Welcome friends, family and supporters! So I’m off again on my push bike. This time I’m cycling nearly 1,000 miles across Britain, from Lands End to John O’Groats. My Dad will be joining me on this epic journey and I’m hoping a very kind family member is going to be our backup driver.

Initial plans are to complete the challenge sometime in the first two weeks of September 2012. Unfortunately breaking my wrist in December 2011 has meant I will not have been on a bike for three months, leaving only have six months on the bike training…worrid, me, nah! I got an exercise bike for Christmas so I’ve been peddling away in my room.

Once again I will be raising money for WaterAid, as many of you will know it’s a charity very close to my heart. I came across the WaterAid website towards the end of 2009 when planning my London to Paris cycle and quickly became shocked at the statistics I was reading. Lack of clean, safe drinking water and adequate sanitation is a real killer in the world’s poorest countries. I realised I took far too much for granted in my life and wanted to give a little back in any way I could.

 1 in 8 of the world’s population does not have access to safe water and 2.6 billion (not a typo that is with a B) do not have access to adequate sanitation. Diarrhoea kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined meaning one innocent child dies every 20 seconds due to unclean water and poor sanitation. The integrated approach of providing water, sanitation and hygiene reduces the number of deaths caused by diarrhoeal diseases by an average of 65%.

I hope you are as shocked at these appalling statistics as I was and you dig deep to support us on our epic cycle for a great charity that really is making a difference to people’s lives.

How your donations help:

 · £15 is enough to provide one person with clean drinking water and sanitation.

· £50 pays for enough cement to protect a spring benefiting 300 people in Uganda

· £60 pays for the pipes and handpump for a 30ft shallow tubewell for ten families in Bangladesh.

· £1000 pays for the complete costs of building a 15 meter well, including a handpump to benefit 500 people in Tanzania

The trip costs have been paid for so 100% of your donation will go directly to WaterAid to help End Water Poverty.

Please give all you can!

Thank you x

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