the journey continues

Road to Recovery Charity Bike Ride 300 mile challenge

Fundraising for Changes UK
£4,226
raised of £5,000 target
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Participants: nicky dwyer, jack lloyd, ben murphy, Emma Chatfield, Megan Hayward, Kevin Earl, Chad Hoban
Changes UK

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We Support people in abstinent recovery to Change pain into purpose

Story

On July 10th we will be undertaking an epic 4 day 300 mile bike ride from Margate to SIAS, our local community drug and alcohol service in Solihull. We will ride across the East Kent coast turning inland at Eastbourne heading up to Guildford and oxford before the last leg of the journey taking us to Chelmsley wood. Six people who have all completed treatment and are enjoying a healthier life in recovery are sharing our journey. 

From start to finish we will blog and have live cam feeds throughout and would like as much community engagement and feedback as possible. Peers will share their recovery stories along the way and we hope through this it will help people understand how we can overcome and achieve anything!

We will dedicate each day of the ride to friends and colleagues who succumbed to addiction and did not make it out alive. 

Please make donations via our Just Giving page. All donations will go to Changes UK and 20% of all proceeds will also be donated to Marie Curie.

Sit back and enjoy the ride

The journey continues….

We are being supported by ChangesUk and SIAS Solihull, active wellbeing society as well as the local community. 

We would like to thank Everyone Active (North Solihull Sports Centre) for allowing us to train at their facilities free of charge to support us on our exciting challenge.


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About the charity

Changes UK

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We understand that abstaining from drugs and alcohol is just the beginning of building a new life free from addiction; therefore Changes provides services that support the whole recovery journey - from dependence to independence. We provide a detox service, community based rehabilitation, supported and move on housing and opportunities to gain accredited qualifications, volunteering and work experience. Service users at the beginning of their recovery journey are supported 24 hours a day by qualified staff and our specially trained volunteer peer mentors. They also have access to our Recovery Academy which, over an eight week full time course, begins to build the knowledge and skills that service users need in order to maintain their recovery, build a personal recovery support network (including mutual aid groups) and learn to live life to the full. Changes staff and volunteers are passionate people - we all consider it a privilege to work with people in recovery - and we know that we can help those looking for a new life beyond drugs and alcohol.

Donation summary

Total raised
£4,225.25
Online donations
£3,885.25
Offline donations
£340.00

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