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Cycle the Proms - Cycle for Life Beyond Sight Loss
Fundraising for Blind Veterans UK
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A team of staff members and volunteers from Blind Veterans UK’s Llandundo Centre will be riding tandems from Barkby Beach to the Cenotaph, Llandudno Promenade, Saturday 21st June.
"Sport is a big part of our veteran’s rehabilitation. Being shown how hobbies and interests such as cycling, rowing, horse riding and running are still possible with sight loss really builds their confidence and the belief that they can do anything they set their minds to – that there is life beyond sight loss. I will always remember the look on one of our older veteran’s face when he rode on the back of a tandem after being asked by one of our Rehab & Training team what he would like to do to do to make his day brighter"
In homage to this and to highlight that sight loss shouldn’t be a barrier to independent living and achieving the goals you set for yourself, our rear riders will be wearing a blindfold for sections of the ride.
If you would like to support the team in their challenge please make a donation today. All donations will be used to continue the work this amazing organisation does at its centre in Llandudno.
THANKYOU!"
This isn't the first event the team have undertaken this year to raise awareness of the good work of Blind Veterans UK
In order to commemorate Operation Deadstick six team members rode tandems from Portsmouth to the Pegasus Bridge Memorial on the 2nd May.
Operation Deadstick was the codename for a British airborne forces operation that took place as part of the Normandy landings, 6th June 1944. The mission's objective was to capture two road bridges in Normandy across the River Orne and the Caen Canal, which would provide the only exit eastward for British forces landing on Sword Beach. Failure to capture the bridges intact or to prevent their demolition by the Germans, would leave the 6th Airborne Division cut off from the rest of the Allied armies. There was also the risk that the Germans could use the bridges to give access for their armoured divisions to attack the landing beaches.
Responsibility for the operation fell to the men of 'D' Company 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - part of the 6th Airborne Division. The assault group comprised a reinforced company of six infantry platoons and an attached platoon of Royal Engineers. After a brief fire fight, both bridges were captures within minutes of landing and successfully defended against tank, gun boat and infantry counter-attacks.
Following the operation the bridge was renamed Pegasus Bridge in honour of the operation. The name is derived from the shoulder emblem worn by the British Airborne Forces, which is the flying horse Pegasus.
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