Steve Blunt London-Cape Town
Event: London - Cape Town Rally between 01/01/2012 and 28/01/2012
Team Members: Steve Blunt
£3,226.00 raised
64 donations
My Target:
£3,226.00 raised so far
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My story
I thought I would add a short postscript to below - post rally. Some of you may know that we won the event by just 38 seconds after 29 hard days of competition and nearly 10k miles through 14 countries. I would like to thank everyone who has donated via this site and by other means for such a great little charity and, in so doing, helped us to this success. Just to take part in such an historic motorsport event was great but to win was a privilege. The car is now to go on display in the Brooklands Motor Museum and a short video from our in-car cam from the last day is on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIiy5LimjU
Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.
This is my third long-distance rally and I reckon the hardest by some margin. Like the previous 2 (North Sweden-Aquaba and London-Sydney), I'll be doing it with my co-driver and vastly experienced navigator Bob Duck. The event is over 10,000 miles from London to Cape Town in 28 days through 14 countries. It is highly competitive rally via some of the most inhospitable roads in the world and it starts under Big Ben in London on 1st January 2012.
The event will capture the spirit of the classic long-distance rallies of the 1970's such as London-Sydney and London-Mexico and is designed to be just as arduous. Organised service support is not allowed and the crew of 2 must carry almost everything they need to keep going for 28 days, driving by day and servicing and repairing by night.
I'm raising money for a great charity; incidentally established by another car nut. African Revival funds schools in rural areas of Africa where up to 80% of the population don't receive regular education. £ for £ it makes a massive difference to people's lives whether it be in self-sustaining agriculture, reducing HIV Aids or reducing infant mortality. The rally will be visiting schools en route allowing us to see their great work for ourselves and each competitor will be carrying a number of books to drop off on the way.
Our car is number 23 - a Subaru Impreza 2.0 standard saloon - not even a turbo. It has modified suspension and extra under-guarding to survive the rough roads of Africa but otherwise is mechanicallystandard and was bought from ebay for just over £3000 as an insurance write-off. Oh - and we'll be going the entire way on van tyres! I'll be putting a video of the car on this site at a later date.
Please help me raise funds for African Revival's great work. Keep track on the results of the event in January by checking www.londoncapetownrally.com. Also check out my blog at http://stevebluntlondontocapetownrally.blogspot.com/ which I will try to keep updated.
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My charity
African Revival
Charity Registration No. 1108718
Our vision is of an Africa where children have access to education, opportunity, and choice. African Revival currently works with remote and marginalised communities in Zambia and Uganda. Founded in 2005, we have touched the lives of over 250,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa in just 5 years.
Donations 64
What an amazing adventure, many congratulations Steve and good to see you last night.
Donation by Joanna Talbot on 25/05/12
£30.00
+ £7.50 Gift Aid
On a motorbike next time please ;0)
Donation by Chris Holme on 25/05/12
£30.00
+ £7.50 Gift Aid
Passing on more funds given to me for AR - thanks to all who have donated. Steve
Donation by Steve Blunt on 25/05/12
£100.00
+ £25.00 Gift Aid
Donation by Andrew Stafford on 25/05/12
£30.00
+ £7.50 Gift Aid
Thanks for the tickets!
Donation by Lucy Shutes on 23/04/12
£36.00
+ £9.00 Gift Aid
Thanks to all who have given & sent goodwill messages while Steve & I were in Africa. It was a fantastic adventure, I've not come down to earth yet!
Donation by Bob Duck on 31/03/12
£65.00
+ £16.25 Gift Aid
Steve Terrific effort and to win by 38 seconds after 10,000 miles makes it that much more sweet.
Donation by Andrew Holderness on 30/03/12
£250.00
Superb effort. Well done.
Donation by Paul Bugden on 29/03/12
£50.00
+ £12.50 Gift Aid
Fantastic result for a fantastic cause - Congratulations!!
Donation by CJ King on 29/03/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Congratulations - great result, fundraising and very interesting read.
Donation by Karen Hanson on 28/03/12
£20.00
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
Excellent effort, now looking forward to Part 2 the unveiling at Brooklands!
Donation by Jerry and Debbie on 26/02/12
£50.00
+ £12.50 Gift Aid
Thank you Steve and Bob for sharing your experiences with us
Donation by Brian Cope on 10/02/12
£50.00
Congratulations Steve - a great result!!
Donation by Christine McGimpsey on 07/02/12
£25.00
+ £6.25 Gift Aid
Well done Steve, Great effort.
Donation by Liam O'mahoney on 07/02/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Well done Steve and Bob, Anni's very proud of you x
Donation by Steve and Carol Aldred on 06/02/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
As promised. Brilliant valiant effort, have been following with intense great in-trepidation after coming to see you off in London.
Donation by Nathan Marriott on 31/01/12
£100.00
+ £25.00 Gift Aid
Congratulations Steve. Nail-biting stuff! Enjoy a few days off!
Donation by Hilary Griffin on 31/01/12
£50.00
+ £12.50 Gift Aid
I put 50p on you to win at odds of 100-1, so can now afford to donate the winnings (but not the stake) to charidee. Well done - see you soon
Donation by Paul Duxbury on 30/01/12
£50.00
+ £12.50 Gift Aid
Congratulations Steve - enjoy the celebrations!
Donation by Lorraine Morris on 29/01/12
£25.00
+ £6.25 Gift Aid
Well done Bob and Steve! Have followed your progress daily. Loved all the reports and photos.
Donation by Tony and Liz Green on 29/01/12
£30.00
+ £7.50 Gift Aid
Well done Steve - great to read your daily blog
Donation by Paul Mitchell on 28/01/12
£80.00
+ £20.00 Gift Aid
Well Done Steve!
Donation by Laura Melbourne on 23/01/12
£30.00
+ £7.50 Gift Aid
Keep going and good luck. A very worthwhile fundraising cause.
Donation by Bruce Gardiner on 20/01/12
The donation is in recognition of your revelation about Her Majesty's skateboarding
Donation by Adam Lambert on 19/01/12
£20.00
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
Safe travels and good luck
Donation by Polli Camp on 17/01/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Donation summary
- * Online donations£3,226.00
- Offline donations£0.00
- Text donations£0.00
- Total raised£3,226.00
- Gift Aid£639.00
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