such scholarships that have been awarded up to now. 

Starting at the two Kindertransport memorials at Liverpool Street station, they walked via the Bank of England and St Paul’s Cathedral to Bush House, where many Czechs and Slovaks worked for the BBC Czech and Slovak services during WWII and up to 2006 when the two services closed, to King’s College, where Czechoslovakia’s first President Masaryk, a sociologist,  lectured about the problems of small nations, then to see the plaque dedicated to Czech and Slovak pilots on the memorial to the Battle of Britain on the Victoria Embankment, and the two houses on Grosvenor Place where Czechoslovak President Benes had his office during WWII and the Czechoslovak Embassy was located at that time, and then across Hyde Park to end the walk at the Czech Embassy. The walkers covered about 14km or nine miles. Those with enough strength left went for a beer and a meal afterwards at Bohemia House in West Hampstead. It has been a haunt for homesick Czechs and Slovaks since 1946! We very much hope that a large amount was raised for the scholarship, as of now donations are still coming in and can be made here.