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Anyone inspired by the recent Tour de France will soon get a chance to emulate their heroes in Essex.
Children’s charity Action Medical Research is holding its 11th annual ‘Essex Ride100’ event on Sunday 1 September in Colchester.
“Cycling is very much at the heart of our fundraising” says Action’s Community Fundraising Manager Lyndsay Wood. “We can’t wait to bring our event back to Essex – my home county – and raise lots of money for vital medical research.”
Riders will get the chance to choose from three routes: 39, 68 or 102 miles.
All of them will start and finish at Colchester Community Stadium with cyclists getting the chance to ride through a number of local towns and villages including Toppesfield, Castle Hedingham, Finchingfield and Great Bardfield.
Cycling has played a role in Action’s fundraising for many decades.
The charity recently held its 20th annual London – Paris bike ride (24-28 July) with participants getting a close-up view of the grand finale of the Tour de France.
Lyndsay says the atmosphere at the Essex Ride100 fundraiser is always special: “There’s always a really nice mixture of families and experienced cyclists who like to take on the longer routes.
“The Essex countryside is spectacular, so anyone who takes part will get to appreciate the gorgeous views and of course know that they’re helping a good cause.”
Online registration is £26 or £38 – depending on which route you choose – but you can currently get 20% off by using the code CFML.
To date, the Essex Ride 100 has raised around £330,000.
This year’s cycling event is proudly sponsored by Colchester based app and website agency, MonkeySource
Action Medical Research is a UK-wide children’s charity which funds desperately needed research to tackle the diseases that devastate the lives of so many of our children. It has been funding medical breakthroughs since it began in 1952 including helping to introduce the first polio vaccines in the UK, developing the use of ultrasound in pregnancy and testing the rubella vaccine.
The charity is currently funding research into areas including premature birth, epilepsy, asthma, scarlet fever, cerebral palsy, brain cancer and some rare and distressing conditions.
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Notes to Editors
People can register online before Wednesday 28 August
https://action.org.uk/events/cycling/essex-ride-100
On the day registration will be £45.
For more information about the Essex 100 please contact:
Lyndsay Wood (Fundraising Manager - Action Medical Research)
T 07594 970028
E lwood@action.org.uk
For more information on Action Medical Research, please contact Peter Denton, Fundraising Communications Officer, on:
T 01403 327412
E pdenton@action.org.uk
W action.org.uk
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Action Medical Research is a leading UK-wide charity saving and changing children’s lives through medical research. For more than 65 years we’ve helped pioneer ways to prevent disease and develop treatments benefiting millions of people. Our research has helped to beat polio in the UK, develop ultrasound in pregnancy, fight meningitis and prevent stillbirths. But we urgently need to develop more new treatments and cures for sick babies and children and we can’t do it without you.
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