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Dear all,
In the 3rd charity motorcycle ride on a continuing theme of "the longest day", on Saturday 19th June along with 80 members of thexrv.org.uk motorcycle club I will attempt to "run for the sun" from the easternmost to westernmost points of the British Isles. We are doing this to raise money for our chosen charity – this year it is Help for Heroes. I have sent this email to as many colleagues and associates that I have worked with recently in the hope that you will support us in endeavours.
Help for Heroes provides practical direct support to those servicemen and women wounded in the line of duty in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our target is £25,000; please help me achieve our target by contributing whatever you can. You can do that via the Longest Day’sjust giving website or direct to me. You will see, at the time of writing, we have raised £5,000 so your contributions will be a great help in achieving this target. Please don’t forget to add gift in aid when you contribute and as an additional bonus I am offering a pillion ride on my bike for the first 5 people who sponsor me via the just giving website….. to claim this please quote "Austin, I claim that pillion" as part of your message of support. Ride to be taken at a mutually agreed time and date – and subject to no one making a fuss over insurance and any thing else that gets in the way of these well meant things.
The motorcycle ride will start at sunrise on the 19th June at Ness Point, Lowestoft, and finish, via Holyhead and Dublin, at Garraun Point, Dingle in Eire before sunset. We do not plan to use motorways during the journey to add an additional challenge. Total road mileage will be around 650miles, with nearly 4 hours on the ferry for those of us who have to get the slow boat to Ireland.
This is the third running of the Longest Day, the past 2 have been incredibly successful – the club raised £15,000 in 2008 for Macmillan Cancer Research riding from John O’Groats to Lands End within 24 hours; and last year we raised £25,000 by "riding 5 Capitals" – Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff, and London, again all within 24 hours.
More information about the trip and who’s doing it is on theLongest Day websiteand for those with access we also have a short promo video on Youtube:link to youtube video. Please watch the video – it is stirring stuff.
This year we have also secured some corporate sponsorship – Legal and General Insurance, P&OIrish Ferries, Stena Line, Hoistit, CPA, Harsco, Alimakhek, and a couple of Cafes en-route who will provide much needed breaks and refreshments. If you or your organisation wish to contribute in this way please either let me know or contact the organisers through the Longest Day website.
Thanks in anticipation
Regards
Austin Winckler
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Dear all,
In the 3rd charity motorcycle ride on a continuing theme of "the longest day", on Saturday 19th June along with 80 members of thexrv.org.uk motorcycle club I will attempt to "run for the sun" from the easternmost to westernmost points of the British Isles. We are doing this to raise money for our chosen charity – this year it is Help for Heroes. I have sent this email to as many colleagues and associates that I have worked with recently in the hope that you will support us in endeavours.
Help for Heroes provides practical direct support to those servicemen and women wounded in the line of duty in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our target is £25,000; please help me achieve our target by contributing whatever you can. You can do that via the Longest Day’sjust giving website or direct to me. You will see, at the time of writing, we have raised £5,000 so your contributions will be a great help in achieving this target. Please don’t forget to add gift in aid when you contribute and as an additional bonus I am offering a pillion ride on my bike for the first 5 people who sponsor me via the just giving website….. to claim this please quote "Austin, I claim that pillion" as part of your message of support. Ride to be taken at a mutually agreed time and date – and subject to no one making a fuss over insurance and any thing else that gets in the way of these well meant things.
The motorcycle ride will start at sunrise on the 19th June at Ness Point, Lowestoft, and finish, via Holyhead and Dublin, at Garraun Point, Dingle in Eire before sunset. We do not plan to use motorways during the journey to add an additional challenge. Total road mileage will be around 650miles, with nearly 4 hours on the ferry for those of us who have to get the slow boat to Ireland.
This is the third running of the Longest Day, the past 2 have been incredibly successful – the club raised £15,000 in 2008 for Macmillan Cancer Research riding from John O’Groats to Lands End within 24 hours; and last year we raised £25,000 by "riding 5 Capitals" – Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff, and London, again all within 24 hours.
More information about the trip and who’s doing it is on theLongest Day websiteand for those with access we also have a short promo video on Youtube:link to youtube video. Please watch the video – it is stirring stuff.
This year we have also secured some corporate sponsorship – Legal and General Insurance, P&OIrish Ferries, Stena Line, Hoistit, CPA, Harsco, Alimakhek, and a couple of Cafes en-route who will provide much needed breaks and refreshments. If you or your organisation wish to contribute in this way please either let me know or contact the organisers through the Longest Day website.
Thanks in anticipation
Regards
Austin Winckler
