The Big Bike Ride!
Our fundraising charity bike ride took place on saturday 7th November, and thanks to all the efforts of the brave pedal-pushers who turned out to support us, the day was a great success!
It was a rather unique challenge, and a bike ride the likes of which nobody had experienced before!
The aim was to raise money for people in one of the most impoverished and often overlooked areas of Western Africa. The particular project which will benefit
from this bike ride is a water purification facility and installation of a pipe of almost 6 kilometres in a small town called Ndiaoudoune to provide people
with clean drinking water. Something which we all take for granted every day.
We had five teams of 16 willing volunteers, taking it in turns to take the bike on a two mile circuit around Beddington Park, starting and finishing at the Dukes Head Hotel in Wallington.
We raised in excess of £6000 on the day, and would like to thanks all riders and sponsors who joined in the event. We will be organising another ride in 2010, details to be posted soon!
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