Chariots of Fire is one of Cambridgeshire’s largest annual charity events. Organised and managed by Hewitsons Charitable Trust, the event will see teams of six each run a 1.7 miles course in relay format, to raise money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA).

A team from Medovate Ltd will be amongst hundreds of relay runners taking on the iconic Chariots of Fire Charity Relay event this year in September.

We are determined to help make up for lost time and raise as much as we can to make up for last year’s event having to be cancelled due to the pandemic.

Our team members are: Alan Finnerty, Rob Donald, Tracy Eke, Peter Cox, Mark Heath and April Hatchard.

This year’s race will support EAAA with a £97,500 project to provide more life-saving CPR and defibrillator training. Currently, survival rates from an out of hospital cardiac arrest are just one in ten, but more awareness and confidence in delivering bystander CPR and access to defibrillators are key to helping improve these odds.

Supporting this event makes perfect sense for Medovate as a Cambridge-based medical device manufacturer.

As a company specialising in the areas of regional anaesthesia and critical care, it is a charity that is close to the company’s cause and we feel privileged to be able to support the work EAAA are doing in the community to help increase CPR and defibrillator training and
increase the survival rates from cardiac arrests.

Chariots of Fire is a wonderful annual event bringing together local businesses, the college community and the general public all in support of a good cause.

Since the event started in 1992, Chariots of Fire has raised over £1.48 million for local and regional charities, with an estimated 6,245 teams having taken part in the race, with approximately 37,470 individual runners pitting themselves against each other.

It takes place on Sunday 19 September with the race starting
and ending on Queens’ Green and following a 1.7-mile route through some of Cambridge’s historic city centre and two world renowned Cambridge University Colleges, over the River Cam and along the Backs.