****UPDATE – We raised over £2750 for PROSTATE CANCER UK – what a brilliant effort from everyone concerned. Thank you all so much for your hard work and all the donations received – UPDATE****
Join us on Saturday 21 June from 9.00am at West Kirby Concourse if you can, use your own static bikes at home or go for a real ride
Prostate Cancer is the most common form of cancer for men in the UK and it’s not surprising that most of us know someone who has suffered or is suffering from it. In the absence of a national screening programme, essential early diagnosis is frequently missed.
So, how’s your cycling? We need you and your bike (exercise or otherwise) as once again, West Kirby Rotary Club is fundraising for PROSTATE CANCER UK, and we would really appreciate your support. We are running a hybrid cycling event (and we’d love you to join in) using our road and exercise bikes to cycle ‘virtually’ between 7 key North West Cancer Centres on Saturday 21st June 2025. The route is – Countess of Chester, Clatterbridge, Arrowe Park, Royal Liverpool, Christies (Manchester) & back to Broadgreen. This will be a minimum of 170.6km between us, although with support of family, friends and fellow Rotarians we hope to clock up many more beating last year’s total of around 400Km. If you’re able to take part remotely on the day or in the week before or following, just record your mileage (or should that be kilometrage?), tag West Kirby Rotary on Facebook, Instagram or X with the distance travelled and we’ll add it all together for a final total. Photos are very welcome. Persuade your family and friends to join in too and donate or sponsor you.
Last year we raised over £1500 (including Gift Aid) and it would be wonderful to beat that this year.
As in previous years, the local sports centre in West Kirby is supplying us with outdoor static biking facilities so you can come along to the West Kirby Concourse Sports Centre from 9.00am on Saturday 21st June 2025 where West Kirby Rotary Club will kick off the cycling event on two static bikes, outside but under cover, pedalling away in relay, with the distance ridden indicated on our “laser display board”. Unfortunately, Cycle Team GB won’t be there but you don’t have to be an Olympic cyclist to take part and we’ve had all ages and abilities pedalling in previous years as part of the overall effort. Please come along on the day to support if you can.
We’re also urging people to get on their own dynamic bikes and under their own steam (and responsibility), to pedal away on a real unsupervised ride wherever they choose in the fresh air, weather and muscles permitting. If you’d rather use your own exercise bike and get sweaty in front of the telly or in the garden, that’s good too. Please post on Facebook with the distance travelled to be added to the total (photos also welcomed!).
A suggested donation for riders of £5 per adult and £2 per child would be great, but any support /sponsorship / donations would be welcome – maybe get your family and friends to sponsor you as well. We did think about a suggested donation per kilometre cycled but concluded that this would probably be counter-productive.
You can follow us on Facebook from 9.00 am on Saturday 21st June 2025 as we start the event with live videos and updates:
https://www.facebook.com/westkirbyrotaryclub/
ALL sponsorship will go to Prostate Cancer UK who have a simple ambition – to stop men dying from prostate cancer. Through shifting the science over the next 10 years to focus on radical improvements in diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and support, we will stop prostate cancer being a killer. You can donate to our JustGiving page by clicking here:
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