Giving something back..

As you may know, today I am flying to Italy to start Leg 6 of my crazy cycling adventure to Sydney, Australia. (This journey will take me 25 years, split out into 25 different legs – over 4 days each year). The purpose of the ride is to raise ￡2,000,000 over the 25 years to support the work of 1moreChild an orphanage in Jinga, Uganda and change the lives of hundreds of children.

1morechild take disadvantaged children off the streets and gives them everything that they need to go to school. This includes food, housing and school fees. They look after 300 children and this trip raises 70% of the amount needed each year to do their good work.

Some Ride25 riders visited the children in March 2017. You can watch 2 short films with stories of how 1morechild has help change lives...

Click here to sponsor me and the Ride25 pioneer team of cyclists – please mention Summit and John in the comments..

This year I have done the least training ever as I’ve been out selling rather than out cycling! So, it will really hurt a lot more than normal – I’m also not built like a natural cyclist!

This is the wildest ride yet with day after day of rolling hills, wolves, wild dogs and bears for company. So if the cycling doesn’t kill me the bears might!

So far we've raised ￡440,000 as part of our goal of raising ￡2,000,000 to help educate children along the journey.

We're going to have a good time, ride hard, sweat a lot, cycle many miles in the heat and have many moments of “I wish I had done more training” …. but most importantly we're raising money for 1moreChild.

The charity is VERY efficient with ALL monies raised going straight to deal with the problem so please give generously!

In addition all cyclists pay all their own costs so all the money raised goes straight to 1moreChild.

The most exciting news is that this year we have a benefactor that will DOUBLE ALL donations made for this leg. So if you give ￡1, ￡2 Plus gift aid will go to 1moreChild. Another reason to give generously.... 

 Please mention John & Summit in your comments – so we can track our contribution. We have also managed to get the Summit logo on the event shirts and we are official sponsors!

 Click here to sponsor if you can.

If you are a cyclist and fancy joining in next year – I’m sure we can arrange a place for you ;o)

 Click here to see the video of Leg 5. (last year’s trip)

Thanks a lot in advance for all your support.  A little as ￡2.50 or ￡5 (which will get doubled) will make a huge difference.

Have a good week – I’ll send you update pictures in lycra – or you can sponsor me not to!

John