Sponsor a BEARR Trustee

Nicola Ramsden, a long-standing BEARR Trustee, is taking part in the Sprint Triathlon to be held on 21st September in St Albans, in the 50+ age category (of people who still have their own knees, as Nicola puts it).

This event is not for wimps.  Participants have to swim 400m, cycle 20km, and then run 5km. While each of these is well within Nicola’s capacity (she is, among other things, a trained skiing instructor) with a rest day or two between them, it is rather different to do them one after the other, against the clock. This is the first time Nicola has ever tried anything like this.  She is rather enjoying the training but  making no commitments about whether she will repeat the experience!  Still it makes a change from her former life as an investment banker, and she is enjoying having a less sedentary life these days.

The event is organised by Hope and Homes for Children, who will use part of the funds raised to close four institutions in Romania and move over 300 children into family-based care. Nicola will give part of the sponsorship she raises to Hope and Homes, and the rest to BEARR.

If you would like to sponsor Nicola, you can do that through her Justgiving website www.justgiving.com/nicolaramsden.   

 Francis Callaway, another BEARR Trustee,  went on a sponsored cycle ride to Vietnam in October 2007, and raised some £5000 for BEARR. Francis hopes to arrange another sponsored ride, this time to Central Asia, in 2009.