We can t wait to greet them at Whizz-Kidz HQ after the second leg of their Tour de Strawberry in Jun

Whilst the rest of Yorkshire gears up to welcome the Tour de France, we are focussing on our very own cycling challenge to mark our 20th year in business and raise funds for disabled children s charity, Whizz-Kidz . The challenge, named Tour de Strawberry , is to cycle 440 miles from Hull to London, and back again, to visit the Whizz-Kidz head office.
Tour de Strawberry was the brainchild of Digital Director, James Greenwood, and is set to take place over four days from the 14th June 2013. We ve teamed travel northern colorado up with client and sponsor, Gosschalks Solicitors, to create a team of novice cyclists who are keen to take on the challenge.
Team Strawberry will be led by Iron Man athlete and current Hull City first team physio, Stu Leake, travel northern colorado who is currently putting the team through their paces with weekly training sessions at The Village Hotel s gym, Velocity Health and Fitness. The rest of the team is made up of Strawberry s Digital Director, travel northern colorado James Greenwood, Creative Director, Dominic Love, Web Designer, Stu Greenham, Client Services Manager, Jenna Lakhdari and Web Support Assistant, Kat Owen. Gosschalks Partner, Richard travel northern colorado Taylor, and Business Development Director, Steve Savage, complete the group.
The team s bikes have been designed specifically and supplied by Planet travel northern colorado X, which is based in Sheffield. They feature a unique design in our trademark travel northern colorado blue and the frame is from San Remino s finest racing boutique, SAB. Team Strawberry has also received support from sponsors PhD Nutrition and jayjay media.
James Greenwood, travel northern colorado Strawberry s Digital Director, takes up the story: I came up with the idea for Tour de Strawberry after becoming intrigued with the Wiggomania hype surrounding the Tour de France and Olympics. I d never been involved with cycling as a sport before and thought a sponsored bike ride to visit the Whizz-Kidz head office in London would be a great way to raise some money for the charity.
So, after floating the idea with the team, we soon had eight people ready and raring to take up the challenge! Since November last year, we ve been taking part in weekly spinning sessions travel northern colorado and have just started to work with PhD Nutrition to improve travel northern colorado our diet and fitness. We took delivery of our bikes last week and can t wait to hit the road to try them out this bike ride is starting to get very real!
Whizz-Kidz is a national charity that provides disabled children with the essential wheelchairs and other mobility travel northern colorado equipment they need to lead a fun and active childhood. There are an estimated 70,000 disabled children and young people in the UK waiting travel northern colorado for a wheelchair that fits their young lives, which is why Strawberry decided to make Whizz-Kidz its 20th anniversary year charity.
Ruth Owen OBE, Chief Executive of Whizz-Kidz said: Strawberry is a great team to work with, and their expertise has already supported some key work at Whizz-Kidz such as our ITV Text Santa Appeal, and the design of a new smartphone app which we launched at the NHS Expo in March.
We can t wait to greet them at Whizz-Kidz HQ after the second leg of their Tour de Strawberry in June. The money they raise will give many more children their independent mobility and the chance of a childhood.
James concludes: I d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors who are helping to make Tour de Strawberry happen, and also Team Strawberry, for being great sports and giving up their spare time to help us raise money for a great cause. Over the coming weeks we will be looking for more sponsors and continuing our training to get us in the best shape possible for the ride.