Fundraising

FUNDRAISING.

Fundraising is always an option for anyone participating in the Bikeathon. We have no affiliation with a particular charity so you are welcome to raise funds for any good cause of your choice. Many local and national charities have benefited from riders’ fundraising efforts over the years and we are also pleased that volunteers from number of charities, including ARC Information and Counselling and The Lion Club, are able to support us on the day in return for a contribution to their organisations. If you are looking for inspiration for a good cause, we have a few listed below and if you have a good fundraising story to tell, please get in touch and perhaps we can help spread the news about your efforts through our Facebook Page and our Media partner, The Wokingham Paper.

SPROCKETS.

Sprockets is a young riders club focussed on having fun through cycle sport. The sessions are based upon the British Cycling Go-Ride syllabus and currently cover core riding, cyclocross, road and mountain bike disciplines.

Separate sessions for under 6 Rugrats, under 9 (approx) Sprockets Rascals and over 9 (approx) Sprockets Racers.’

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The Wokingham Volunteer Centre.

The Wokingham Volunteer Centre has been in existence as a registered charity for over 40 years and supports other charitable organisations and elderly and disabled clients across the whole of Wokingham Borough. We work with over 400 volunteers a year and help place them in a wide range of community, voluntary and charitable groups across the borough, work with and support groups and organisations that require volunteers (including providing training) and promote the benefits of volunteering to the local community.

We run three community schemes delivered by volunteers. The Wokingham Transport Scheme ensures just over 900 local vulnerable and elderly clients get to essential medical appointments across the Borough and beyond. The Wokingham Green ‘n’ Tidy gardening scheme provides a basic gardening service for elderly and disabled residents of Wokingham Borough who cannot maintain their own properties, do not have local family support or lack the financial resources to employ commercial companies (on pension credit or disability allowance.) The Wokingham Town Mobility Scheme helps anybody with walking difficulties (temporary or permanent) get around Wokingham Town Centre by hiring out mobility scooters. So overall, we support over 1000 vulnerable and elderly people to maintain their independence, help manage their long term health conditions and stay in their own homes longer. Please do visit our website for full details of what we do.

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Neros.

The Neros Foundation aims to relieve hardship and poverty among the communities and residents of Neros village and elsewhere on the island of Indonesia, by providing goods or services which those communities and residents could not otherwise afford.

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Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice .

Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice is developing Berkshire’s very own local children’s hospice service.
We support children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions – and their families – throughout the area.

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Berkshire Vision.

Berkshire Vision is a local registered charity with over 100 years of expertise and experience in the provision of services, advice and support to more than 2,000 people across Berkshire who are blind or partially sighted.

We aim to provide visually impaired people (VIPs) with the information and support they need to live independently and safely. We offer a wide range of services to VIPs and their families as well as working with health and social care professionals, local employers and community groups to improve their understanding of visual impairment and the needs of those affected by all forms of vision loss. We also provide vital practical and emotional support to VIPs and their families, we have a children’s activity club, social clubs and a full range of sporting activities for all ages.

We are here to combat their isolation, to support their independence and to boost their self-esteem. Sight loss does more than take away a person’s sight, it can take away their self-confidence, independence leaving them feeling isolated and alone.

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ARC Information and Counselling.

ARC is a local charity the provides a free and confidential youth counselling service, accessible in schools and around the borough. We also see adults in our Wokingham , early, Woodley and Twyford sites.

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Building for the Future.

Building for the Future is a parent-led charity working towards providing a community centre for disabled children and their families locally. With over five hundred families with disabled children in Wokingham Borough, our aim is to provide a place which families can call their own, where children are accepted, valued and welcomed and where their families can receive support, share information and meet with others in a similar situation to themselves.

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Home-Start Wokingham District.

Home-Start Wokingham District is an independent registered charity supporting struggling families, with at least one child under five, living within the boundaries of Wokingham Borough. Our volunteers, visit families in their own home and offer a lifeline to those parents who feel overwhelmed and in desperate need of support, reassurance and friendship.

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Relate Berkshire.

Relate Berkshire offers relationship counselling, sexual therapy and family counselling for couples, families, singles and young people to help make relationship changes for the better.

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Sue Ryder.

Sue Ryder offer incredible care for people living with incurable illnesses.

At Sue Ryder we believe every person living with an incurable illness has the right not just to receive specialist medical care, but also the emotional support they need to cope with the difficult and often distressing effects of their illness. We treat every person in our care individually, offering them as much freedom and flexibility as possible, to live out the rest of their lives in the way they want and deserve.

Every penny raised helps us continue providing our care locally through our services Nettlebed Hospice in Henley and DOKH Hospice in Reading, and through our Day Therapy Centres in Wokingham and Newbury.

Contact vicki.collins@sueryder.org for a fundraising pack today

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The Link Visiting Scheme.

The Link Visiting Scheme is a befriending service operating throughout Wokingham Borough in Berkshire. We are a registered charity and focus primarily on those aged over sixty and requiring some extra friendship and support.

We match volunteers with older people who would benefit from seeing a friendly face, usually for around an hour once a week. We visit more than 140 local people each week and also provide a variety of other social activities on a regular basis (See ‘Using our Services’) We work in partnership with local churches and we are supported by Wokingham Borough Council.

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Limbcare.

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Me2 Club.

Me2 Club relies on heavily on donations and we are very grateful for help from the Wokingham Bikeathon. The £500 will enable us to support a child at their weekly mainstream activity for a whole year; allowing them to have lots of fun whilst giving their families approximately 50 hours of valuable respite.

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Sport in Mind.

Thank you to the Wokingham Bikeathon for their kind donation.
Sport in Mind relies on the generosity of the public to enable us to support the recovery of people experiencing mental health problems through sport and physical activity.

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Fundraising

FUNDRAISING.

SPROCKETS.

The Wokingham Volunteer Centre.

Neros.

Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice .

Berkshire Vision.

ARC Information and Counselling.

Building for the Future.

Home-Start Wokingham District.

Relate Berkshire.

Sue Ryder.

The Link Visiting Scheme.

Limbcare.

Me2 Club.

Sport in Mind.

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