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Cycle India 2008 Update

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Archive 2007

The plans for Heal’s most ambitious fundraising event – Cycle India 2008 – are taking shape.

As of 18th September, 2007, we have 22 UK participants signed up for the 220 mile bike ride through Andhra Pradesh, although there is still space for two or three more daring individuals to add their names.

In June 2008, Dr Koneru Prasad (Founder), Mr Carl Brodie (Chairman) and Matthew Glover (Head of Fundraising) flew out to Andhra Pradesh to plan the route and make the necessary arrangements. There is real excitement from the locals of the region with a number of Indian cyclists taking part and helping with the organisation of the event.

The adventure includes a boat trip down the picturesque Godavari river, 4 days cycling through scenic coastal areas and then two days meeting the children at the Heal Children’s Village in Guntur.

The cyclists are currently getting fit and trying very hard to raise the minimum £2500 sponsorship figure.

If you are interested in taking part or helping our Cycle India project in any way please contact matthew@conservatoryoutlet.co.uk

Appeal for cyclists

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Archive from 2007

Appeal for cyclists 
 
Three of the cyclists taking part in Cycle India make an appeal on Youtube for more participants.

The video was organised by Matthew Glover, head of fundraising, and organiser of the charity bike ride.

There are currently 22 cyclists signed up for this once in a lifetime opportunity, but there are still a few spare places.

If you are interested in getting fit, helping our charity and fancy a real challenge contact matthew@conservatoryoutlet.co.uk for more information.

Please note – this is an archived news item, but we are now working on a repeat performance Cycle India 2010.  Please look at the Cycle India section of this website for more detail!

New Heal Website

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

We’ve been working hard creating a new Heal website along with the extremely generous efforts of our new website designers – Motionlab.  A very big thank you to Steve and the team for all your efforts in helping create such a fantastic new home for all our news about Heal, our projects and most importantly our children.

We’ve got a more modern looking website now, and crucially we have the use of the CMS (content management system) which allows us to keep the website more up to date than we’ve been able to in the past.  There’s also a blog (which is what you are reading now) which allows us to create interesting new stories and share them with the rest of the world far quicker and easier.

There’s also going to be an easier way for people to sign up for our exciting charity bike ride – Cycle India – by using our Sign Up Now form.

We hope you enjoy our new website and please get in touch if you have any suggestions or comments.