Since becoming involved in the bike rally in 2010 my "social conscience" has gone into overdrive and after returning from Canada/Singapore in March last year I have taken on two major commitments bringing my "good cause" quota up to three.
No 1. First and foremost the bike rally, in the last 2 years I have raised almost $15,000 and this year I need to raise $10,000 to enable myself, my 2 sons and my eldest son's boyfriend to be able to ride. Big challenge on raising the sponsorship as well as the personal costs of flights etc (approx. £3000 which come out of my pocket NOT any sponsorship). Bigger still is get the training kilometers in - I need to do about 1000km.
No 2. I was asked to be a trustee of the Aids Memorial Campaign. This is charity whose aim is to get and AIDS memorial in London. We met for the first time before Christmas and after much had wringing and debate it was decided that the memorial should be a national memorial in London. We have revamped the logos, mission statement and regrouped ready for a big launch of the competition to find the design.
No 3. I was approached to be on the board of London LGBT Community Pride who submitted a bid for the GLA funding for London Pride for the next 5 years. As was announced just last week, we won, so now have the challenge of delivering a Pride Event in 2013 under the very tight timescales caused by the selection process. 2013 will the beginning of a journey to raise London Pride to a world class event over the next 5 years.
No 1. First and foremost the bike rally, in the last 2 years I have raised almost $15,000 and this year I need to raise $10,000 to enable myself, my 2 sons and my eldest son's boyfriend to be able to ride. Big challenge on raising the sponsorship as well as the personal costs of flights etc (approx. £3000 which come out of my pocket NOT any sponsorship). Bigger still is get the training kilometers in - I need to do about 1000km.
No 2. I was asked to be a trustee of the Aids Memorial Campaign. This is charity whose aim is to get and AIDS memorial in London. We met for the first time before Christmas and after much had wringing and debate it was decided that the memorial should be a national memorial in London. We have revamped the logos, mission statement and regrouped ready for a big launch of the competition to find the design.
No 3. I was approached to be on the board of London LGBT Community Pride who submitted a bid for the GLA funding for London Pride for the next 5 years. As was announced just last week, we won, so now have the challenge of delivering a Pride Event in 2013 under the very tight timescales caused by the selection process. 2013 will the beginning of a journey to raise London Pride to a world class event over the next 5 years.
Pride to be delivered by June 29th,
Aids Memorial Campaign to be launched at Pride
$10,000 sponsorship to be raised
1000km in training rides
600km Friends For Life Bike Rally ride in July
I think this is going to be be a busy 6 months.
TTFN David, Adam, Richard & David
TTFN David, Adam, Richard & David
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