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Winter Walk for Whizz Kidz

Sunday 26th January 2025 in Bexhill!

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/winterwalkforwhizzkidz2025

Over 75,000 young people in the UK need a wheelchair to be mobile, and it’s Whizz Kidz who are getting the job done. The charity empowers young people by providing the right equipment, support, and confidence-building experiences they need to take an active role in society, with less reliance on others.

To help us raise funds we would like to invite you to take part in our annual 10k Winter Walk for Whizz Kidz. The walk can be done at any time during the month of January 2025. This is a challenge that you, your families and friends can participate in wherever you may be around the world! Our sole aim is to help Whizz Kidz achieve their goals whilst our walkers have the best time ever! Our WW4W’s have raised over £12k for the charity, allowing disabled young people in the UK to live their best possible lives through gained mobility and confidence. This is a really simple and effective concept. You simply donate £10 to take part – and that’s it! Simply go for your walk in January.

If you would like to walk as part of a larger group, join us at 10.30am on Sunday 26th January outside the Cooden Beach Hotel in Bexhill, East Sussex. We’ll be walking along the beach to Galley Hill and back – this was a really great day out in 2024! The hotel is even laying on a free tea or coffee for us walkers!

Stefano Morrelli (Steve)

Limited Edition Tesouro X RotR Watch!

The craftsmanship is evident in every watch designed by our sponsor, Tesouro.

But now Paul has designed a beautiful limited edition Heritage watch, in celebration of the most successful year’s fundraising for the RotR on behalf of Whizz Kidz and would like to give you the opportunity of ownership. In return, for every watch sold £120 will be donated to Whizz Kidz.

RotR X Tesouro Heritage watch
Movement: Swiss Automatic, 26 jewels, 38hr power reserve
Material: Stainless Steel 316L
Case Back: Exhibition glass back
Colour: Silver
Dial Colour: Green
Waterproof: 100M/328ft
Hands: hr/min/sec
Case Size: 40mm
Case Thickness: 10.80mm
Date Window
Unisex

All watches are hand built in dedicated Swiss manufacturing facilities, with full production control and quality assurance, and come with a free travel case and 2 year warranty.

Make no mistake, with these watches limited to only 10 pieces, this will be a rare watch to own, so don’t miss out.

Priced at £800.

Contact customerservice@tesourotimepiece.com to pre-order yours on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to request a particular serial number from 1 to 10, then please discuss first as serial numbers 1 and 7 are already sold.

Stefano Morrelli (Steve)

Founder & Organiser RotR

2024 Breaks New Fundraising Total!

I’m absolutely delighted to tell you that the RotR has, once again, had its most financially successful year to date. Together we have managed to raise an incredible £43,000 for Whizz Kidz in 2024, bringing our overall charitable contributions to £144,000!

Our signature event yesterday raised just shy of £10,300 and, considering the wet start to the day, 98 riders turned out to enjoy another warm welcome from the staff at the Milk Churn. They then went on to enjoy a rather nice dry ride!

Riders attending heard how the year began with our Winter Walk for Whizz Kidz, something that everyone can get involved in each January. This initiative came off the back of lockdown and has allowed us to raise over £12k to date. The Hop Run in June continued to gather momentum and raised £8500, an increase of £1000 on last year’s figures. Our long term RotR supporter and friend, Chris Harper, laid on a party with live music in Belgium and thanks to the generosity of all the Belgians, French, Dutch, Americans and English, she successfully raised over 2300 Euros. Our volunteers worked their socks off in the heat at the Heritage Sprint and raised nearly £1400 through the sale of raffle tickets and merchandise. Sarah Stockley’s one-off, handmade bunny made over £400 this year and our annual J&S and MotoGirl vouchers a similar amount. £660 was raised through some Facebook birthday fundraisers, and quiz nights at both La Salle Verte in Dover and the White Hart in Netherfield raised over £2000. Eva’s photography day at Sykes H-D another £450; the list goes on. And our fabulous riders who set up their JustGiving pages, and sought personal sponsors, raised in excess of £7000 for Whizz Kidz! There were also some notable fundraisers who cleverly used their company’s match-funding schemes to raise several thousand pounds.

We gained a wonderful new lead sponsor in T. Newman Ltd, joining Grosvenor Interiors as a lead sponsor. Our other sponsors, namely Expose Designs, Heated Driveway Systems, Sykes H-D, Sargents of Sussex, Drakemoor, GNA recruitment, Good Bits, and the Heritage Sprint all remain, and allow us to make the RotR what is it for you, and we were supported too by our friends at J&S Accessories, The Milk Churn, MotoGirl, Tesouro Timepiece, Tour1, BizWeb Solutions, the White Hart at Netherfield, B Road at the Stag and out official photographer, Olly T Media.

We also thank our talented musicians who take time out of their busy schedules to play for us. This year, music was provided by Lord Ant B and The Incredible Band.

Our highest personal fundraiser for the Ride of the Ruperts on Sunday was announced as Mike Stockley, and so Mike was handed a beautiful Tesouro Timepiece watch as a thank you for his efforts. The draw for the J&S Vouchers, MotoGirl voucher and Benjamin Bunny have taken place and winners have been notified.

So, finally, from me, an enormous thank you to everyone who participated in 2024 or supported us for Whizz Kidz. You are genuinely making a real difference to the lives of disabled young people in need, here in the UK.

My best wishes to you all and see you soon,

Stefano Morrelli (Steve)

Founder & Organiser RotR