Our first two charity rides were a huge success - raising over £20,000 for the South East Cancer Help Centre.
The Centre does a fantastic job of supporting patients and carers at the most difficult times of their lives. They make a real difference and you could help them in their work by contributing to our fundraising. Donations can be made via JustGiving.comhttps://www.justgiving.com/Tom-Vaz/ or directly into the Centre. For more details of the Centre and their work see their website at http://www.sechc.org.uk/
After 3 years of rest it seemed time to dust off the old muscles, bones and sinews and do one more spectacular ride in aid of this fabulous charity.
This time I will travel alone for 25 days, mainly following the ancient pilgrimage route to Rome, the Via Francigene, covering a distance of around 1,400 miles.
The route travels through Newhaven - Dieppe - Paris before I eventually reach the Via Francigene in Eastern France. From then on it is pretty simple apart from having to cross the Alps without an elephant!
We did our last minute collection of sponsors from church today. Due to our generous parish we raised £703 in cash with a further £565 pledged. I did not think that we would reach our £4000 target but with gift aid we will now reach over £5000 and there are still donations coming in.
Thank you so much for your fantastic response and we will try very hard to live up to your expectations.
Just our final packing tomorrow before the off. Oh I can feel those butterflies of excitment already.
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