Condors help raise £4,000 for Helen & Douglas House!

Thanks to everyone who came along or bought tickets for the fundraiser on Saturday night. We’ve raised a staggering £4,000 for Helen & Douglas House, a huge achievement for which we can all be really proud. We initially set a very aspirational target of £3,000 and never dreamt that we would go this far above and beyond, especially for a first time event.

The Condors have always been embedded and connected with the Oxford community, so it’s great to have had a lot of fun while also supporting a really important local charity caring for children, young adults and their families. If you missed it yesterday, please watch this video to find out why we wanted to support them.

We sold more than 150 tickets and had over 100 of you there on the night. It was great to see a contingent of Mickey Cranks riders there too – chapeau for making the trip over from Witney! As the newest club to join the Oxfordshire Road Race League we look forward to riding with (and against!) them this coming season.

Huge thanks to Steve Jenkins, landlord at The Chequers who provided the curry and venue for free, and to all the Condors and Condor-friends who donated prizes:

Beeline Bikes and Greenoak Construction
Tom Kirk at Custom Cycle Coaching
Iconic Cycling Events
Fuelit Nutrition
Broken Spoke Co-Op
Ritual Chocolate
Mike Devaney
Sarah Harries
Dave Dyer
Becci Curtis

As a result of your generosity, every penny of ticket sales and money raised is going directly to Helen & Douglas House.

Thanks also go to Dave Dyer, Jack Wilcock and Sam Elliot, our teacher trio who gave us a great quiz (who knew maths could be so much fun – I’ll never look at a graph in the same way again).

And chapeau to our watt bike challengers, particularly Kat Young for taking the women’s prize with a massive 916 watts and Andy Ruane with 1620 watts for the men’s. Special mention has to go to Pete Smith who knocked our very own one-man watt machine Mike Devaney down to third place! Many thanks to David Brown and Louise Brown from Stoke Mandeville Tri for bringing their Watt bike out for us to use and running the challenge so successfully!

We hope to make this an annual event and have lots of other exciting ideas in the pipeline to help raise awareness of this special charity and raise additional funds. Later in the year we will be running a ‘mini shop audax’ where Condors must ride round local Helen & Douglas charity shops, purchasing an item of clothing from each and wearing them for the duration of the ride. And near Christmas we’d like to organise a ‘muddy santas’ cyclocross ride! But our next event will be a fun filled ‘cream tea and cake’ affair led by Kristen Lovelock. It will be held on a farm down near Garsington and may feature welly wanging..! Stay tuned for more details coming soon!