Monday, March 22, 2010

Cycle for Ganet's Adventure School

Be part of our big cycling adventure from London to Rochester on Sunday 23 May! We leave from Tower Bridge, pass spots along the Thames which are famous for their culture, history and wildlife, and finish in the Medway town of Rochester. The aim of this 41 mile ride is to raise £4,000 to help pay for the construction of new classrooms at Ganet's Adventure School, a village primary school in Malawi.

Our route is a mostly traffic and hill-free, and so is suitable for cyclists of most abilities, even if you're not a regular rider. It follows a section of the well-signposted National Cycle Network's National Route One.
Read more about the route

Entry

Each rider will receive an entry pack, a ride information pack on the day and a t-shirt to wear on the day and to keep as a souvenir. The ride costs £15 per person, which also covers the costs of our overheads. Any money left over will go direct to Ganet's Adventure School.

Sponsorship

We ask each rider to pledge to raise a minimum of £100 for Ganet's Adventure School Fund. Each rider can set up their own donations page on www.virginmoneygiving.com, which allows people to sponsor you online and also takes care of donations eligible for Gift Aid.

Want to find out more? See our FAQ

Interested? RSVP to the event on Facebook or email info@ganetsadventureschool.org to receive updates.

Ready to sign up now? Fill in our online entry form.

If you're not a cyclist, please forward this information to any cyclists you know, and help Ganet's Adventure School to reopen!

Update from Malawi: classroom construction has begun!

I'm happy to announce that work started on clearing the land for Ganet’s Adventure School’s first permanent classrooms in the first week of March.

Gertrude Banda, the school principal, is very excited about this, and passes on her thanks to all of our supporters. Once the land has been cleared, foundations will be laid and then the building work should be complete by July. Government school inspectors will then assess the new building for suitability and safety, and then we hope that classes can restart in September.

All of this depends on us raising around £5,000 before completion of the building work, so we need donations and all kinds of help to raise this sum. So far, we have raised around a third of the sum required, and various activities are going on over the next few months to raise the rest.
Find out more about the construction of the classrooms

More news soon!

Steve McInerny
www.ganetsadventureschool.org

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Steve volunteered as a photographer at vinspired Lake of Stars 2009 and continues to support our project at events.

For volunteer opportunities including at the big festivals this summer got to http://www.vinspired.com