Return Celebration

LEG 7 - DAY 7: THE FINAL DAY from Rad Hart-George on Vimeo.

 

The final part of the ride took us over Putney bridge and along the edge of the Thames, past the boat houses:

 

 

 

 

As we rode into Putney on Sunday we were greeted by family, friends and the Chiswick Lifeboat on the river, outside Thames Rowing Club. An amazing gathering which we were both very touched by.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This marked the end of our seven year expedition to cycle around all the lifeboat stations in Britain, and it’s fair to say that it was a moment of mixed emotions for us both- relief that we had returned in one piece without major incident, sadness that our trip had come to an end, and elation to be greeted by nearest and dearest including our respective wives and children. Quite a moment…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the club house, our celebrations continued – a great opportunity to catch up with so many friends, family and RNLI crew.

 

 

 

 

 

Particular thanks to:

 

·        Our two main sponsors- Knight Frank and Rackspace Cloud Hosting

·        All those who have donated so generously to us over the years

·        Flickie P-B- Our chief fundraiser!

·        Tony Vlasto- Chairman of the City of London RNLI- a phenomenal support

·        Will Holland,  the Peloton and support team

·        Thames Rowing Club for the use of their fantastic club house

·        Chiswick RNLI

RNLI Central London Committee Winter Lunch

A rather belated post about the wonderful RNLI Central London Committee 'Winter Lunch' which happened on the 29th January 2015.


Organised by a charmingly formidable group of ladies who share a passion for the RNLI but with a special mention for Pat Telfer and Ginna Gayner who not only invited us, encouraging us to ride our static cycles in full RNLI Tour of Britain kit in the foyer of the Royal Thames Yacht Club promoting our challenge but also kindly offered to direct the proceeds of the lunch to The RNLI Tour of Britain's fundraising efforts.


An enormous £9651 was raised which pushes us well past the £40k mark and has given us the momentum required to attempt to reach £50k by the time we roll back into London, circumnavigation complete in 2016.

Some photos of the event are below: