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Pedal power helps support local children’s charity

Pedal power helps support local children’s charity

Pedal power helps support local children’s charity

7 November 2014


Cycling brothers Tim and Will Downing have given Lincolnshire Flight’s For Life charity a welcome boost.

Their £1,000 donation is part of a major fundraising push by a team of riders who this year cycled from Trieste to Munich.

Tim and Will, from the award winning estate agency Pygott and Crone in Lincoln, are part of the fundraising team who between them have topped £50,000 this year and raised more than £330,000 since the annual ride first started in 2007.

As well as supporting Action Against Cancer and Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research a third of the funds raised every year is donated to smaller causes nominated by the 19 strong team of riders through the Dransfield Foundation.

Flights for Life, based at Wickenby Airfield in Lincolnshire, gives children and young adults suffering from life limiting illnesses the opportunity to experience the magic of flight.

Tim Downing said: “It’s fantastic to be able to support Flights for Life here in our home county, the work the charity does is absolutely amazing.  The charity relies on donations to be able to give the gift of flights to so many young people who otherwise would not be able to enjoy this wonderful experience.”

“The cycle ride is a really tough challenge every year but raising as much as we can for the charities we’re supporting definitely keeps us going,” added Will.

The annual Tour of Europe ride is organised by Barnsley based Dransfield Properties and was started in 2007.

This year’s riders set off on September 15th from Trieste in Italy. The cyclists took a challenging route through the Austrian Alps arriving in Munich in southern Germany on the afternoon of Friday September 19th after a final day’s ride covering more than 70 leg aching miles.

The Tour of Europe was first started in 2007 when a team cycled from London to Paris, since then they’ve covered a leg of their journey every year with the aim of getting back to London by 2020.

In the last seven years the riders have covered more than 2,600 miles through five different countries – they’ve stopped off at Lyon, Marseilles, Portofino, Rome, Dubrovnik, Trieste and this year’s finishing point Munich – where next year’s challenge will start.
To see pictures from the charity cycle ride, visit www.dransfield.co.uk or the Team Dransfield Facebook page.

Picture shows Will and Tim Downing (right) with the team from Flights for Life. 


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For further information, contact:

Public Relations Department, Dransfield Properties Ltd
Tel: 01226 360644
Email: pr@dransfield.co.uk