| | A group of management
consultants from the
award-winning programme
and project management
firm Moorhouse
Consulting has raised
over £21,000 for
charity, with a
sponsored 'Bike Run'
from Scotland to London
in just 48 hours.
The 30 staff, who
left Gretna on Friday
4th July, battled
through the
unpredictable summer
elements - including
heavy rain, high winds
and some sunshine - to
travel back to their
base in London via
Oxenholme, Huddersfield, | |
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| | Loughborough, and
Leighton Buzzard. The
effort raised funds for
Great Ormond Street
Hospital Children's
Charity (GOSHCC),
Sustainable Futures in
Africa and The
Alzheimer's Society.
Divided into three
teams of five pairs,
each pair spent roughly
nine hours in action for
one hour at a time, with
one person cycling and
the other running.
The group smashed
their previous
fundraising target of
£18K and arrived, tired
yet victorious, at Great
Ormond Street Hospital, | |
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| | London on Sunday 6th
July. Team Ndejje -
named after a town in
Uganda where some of the
funds raised will help
build a new school -
came in first at 11am.
Team captain Tom Elvidge
said they were thrilled
with their achievement.
"There was a
fantastic team spirit
out on the road, with
the three teams geeing
each other along, and we
had a lot of fun along
the way. The weather
tried its best to put us
off course but we
battled through to the
end and are thrilled to
raise this amount of | |
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| | money for three great
charities."
Managing director Dom
Moorhouse said that
after travelling from
London to Cornwall in
last year's event, the
team were determined to
raise the bar in 2008.
He added: "It was a
tough physical challenge
involving over 50
participants and a
traverse of the length
of this country. The
team did a great job
both in the meticulous
planning of the venture
and its successful
execution. The event is
now becoming somewhat of
a firm tradition and | |
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| | certainly one that
brings out the best in
our collective talents.
"Most importantly,
however, it delivered
for our chosen charities
and we are tremendously
grateful to all of our
clients, friends and
family for giving so
generously. On the
finish line, I had a
'never again' moment but
now the legs are
recovering, thoughts are
already turning to the
design of next year's
event!" | |
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