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Participant list Jane Alford Brian Bianchi Maggie Calvey Aurea Carpenter Evelyn Chadwick Alexandra Chaldecott Andrew Charlwood Andrew Date Malcolm Donald Dick Draper Peter Garland William Hughes Nicholas Hynes Peter Magee Kate Nash Peter Oldham Michael Pitt |
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14 - 18 July 2010
Cycle 312km from the picturesque resort of Le Touquet through the beautiful Somme Valley amongst major WW1 battlefields and monuments to finish at the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres, in aid of humanitarian landmine clearance charity MAG.
- Download the event brochure and registration forms
- Request an information pack online
- Request an information pack by email - please include your name, address and where you saw the challenge advertised.
To take part in this fantastic challenge you will need to pay a registration fee of £175 and to raise at least £1,600 in sponsorship, over half of which will support MAG's mine clearance programmes.
How to raise your sponsorship
£1,600 is a lot of money to raise and we appreciate how daunting it may seem. Raising the sponsorship is part of the challenge and it can be difficult, however it is totally achievable and once you set your mind to it you will reach that target! We are here to help you every step of the way providing fundraising advice and materials.
Once we have received your completed registration forms we will send you a fundraising pack to get you started and you can get in touch any time to run through ideas or discuss your plans. Download our Top Ten Fundraising Tips.
How to register
- Register online or follow the steps below
1. Complete the registration forms
2. Return forms to MAG with the £175 registration fee (note, the registration fee is non-refundable and is not included in the £1,600 sponsorship target).
If you have any questions about the event or how to raise the sponsorship please email me lesley.achim@maginternational.org or call me on 0161 238 5447, I am here to help in any way I can.
Numbers are limited so register today to secure your place on this unforgettable challenge.
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What past participants have said about MAG cycling challenges:
"The camaraderie and team spirit from cyclists and support crew was amazing, and the personal satisfaction and sense of acheivement was something I had never experienced before. Despite occasional hitting the pain barrier I smiled every single day. It was a highpoint in my life - and it benefited a worthwhile cause." Lee Patterson
"I wanted to set myself a funky challenge. Something that would get me overseas, with a bunch of folk I had never met before. Something that would stretch me physically and mentally and maybe benefit someone else if I could do it for charity. When I saw the details from MAG, I jumped at the chance and it exceeded in every way I could of hoped. Highly recommended!" Max MacGillivray
Why support MAG?
The problems
Imagine if, somewhere outside your front door, there is a powerful explosive weapon waiting patiently for you, or a member of your family, to disturb it. Because it’s hidden from view, avoiding it is a constant game of chance.
There could be one of them. There could be 100. You don’t know how many there are and neither does anyone else.
Every day millions of people live with this fear. And every day dozens of people die or suffer horrific injuries from abandoned weapons left behind after conflict.
Landmines, grenades, missiles and cluster bombs do not discriminate between soldiers and civilians, between adults and children.
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Deadly weapon: a barely visible landmine in Cambodia. |
Did you know...?
- More than 70 states are believed to be affected by mines1
- At least 25 states are affected by uncleared submunitions1
- Explosions in poorly managed ammunition storage areas killied and injured many hundreds of people in 2007 and 2008, contaminating previously safe land1
- More than a third of central Vietnam is still contaminated by unexploded ordnance2
- Nearly 100,000 households in Burundi are thought to possess small arms and light weapons, increasing the risk of a return to conflict at a time of ongoing political insecurity3
Click here for The solutions...
Click here for How you can help...
[Sources: 1Landmine Monitor; 2Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) and the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense’s Technology Center for Bomb and Mine Disposal (BOMICEN); 3Small Arms in Burundi, Disarming the Civilian Population in Peacetime, A Study by the Small Arms Survey and the Ligue Iteka with support from the UNDP-Burundi and Oxfam-NOVIB, Stéphanie Pézard and Nicolas Florquin, August 2007. This estimate takes into account all small arms and light weapons, and also grenades.]
Stockpile: a documentary film from D.R. Congo [Spin Film]
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