As the sun set over Chester on Sunday evening, walkers stepped out for charity.

More than 250 completed a 10K Twilight Walk through Chester’s medieval streets to raise much needed cash for The Brain Tumour Charity.

Chester teacher Hannah Jones, 21, who got the all-clear earlier this year, five years after her last operation to remove a brain tumour at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, saw the walkers off from Chester Town Hall.

She made an impassioned plea: “Let’s remember why we’re doing this.”

The Twilight Walk in Chester on Sunday, September 28, to raise funds for The Brain Tumour Charity. Hannah Jones with Barry Pizer, consultant paediatric oncologist at Alder Hey Childrens Hospital

Hannah, who recently completed a three-year teaching degree at the University of Chester, was first diagnosed in 2008 at the age of 15 and has since raised more than £180,000 for The Brain Tumour Charity.

Also marching out in force was Erin’s Army, friends and family of six-year-old Erin Birdsey from Northwich, who had surgery to remove a brain tumour in July just 24 hours after an optician at Boots Optician in Northwich spotted a build-up of pressure behind her eyeballs – a key marker of brain tumours.

She is now with mum and dad Rachael and James, both 34, and two-year-old brother Oli in the States where she is undergoing proton beam therapy.

The highly specialised form of radiotherapy targets cancer cells more specifically, causing less damage to healthy tissue.

But Erin sent her family and friends a message of support from Jacksonville, Florida.

Mum Rachael, a play specialist at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, said: “She wanted to wish everyone good luck. We are huge supporters of The Brain Tumour Charity’s HeadSmart campaign for earlier diagnosis of children’s brain tumours.

“We were going to take part in The Chester Twilight Walk, but had to go to the States. So we organised our own walk in Marbury Country Park in Anderton and raised over £450.”

The Twilight Walk in Chester on Sunday, September 28, to raise funds for The Brain Tumour Charity. Erin Birdsey, of Northwich (now having teatment in America)

The Brain Tumour Charity’s director of fundraising Louise Taylor said: “There was a fantastic atmosphere as walkers strolled and shared their stories. It was a brilliant day.

“We depend on our fundraisers 100%. We’re so grateful for their support in helping us to raise money to beat brain tumours.”