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Cycle team support special school’s fundraising efforts

Cycle team support special school’s fundraising efforts

Cycle team support special school’s fundraising efforts

30 January 2015

 Charity cyclists from a Lincolnshire estate agency have helped to boost the fundraising efforts of a special school in Lincoln.

Brothers Tim and Will Downing, from the award winning estate agency Pygott and Crone, have presented £1,000 to St Christopher’s School which caters for children with special educational needs.

The donation is part of a major fundraising push by a team of riders who cycled through the Austrian Alps from Trieste in Italy to Munich in southern Germany in September last year.

The donation will help support the “little extras” for the young pupils which the day to day running of the school can’t cover.  These include outings and visits, which the pupils at St Christopher’s would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience.

St. Christopher's School is a special school for pupils with moderate severe, profound multiple learning difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders. The school is located on a split site and has pupils ranging from two up to 19 years.

Tim and Will are part of the fundraising team who between them have topped £50,000 in last year’s charity bike ride and raised more than £330,000 since the annual ride was first started in 2007.

The annual cycle challenge was founded by the South Yorkshire based retail property company Dransfield Properties Ltd – the company behind the award winning Marshall’s Yard development in Gainsborough.

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 team of riders through the Dransfield Foundation.

Will said: “We are so pleased to be able to support St Christopher’s School here in Lincoln through the charity bike ride and the Dransfield Foundation.

“We know how much this means to the children and staff at St Christopher’s who rely on fundraising and donations to be able to have outings and experiences that otherwise would been impossible to fund.”

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 this year’s challenge will start in September.

To see pictures from the charity cycle ride, visit www.dransfield.co.uk or the Team Dransfield Facebook page.

Pictured left to right are Will Downing with parent Debbie Gutsell and governor Nigel Shier from St Christophers.

For further information, contact:

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