On the 27^th July our team will be taking part in the London to Cambridge Bike Ride thanks to the fantastic support of the local technology company, ARM. 20% of the money we raise goes to Breakthrough Breast Cancer and the rest of the money goes to Cam Sight, two worthwhile causes.

In our team there are 12 tandem riders on 6 tandems and they are:

Warren Wilson and Daniel Wierny

Jerry Gilbert and Dave Meredith
Pauline Brown and Chris Porter
Yijing Zhang and Sophie Zhang
Rojimon Cherian and Nick Bailey
Mick Scadden and Julian Philpott

We also have three bike riders and they are:

Anne Streather

Claire Pembery
Quentin Maile

We all have a link with Cam Sight in many ways either as clients, volunteers or employees and we are all hoping to raise a significant amount for a cause that’s close to each of us.

We will be raising awareness of Cam Sight's much loved tandem bike service, as a commemoration of the Tour de France and to raise money for Cam Sight! We are very grateful for your support and whatever you are able to donate will help spur us on the from London to Cambridge. For a bit more on the service Cam Sight provides to its clients please read on.

One service Cam Sight runs is groups for locally based visually impaired children, including a toddlers group, a group for kids of primary school age and a group for teenagers. Having attended each of these groups it is fantastic for the kids to be able to socialise and interact with other visually impaired children. They realise it is normal to hold things close to your face, read Braille and adapt the way you do things in order to live with sight loss.

Cam Sight also runs rural support groups, these groups reach out to people with a visual impairment who live in rural locations in Cambridgeshire and may struggle to travel into the city. This again has its benefits by showing people Cam Sight’s services in an accessible location and it encourages people in a similar position to socialise.

There is much more that Cam Sight does such as assisting people with benefit forms and providing clients with orientation training to help them get to a new work place but I hope the above gives you a sufficient feel for Cam Sight and the services the charity provides.

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