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.

16th August 2010 –  The eagles have landed
Yesterday our two brave fundraisers Donna Cleghorn and Niki Boyer skydived from 13000 feet in aid of P.O.C. Brilliant well done girls, fantastic effort. And thank you to all of you that donated in aid of their cause. Next step is to base jump the Sótano de las Golondrinas (Cave of Swallows), Mexico

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12 August 2010 – Whitby, Shakespere and Comar systems join the P.O.C Team

A great big thank you to our most recent sponsors; Whitby Logo Colour who have kindly donated us a Leatherman Surge, Princton headtorch, divers knife and a pair of waterproof binoculars. Whitby and co supply a wide range of high class outdoor products.  shspere have donated us a two highly important bits of equipment;  2 V-Tronix VHF and Emergency antennas for our radios! We wouldn’t get far with out these!   comar have donated  an AIS unit (Automated Identification System) This is an automated tracking system that sends out data about our craft to ships nearby, so as to assist with collision prevention. As you can imagine something as small as an ocean rowing boat will be hard to spot in the expanse of the Atlantic!

05 August 2010 -  Daring Donna and Risky Nikki charity skydive
Donna Cleghorn and Nikki Boyer are going to  be jumping from a perfectly good aircraft in  aid of P.O.C and Parkinsons UK. They will be jumping at Weston on the Green near oxford around the 14th of August.  The girls have never done anything like this before! Please sponsor them by clicking the donate button at the top of the page! Watch this space for more information. Thanks

28 July 2010 – London to London via the World
Sarah Outen and her  inspirational challenge, row cycle and kayak the world!!!!!!!! - http://sarahouten.co.uk/london-to-london-via-the-world/


25 July 2010 – Events

Thank you to all the visitors and donators who came along to our stall over the past few events – Liverpool Maritime weekend and the Windermere Airshow, shame about the weather at both, you cant beat good old British rain! Its that fine stuff soak thee to the skin !! But we still managed to raise a a few quid and drum up some more interest. We are desperately in need of sponsorship! So if you can help please get in touch or donate via the “donate” button. Thanks

01 July 2010 local media 
Please follow the link to see our most recent article in the Whitehaven News

30th of June 2010 update.
Hi to all, we managed to raise £1014.22 at the Whitehavhen Festival  last weekend. This has enabled us to fit the boat out with electronics and other pieces of vital equipment. We have a training row planned for the end of August which will be followed by local media, more information to follow.


26,27th June 2010 – Whitehaven Festival, Whitehaven, Cumbria.
The weekend of the 26th of June will see Whitehaven hold the international festival please follow the link http://www.thefestival.org.uk/ The boat is going to be at festival as well as other fantastic events and attractions, including live music (Status Quo, NDubz and Katherine Jenkins) air shows, celebrity chefs and much more. Our boat will be located on the Sugar Tongue which is the quay immediately opposite Zest restaurant. See you there.


26 May 2010 – Standard Horizon sponsor Parkinsons Ocean Challenge
We would to say a huge thank you to Standard Horizon and welcome them to the P.O.C team. Standard Horizon have kindly donated us a whole communication suite – including VHF Radios FIxed and Handheld! And a top of the range GPS chart plotter. Standard Horizon lead the industry in the manufacture of fixed and handheld VHF radios and GPS Chart Plotters, they  have been pioneer in marine electronics since 1969, producing world class products. We are very grateful for their support.

25 May 2010 – Keswick Mountain Festival
A big thank you to all that supported us over the weekend at the Keswick Mountain Festival, with out your support we wouldn’t be able to make our challenge and fundraising targets possible. We generated a lot of interest in the challenge whilst raising the awareness of Parkinson’s UK. In total we raised £315.60 over the whole weekend which is brilliant, this will be put towards the next stage of the challenge – “Fitting the Boat out”.  A massive thank you to BHS Construction of Workington and Cumbria Sea Fisheries  for their assistance with transport and logistics. And another massive thank you to Bluestone Events who organized the Mountain Festival and allocated us a space over the weekend.  We will be exhibiting at the Whitehaven Festival towards the end of June, more information to follow with regards to this.  Thank you.

Dont forget to follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/AtlanticRower and join our facebook group – www.parkinsonsoceanchallenge.co.uk

16 May 2010

Finally we have reached the end of the first stage of the challenge; Build the Boat!!!  And this could not have been achieved without the support of all our sponsors.. NEXEN, Transocean(especially the teams on onboard the Prospect Rig), Technip and not forgetting all you guys, thank you for your help.

The boat is due to be collected from the yard in Christchurch next week,and will be showing at the Keswick Mountain festival next weekend (19th-23rd). The line-up is packed full of outdoor activities, sporting competitions and great speakers. Our boat and info stand will be located at the Adveture Base which is in Crow Park, next to the Theatre By The Lake, On the shore of Derwentwater – There will be loads to do; come and take a look at the themed areas BIKE, CLIMB, HIKE, KIDS, PADDLE AND TRIATHLON. The weekend will be packed full of activities for all the family. Please check out their website http://www.keswickmountainfestival.co.uk

The next stage will involve fitting it out with all the necessary equipment required for the challenge, i.e GPS, radios, Oars, Lifesaving appliances, etc. Two of our sponsors.. Standard Horizon and Ambex Marine have donated us some Navigational Equipment and VHF radios, so another big thank you to them.

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.Cleghorn 1

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

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.

Up And Coming Events

Transocean Prospect Drilling Rig

Mathew and Chris would like to give a mention and a big thank you to the Transocean Prospect Oil Rig.  Thank you to Louise Macgregor for organising the Rig fitness challenge and thank you to the crew for al their hard work with the fitness challenge.  The challenge itself consists of teams, the challenge runs to the end of the April.  The team which has covered the most mileage by running, cycling, cross trainer etc… erm wins!


Sky Diving Challenge

On a date to be confirmed this summer Chris’s wife Donna and has agreed to do a charity parachute jump with the Weston on the Green parachute school in Oxford. Not only is Donna going to make the jump but has also managed to rope her colleague from work called Niki into the dare devil event.    The dates are yet to be confirmed, but the girls are soon to be looking for sponsorship for the event.