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Added: Wed 22nd Apr 2009
The annual Charity Cheque Presentation Evening took place in the rather more intimate surroundings of the Newtown’s new function suite on Friday, 3rd April, rather than at Seacourt, the location for the last several years. Nearly all of the 200 riders participating in last year’s ‘Tour de Tours’ Ride had collected their sponsorship by this date, with only one remaining on the ‘naughty list’, according to Charities Liaison committee member, Kerry West. The trend is now for riders to send their sponsorship directly to their favoured charity, often via the ‘Justgiving’ fundraising website, rather than via the Bike Ride’s charitable arm, known as ACE (Association for Charitable Endeavours). In fact, of the £94,068 (including Gift Aid) recorded as having been raised from Ride 2008, £64,575 was sent direct, which is more than double the proportion of a few years back. This means that the total raised through the event over the 23 years of the Paris to Hayling now exceeds £1,100,000! 15 riders raised more than £1,000, with Vodafone’s Team raising over £15,000 and Team Ditcham Park over £12,000. Barrie Dawson was once again Top Fundraiser with £4,000, earning the Paul Fisher Scroll of Honour Award, for the third time.
There was a good audience of the mainly local beneficiaries of donations on the night, with over £13,500 being handed out and more than 50 in attendance, including riders and support crew. There was also a very popular showing of this year’s ride video and photos, with contributions from Roger Key and Dave Hersee. After the presentations, there was a light buffet and the chance for the charities to ‘network’, as well as meet riders and support.
FUNDRAISING FROM RIDE 2008
Over 100 charities and deserving causes were nominated by riders and the organising committee and the following is a full list of beneficiaries and the amounts they have received from ‘Le Tour de Tours’ Ride 2008:
Age Concern (Hayling Island) - £500; Aiming High (Hayling College) - £150; Alzheimer's Society - £140; Anthony Nolan Trust - £2,703; Breakthrough Breast Cancer - £620; Breast Cancer Campaign - £350; Brent Lodge Wildlife Trust - £110; British Lung Foundation - £300; Cancer Research UK - £7,524; Canine Partners - £313; Chasecare - £3,165; Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice - £425; Children in Need - £150; Christian Aid - £170; CLIC Sargent - £770; Cystic Fibrosis Trust - £941; Derek Biggs - £100; Diabetes UK - £200; Ditcham Park Sports Hall - £250; Elizabeth Foundation - £2,950; Epilepsy Association - £638; Everyman - £466; Evolution Twirlers - £100; Friends of Hayling Trees - £100; Friends of Radiotherapy (FORT) - £100; Friends of St Mary's Church - £100; Gaucher Association - £600; Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service - £150; Great Ormond Street Hospital - £478; Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance - £700; Hampshire Autistic Society - £428; Hannah's Holiday Home Appeal - £400; Hayling College - £250; Hayling Football Club Juniors - £300; Hayling Guides - £250; Hayling Health Centre - £100; Hayling Island Community Centre - £100; Hayling Island First Responders Scheme - £400; Hayling Ladies Bowls Club - £100; Hayling Lions - £50; Hayling Red Cross - £642; Hayling Scouts - £250; Head & Neck Cancer - £4,000; Helens House Hospice - £150; Helicopter Rescue – Daedelus, Gosport - £300; Help for Heroes - £2,700; Help the Hospices - £60; Hi Y Café - £100; Himalayan School - £300; Homestart - £300; Hope House North Wales - £546; HUFC - £100; Isle of Wight Hospice - £150; Jessies Fund - £250; Junior Diabetic Research - £452; Langstone Sailability - £350; Leukaemia Research - £445; Lymphoma Association - £250; Macmillan Cancer Support - £3,729; Make a Wish Foundation - £200; Marie Curie Cancer Care - £211; Medecins sans Frontieres - £ 450; Mengham Infant School - £250; Mengham Junior School - £250; Mill Rythe Infant School - £250; Mill Rythe Junior School - £250; MNDA (Jacqui Roberts Tribute Trust) - £570; MNDA (Reading) - £500; MNDA(Hants, Dorset IOW & CI) - £565; MS Society - £2,567; Myeloma UK - £250; Naomi House - £3,405; National Autistic Society - £800; NSPCC - £488; Oxfam - £90; Piam Brown Children’s Cancer Ward - £1,455; Portsmouth Hospitals Rocky Appeal - £100; Pueblo a Pueblo - £300; Rachel Maddocks School - £375; Reach - £250; REACT - £300; RNLI - £4,359; Rotary Club - £450 - Round Table Children’s Wishes - £1,415; RSPB - £50; S.I.D. - £100; Save the Children - £1,043; Shalbourne School PTFA - £250; Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary - £100; South Area Music Centre - £700; Spinal Research - £640; St Andrews PCC (Ghana Appeal) - £500; St Mary's Maternity Unit - £550; Student Partnerships Worldwide - £240; Sussex Snowdrop Trust - £317; Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust - £1,311; Thames Valley Hospice - £650; The Aplastic Anaemia Trust - £1,520; The Petersfield Open Air Pool - £550; The Rainbow Centre - £2,869; The Rosemary Foundation - £688; The Rowans (Portsmouth Hospice) - £4,326; The Stroke Association - £1,146; Theatre Royal - £200; Vision Aid International - £255; Volunteer Centre West Berkshire - £750; Wateraid - £414; Wessex Cancer Trust - £200; West Berkshire Rapid Response Car - £740; Win - £100; Winston's Wish - £2,000; Wotato Trust - £102; WSPA - £150; Yummy Mummy (CLIC Sargent) - £100.
CHANNEL TO CHANNEL RIDE
The 10th Channel To Channel will take place on the week-end of the 16th and 17th May. We will again be starting from Weston-Super-Mare, with our new route through the Somerset Levels. As usual we will overnight in Salisbury before returning to Hayling. This event offers a great opportunity for some practice before our big event in July or can be enjoyed as an alternative ride for those unable to join us in France. Anyone interested in entering should contact Paris to Hayling President Pete McQuade on 07825 363 076 (mcquadep@aol.com), as there may still be places available.
ENTRIES FOR 2009
Due to the high demand for participation in the ride these days, we designed the new entry form early and made it available as a download from our website. However, we only have just under 150 entries, well below last year’s numbers at this time and so there are still places on both the longer and shorter rides – are we also suffering from the ‘credit crunch’?. If you want to be with us, please get your entry form in.
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