Charity cycle ride to Madrid

Over the past few weeks our Year 7-10 school community have been taking part in a big charity event, raising money for The Wellspring. This is a local charity supporting people who are homeless or at risk of losing their home, and we’re very proud to be helping them do their brilliant work. More details are available at The Wellspring | Charity for Homeless

The challenge involves each year group cycling a quarter of the way from Marple to Madrid in one day, on exercise bikes, over four days. The daily target of 300 miles would see us reach the 1200 mile target by the end of today, Friday. As I’m writing this on Friday morning years 7, 8 and 9 have already exceeded expectations and the current total cycled stands at 1048. Year 10 therefore just need to finish the job today, although I’m sure they won’t be taking it easy and will smash well past the final goal.

However, in order for a form to be able to put forward their cyclists, they had to raise at least £50 for the charity pot. This led to all sorts of fund raising ideas with cake sales galore, raffles, sponsored silences and much more. The highest individual fundraising effort was from a Year 7 student George who raised £120 on his own selling his cakes outside of school, and the most prolific form was Miss Swift’s form, who together raised a staggering £357 (and still counting)!

In total the school community has at the moment raised £2652 with more donations still coming in. Not only that, but the cycling challenge has gone brilliantly with lots of positivity and teamwork on show. Obviously though the 500 meters I chipped in at the start on Tuesday made all the difference….

It’s been great watching the creativity and drive on show from the school community, and I’d like to thank Mrs Wilson and the student leaders for making this happen. Well done to everyone involved.

Have a great weekend,

Joe Barker

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