FUNDRAISER extraordinaire Pip Bowhay is at it again.

Pip, from Dawlish, is lacing up her walking boots once more for her latest walk, this time in aid of the RNLI.

The partially-sighted Army veteran is no stranger to fund-raising or long distance walking.

Her previous ‘Pip’s Plod’ exploits include walking 479 miles from St Jean Pied de Port in the French Pyrenees, on The Camino Frances, to Santiago de Compostela, for Pancreatic Cancer Research, in memory of her husband.

In 2018, she walked from Dunnet Head, north of John O Groats, to Land’s End, a distance of 1032 miles, over three and a half months, for Hospiscare Exeter.

Next month, she sets off from Lisbon in Portugal for a revisit to Santiago, a distance of almost 500 miles.

She said: ‘I’ve been trying to train in challenging weather so I will be walk-fit to do 15 miles a day.

‘We are fortunate enough to be serviced by both the Teignmouth and Exmouth lifeboat crews, who are always stretched at this holidaymakers destination.

‘I swim as often as I can and think I know how to keep safe but things can change in a second in the sea and I will never know when I might need to be rescued.

‘The RNLI saves hundreds of people a year and are an invaluable service.’

Pip is hoping to raise £3,000.

Her fund-raising exploits are not confined to walking. She shaved off her hair in 2016, organised abseils down a church tower and compiled a cookbook, raising more than £10,000.

Now in her late 60s, she lost half her sight as the result of a stroke in 2007.

Her husband Richard died at the hospice in Exeter in 2011.

For anyone who wants to donate in person, Pip will be at the Hub Store on the Strand in Dawlish on Monday afternoons and Thursday mornings when she will be on her volunteer shifts.

Alternatively, please visit http://www.justgiving.com/page/pip-bowhays2025plod to donate.