Last year, Venture Properties organised our first ever 'Tour de Branch' charity bike ride. The idea? To ride from our most northerly office, in Chester-le-Street, to our most southerly office, in Darlington, while visiting all of our other branches en route - in Durham, Crook and Bishop Auckland. A grand total of 41 miles.

The ride was a huge success raising over £3000 for the Great North Air Ambulance Service. It was always our plan to raise money for as many charities as possible so we will alternate each year.

After taking a staff vote, the Alzheimer's Society was chosen as 2018's charity and our aim is to do the whole event bigger and better than last year to get as much funds in as possible for this worthy cause.

The number of riders and our fundraising target have both more than doubled which shows our ambition this year.

Please donate anything you can, no matter how small. It all goes to this wonderful charity and will be hugely appreciated by all the riders taking on this year's gruelling challenge.