Dr Prasad, Ram and I recently visited Kerala to begin planning the route for Cycle India 2012.
We’ve now uploaded an itinerary to the Heal website at: http://www.heal.co.uk/cycle-ride-itinerary.html. Initially, we were intending the ride to take part in early January, but as it is the holiday season the accommodation rates were too high, so we’re now scheduled to hold the event from 20 January to 30th January (from leaving UK, to arriving back in UK).
The good news is the scenery will be wonderful for our cycle ride, and the accommodation will be excellent as the area is used to dealing with tourists. There are links to the hotels and resorts on the Heal website. We will be using a specialist charity bike ride company based in Kerala to make all the arrangements. We will, of course, be visiting the Heal Children’s Village after the event to see the good work of the charity, and we will also visit the site of our new Heal Paradise Village at Vijayawada.
The bad news is we’ll be cycling around 340 km over 5 days, and it’s not completely flat. So a degree of training will be required 
And, of course, there will be support vehicles if necessary.
There’s currently around 20 people from the UK and US signed up, and we’re aware of a number of people probably taking part. If you are definitely wishing to take part please email me back ASAP and pay your registration fee at: http://www.heal.co.uk/register-for-cycle-india.html . We’re expecting around 30-40 to be taking part in what we expect to be Heal’s best ever Cycle India event.
The two Cycle India events we have organised have raised Heal over £170,000. Our hope is that this charity bike ride can raise over £100,000 in the UK, and a further $100,000 in the US also. We’ve started work on our new Heal Paradise Village so fundraising is required now more than ever.
If you can take part, please let me know ASAP.
Kind Regards
Matthew Glover
Head of Fundraising
matthew@conservatoryoutlet.co.uk
PS. There’s some pictures from our recent visit uploaded to Flickr click here.