On May 29th my father and I with another 200 cyclists will take on the challenge of cycling 200 miles from Chatsworth House in Derbyshire back to Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire to raise money for the Bruno Bursary Fund.  Please read on to find out more about the Fund and the challenge.

The Fund is named after Jozef, an Old Amplefordian, and Vivian Mycielski's son Bruno, who was born and died in January 2015. To ensure a lasting tribute to him, they wanted to do something positive.

Therefore they decided to raise £600,000 for a bursary, in Bruno's name, at Ampleforth College. The funds will be kept in endowment so that each and every year they will generate £30,000 to cover the cost of one student in the school for that academic year. They requested that the students receiving Bruno's Bursary over the years be from a background most needing help and support, the most vulnerable and disadvantaged young people whose lives could change forever as a result of such a bursary at Ampleforth.

To raise funds for Bruno's Bursary, Jozef and 12 close friends, supported by Vivian and a team of their family and friends, cycled over 650 miles from Saint Bruno's birthplace in Cologne, Germany, via Holland, Belgium and France, back to Ampleforth Abbey and College in North Yorkshire in 2013.  This year, Team Bruno consists of 200 cyclists cycling the 200 miles from Chatsworth House to Ampleforth in just two days.  

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