Thanks for taking the time to visit and find out more about The Festive Family Business Pedal 4 Good.

As an organisation that supports family business across the UK, family is everything to us. Each year, for the past four years, around the festive season we have undertaken our ‘Family Business Santa Dash,’ a tour of family businesses in our sponsored ‘sleigh’ raising money and collecting warm clothes for the homeless. 

Due to the pandemic placing restrictions of travel and visits, we have taken an innovative approach to our 2020 campaign and plan to do a bike ride of 400 miles on a static bike, equivalent to the distance between two fantastic award winning family businesses, Ridgeview Winery Estate in East Sussex and Hawkshead Relish in Cumbria. The campaign is being called the Festive Family Business ‘Pedal4Good.,' and we are raising money to support StreetSmart.

The word ‘home’ conjures feelings of warmth, family, friendship and love. To be homeless is to be alone, with no one to care about you. Tackling homelessness is not just about providing shelter from the elements, it is about providing advice, advocacy, education and meaningful occupation, but above all, care within a community that can be called ‘home’. 

This is what StreetSmart looks for in the projects that benefit from their endeavours, and what it hopes to enable the homeless to find. StreetSmart aims to support homeless organisations that provide the most personal and therefore most effective care; where a person is recognised as being an individual rather than just another statistic. For many of these projects, especially smaller community projects, the funding StreetSmart provides is an essential lifeline.

We are really proud to be undertaking this campaign for StreetSmart this year. I know that this is going to be a physical challenge but one that we will complete, sharing the trip on social media as a way to raise funds. 

StreetSmart is a small charity with a big heart that do incredible work supporting other organisations who make a difference across the whole of the UK. Since it was established in 1998, StreetSmart has granted funding to over 200 organisations, providing a broad range of services, support and companionship to the homeless and vulnerable across the UK. Last year alone, they were able to support around 4,000 homeless and vulnerable people through their initiatives.

It is a fantastic organisation and fits really well with the purpose of our campaign and the values we hold close as an organisation, making a real difference to people’s lives and supporting people across the UK at their time of need. It is a pleasure to be supporting their work through our ‘Pedal4Good’ and we hope that the family business community come together and help us achieve our goal.

Anyone wishing to make a donation can do so here and if you want to hop on your bike to join us, simply get on the bike, do some miles, make a donation and post a picture on twitter using the hashtag #Pedal4Good and tag @FamilyBizPaul and we will be sure to share it as part of the campaign too!