News and Events Diary

Hello to all and welcome to the Parkinson’ s Ocean Challenge news and events page. On here you will find all the latest news about Parkinson’s Ocean Challenge. You will also find information on up and coming events for example where will be displaying the boat next or what the next fundraising event will be. We will endeavor to update this at least once a week as we progress with our campaign to raise money to undertake this challenge. If anyone has any ideas about fundraising then please contact us, we are always looking for new ideas.

25th January  2010

In support of P.O.C and the Parkinson’s disease Society David Vaughan, Matthew Swinton and Chris flynn will undertake the Coast to Coast cycle challenge. The guys will be cycling from Whitehaven to Newcastle during the 4th 5th and 6th of March, a distacne of approximately 140 miles. If you would like to sponsor them please get in touch by email: rowtheatlantic@yahoo.co.uk or by telephone: 07590330095

Thanks

12 December 2009

Hello to all

Getting there slowly but surely.

We have now managed to raise £12,848 with all the help from our kind sponsors.This has gone towards the design and construction of our boat, at Rossiter Yachts of Christchurch. She has around 5 weeks of construction left and hopefully should be completed in the not too distant future, the next stage will be to transport her to  her temporary home at Whitehaven Harbour  courtesy of Marina Projects Ltd who have allowed us to use their storage facility. Once we have more sponsors on board we can then fit and kit the boat with all the equipment required for our journey.

We are still in desperate need of sponsorship, so if you are interested or have any suggestions please get in touch.

rowtheatlantic@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for visiting

Three Peaks Challenge

Around June time this year Mathew Chris, Jordan (step son) and the dog will be doing the three Peaks Challenge. Exact timings and support crew have yet to be confirmed. For any one who doesn’t know what the three peaks challenge is here is a run down.

The three peaks challenge is a fitness event covered over 24 hrs. The team have to climb/run the three biggest mountains in the Scotland, England and Wales within 24 hrs. This is done by the use of transport and your legs. The team take it in turns to drive the distances between the mountains.

Marketing News

Mathew and Chris are pleased to announce we now have a marketing company helping us with the marketing of our challenge, we are also about to launch an email campaign to companies.   We hope this will raise awareness and interest in the challenge. The marketing company helping us with the challenge is Marketing file.com they have been kind enough to give us all the data needed to email companies.

Seaworks 2009

On the 16th of June 2009 Mathew and Chris will be attending the Seaworks Exhibition in Southampton.  They hope to attend the exhibition in order to raise awareness of the challenge and to explore the possibilities of receiving some help with donations of equipment for the boat.  So the kit list part of the website will hopefully be updated in the near future.  Seaworks exhibition is a business to business commercial exhibition attracting over 6000 visitors from around the globe.  For more information click here

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