Team Tandemonium Take on 92 Mile Sponsored Cycling Challenge

We have been working hard over the past six months to ensure that our dream of a tandem group for visually impaired people becomes a reality. After lots of discussions, a sprinkling of meetings and lots of healthy debate, Tandemonium is almost ready to call itself open for business.

Our partner, Cheltenham Trust

However, there is still one obstacle to the project's success: money. Tandemonium currently has no money and without funds, it's difficult to get started. The team put their heads together and decided that it was time we did a spot of fundraising. We approached Leisure@ in Cheltenham and were fortunate enough to be offered the support of the Cheltenham Trust. With their instrumental support, our fundraising venture was born.

On Saturday 17 June, we will be cycling the distance of this year's penultimate leg of the Tour of Britain which is from Hemel Hempstead to Cheltenham. This means that we will be cycling 92 miles on spin bikes at Leisure@ in Cheltenham. The money raised will go towards funding a small fleet of tandems and buying the other essentials to getting our project up and running. Ed, Meg, Ines, Rob and Jayne have been training hard and are hoping to do this in under 5 hours. Anything you can do to promote our fundraiser would be great. Whether you share our fundraising page, spare a few pennies for the cause, volunteer to come and support us on the day or spread the word about our project, you're helping to ensure that people with limited vision can enjoy the freedom of cycling.

Check out our fundraising page at: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/tandemonium

The Cheltenham Festival of Cycling 2017