GB GROUP GEARS UP FOR 800-MILE CHARITY BIKE RIDE
As Bike Week (14-22 June) picks up speed, over 100 people from property and construction company The GB Group are getting ready to join a marathon bike ride across 14 counties to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.
Starting on Thursday 19 June, the "Tour de GB" follows an 811-mile route visiting 27 places from the north to the south of the country, including GB Group offices in Newcastle, Wakefield, Stockport, Rugby and Sunbury, as well as sites where building work is currently underway for clients ranging from care homes to hotels and universities.
A total of 27 teams of up to six people from GB Group's nationwide locations have volunteered to get on their bikes for the epic fundraiser, which starts on 19 June in Newcastle and finishes 43 days later in Sunbury. The Group will double the donation by matching the total figure raised by the teams via their JustGiving webpage https://www.justgiving.com/teams/Tour-de-GB.
GB Group executive chairman Martin Smout plans to join the team cycling from Selly Oak in Birmingham to the Group's Rugby office later in July. He said: "We organised a charity bike ride a couple of years ago which was a huge success, so we've dusted off our cycling helmets and planned an epic challenge to rival the Tour de France Grand Depart, which comes to the UK this year.
"Cancer Research UK does a fantastic job and we all want to do as much as we can to help. We've had a good response so far from our people, our clients and supply chain and we're all training and fundraising hard so we're confident we'll raise a significant sum."
The Tour de GB schedule:
19-24 June: Tyne and Wear (Newcastle and Sunderland);
24-26 June: Cumbria (Barrow);
26-30 June: North Yorkshire ( York);
30 June - 9 July: West Yorkshire (Leeds, Wakefield and Huddersfield);
9-10 July: Greater Manchester (Manchester);
10-11 July: Merseyside (Liverpool);
11-16 July: Cheshire ( Warrington);
16-18 July: Staffordshire (Cheadle);
18-22 July: West Midlands (Birmingham and Rugby);
22-24 July: Warwickshire (Great Alne);
24-29 July: London (Mill Hill and Greenwich);
29-30 July: Surrey (Epsom);
30-31 July: Berkshire (Sunninghill);
31 July: Surrey (Sunbury).
To make a donation, please visit the Tour de GB JustGiving page https://www.justgiving.com/teams/Tour-de-GB and keep up with the teams' progress via Twitter and Linkedin.
Photo caption: The GB Group's marketing manager Kelly Heselton (pictured here with a support team member) has organised this month's epic 811-mile Tour de GB cycle ride to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.
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Notes for Editors
The GB Group is a privately owned, award-winning and innovative complete property and construction solutions provider operating in a number of key industry sectors: care, student accommodation, residential (private and social), hotels and leisure, education and commercial. Property and construction solutions include site finding and development funding, full design, management and construction of new and refurbished facilities, improving operational efficiencies, through to aftercare and asset management. The 300-strong team is based in five regional offices: Surrey (Sunbury HQ); Tyne and Wear (Newcastle); Warwickshire (Rugby); West Yorkshire (Wakefield); and Cheshire (Stockport). Its specialist divisions include GB Development Solutions, GB Building Solutions, GB Care Solutions, GB Energy Solutions, Discovery Business Solutions, and GB Asset Management Solutions. For more information visit www.gbgroup.co.uk.