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Added: Sat 19th Apr 2008
The annual Charity Cheque Presentation Evening at Seacourt took place on Saturday, 5th April. All riders participating in last year’s £1,000,000 Ride had collected their sponsorship by this date, which is a surprising first for the bike ride, as there are usually at least a couple of very late sponsorship collectors (those on the ‘naughty list’, according to Charities Liaison committee member, Kerry West). As explained last month, 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 £104,505 (including Gift Aid) recorded as having been raised from Ride 2007, £63,863 was sent direct, which is over 60%, more than double the proportion of a few years back.
There was a good audience of the mainly local beneficiaries of donations on the night, with over £12,000 being handed out and more than 50 in attendance, plus riders and support crew. There was a very popular showing of Councillor David Collins’s video version of last year’s ride, with lots of sympathy from the attendees for how we had to cope with all the rain, bringing back soggy memories for us riders! After the presentations, there was a light buffet and the chance for the charities to ‘network’, as well as meet riders and support.
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 the ‘£1,000,000 Ride’:
Age Concern (Hayling Island) - £500; Alzheimer’s Society - £150; Batten Disease Family Association - £825; BBC Children in Need Appeal - £160; BBOWT - £760; Breakthrough Breast Cancer - £526; Breast Cancer Campaign - £275; British Heart Foundation - £350; British Lung Foundation - £505; Cancer Research UK - £7,000; Canine Partners for Independence - £1,350; Cedar - £400; Chapel Lane Preschool - £2,539; Charlene Alloway - £250; Chasecare - £975; Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice - £160; CLIC Sargent - £1,425; Cookworthy Museum of Rural Life - £300; Cruse Bereavement Care - £265; Cystic Fibrosis Trust - £610; Derek Biggs - £100; Diabetes UK - £4,345; Elizabeth Foundation - £3,450; Emsworth Stroke Club - £148; Everyman - £470; Friends of Hayling Trees - £100; Friends of Radiotherapy (FORT) - £100; Friends of St Mary's Church - £830; Friends of the Animals - £370; Gaucher Association - £505; Grace & Hope Foundation - £410; Hannah's Holiday Home Appeal - £400; Haste - £400; Hayling College - £250; Hayling Guides - £250; Hayling Health Centre - £100; Hayling Island Community Centre - £100; Hayling Island Cricket Club - £2,500; Hayling Island First Responders Scheme - £100; Hayling MTI - £250; Hayling Police Helmet Cam - £632; Hayling Red Cross - £100; Hayling Scouts - £250; Head & Neck Cancer - £4,000; Heartbeat - £1,082; Hi Y Café - £400; HUFC - £750; HUFC Ladies - £100; In Ministry to Children - £200; Isle of Wight Hospice - £150; Joint Action - £2,755; Langstone Sailability - £750; Leukaemia Research - £1,545; Macmillan Cancer Support - £1270; Mencap - £275; Mengham Infant School - £250; Mengham Junior School - £250; Mill Rythe Infant School - £250; Mill Rythe Junior School - £250; MNDA (Reading) - £268; MNDA (S.E. Hants) - £910; MNDA (Hants, Dorset IoW &CI) - £250; Mothers Union (HI) - £300; MS Bristol - £1,000; MS Society - £4,070; Naomi House - £4,641; National Autistic Society - £1,590; Noah’s Ark Trust - £310; Operation Smile UK - £3,700; Orbis - £400; PALS - £395; Piam Brown Children’s Cancer Ward - £455; Portsmouth & Victoria Swimming Club - £300; Portsmouth Carers Association - £25; Portsmouth High School – Juniors - £250; Portsmouth Hospitals Rocky Appeal - £100; Rachel Maddocks School - £650; Rezurgence - £6,735; RNIB - £443; RNLI - £970; S.I.D. - £100; Salisbury Hospice Care Trust - £705; Samantha Dickson Research Trust - £600; SANE - £500; Save the Children - £100; Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary - £579; St Andrews PCC (Ghana Appeal) - £650; St Mary's Maternity Unit - £750; St Wilfrid’s Hospice - £1,546; Start (leprosy) - £100; Stroke Association - £1,495; Sue Ryder - £100; Sussex Snowdrop Trust - £405; Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust - £881; The Lady Taverners - £1,256; The Rainbow Centre - £1,712; The Ridgeway Primary School PTA - £1,355; The Rowans (Portsmouth Hospice) - £3,075; Topaz Twirlstars - £100; Volunteer Centre West Berkshire - £715; Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance - £175; Wessex Cancer Trust - £900; Wessex Wight Appeal - £875; Winston's Wish - £70; Woodland Trust - £180; WSPA - £450; Yorkshire Animal Shelter - £246.
New website
The website for The Paris to Hayling Charity Cycle has had a total new ‘facelift’, with the design being created by Hayling Island web designers, Brit-net, publishers of the www.hayling.co.uk website. Please visit www.hayling-cycle-ride.org.uk to see the results (even if you weren’t familiar with the old one!).
Channel to Channel Ride
The 9th Channel To Channel will take place on the week-end of the 17th and 18th May. This year we will again be starting from Weston-Super-Mare as we did in 2000 to 2005, this time with a change of rout 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.
Details for Ride 2008
We have been overwhelmed by the level of interest in the year’s 23rd event – ‘Le Tours de Tours’. We have had over 230 application for entry and are operating waiting lists on both the shorter 3½-Day and the longer 6-Day Ride. We had originally planned to take 180 riders, but we should be able to accommodate more in the hotels we have booked, should the normal anticipated level of cancellations not occur. Dates are 13th and 15th July, returning on Sunday 20th July, for a Welcome Back reception at Hayling College, courtesy of HUFC. Riders are expected to raise at least £150, for the charity of their choice.
Phone enquiries to 023 9246 1412 or by post to Paris to Hayling, PO Box 30, Hayling Island, Hants, PO11 9UD. Mobile – 07770-888501.
Website - http://www.hayling-cycle-ride.org.uk
e-mail address – paul.fisher69@ntlworld.com
PAUL FISHER 19/04/2008
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