Delighted to announce we’re dedicating the ride to the Ukrainian people and in support of the international humanitarian response by donating £10 per person to the Red Cross for everyone who completes the ride in-person.
🇺🇦 💙💛 #StandWithUkraine
To mark the UN International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
Gordon Miller, Ride For Freedom Founder & Team Leader and 2x cycling Guinness World Records Title Holder, invites you to join him and representatives of Liverpool FC Foundation and Burnley FC in the Community on a cycle between Burnley FC and Liverpool FC.
The significance of the day is the UN’s recognition of the role sport plays in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, it identifies that sport can play an active role in supporting the objective SDG Target 8.7^ through partnerships, education and awareness, which are three of Ride For Freedom’s key metrics. Remediation being the fourth which is delivered through our Freewheel by Ride For Freedom programme that empowers survivors of modern slavery to cycle.
- Date: Wednesday, 6 April 2022
- Start: 8.30am for a 9am depart from Turf Moor, Burnley FC
- Finish: ~5pm, Anfield, Liverpool FC
- Route: Burnley to Liverpool via Chorley
- Distance: approximately 60 miles, 100 kilometres
- Engagement: representatives of Liverpool FC and Burnley FC Foundations will cycle the route along with Gordon Miller
- Invitation: pitch-side welcome, photos & breakfast rolls at Burnley FC; pitch-side photos & farewell at Liverpool FC
- Participation: There are ONLY 10 places open for cyclists to join the ride on a first come, first serve basis N.b. This is a social cycle not a race (average speed ~14mph). Participants are invited to fundraise* to support Freewheel by Freewheel by Ride For Freedom that empowers survivors of modern slavery to cycle.
Register your interest to participate in-person (closing date 31 March 2022)
Special offer!
Participate and when you complete the challenge you’ll get a bundle worth up to £50 from Sustainable Performance Sportswear – Presca Sportswear and Tribal Active Natural Real-food Sports Nutrition
These offers apply whether you participate in person or virtually when you register at Compete Impossible: https://competeimpossible.com/link/hEBei6cVjcqvmMEbA
*A maximum of 10 participants are invited to fundraise (minimum fundraise of £100. You can choose to raise this amount or make as a donation to this sum as you wish).
Support Ride For Freedom
Corporate partnerships and sponsorships enable Ride For Freedom to achieve its aims and objectives. They underwrite the developmental, administrative, logistical and marketing costs associated with the 2022 cycling challenges and the Freewheel remediation programme.
Contact us to discuss sponsoring the Ride For Freedom North West England Social Cycle that will support our SDG 8.7 aligned mission to raise awareness, educate and forge partnerships to end modern slavery, and to provide remedy to survivors through its operational Freewheel programme.
#RideForFreedomSocialCycle
#RideForFreedom2022
#EndModernSlavery
^The SDG Objective Target 8.7 call is to “take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour”.
About Ride For Freedom
Ride For Freedom’s SDG 8.7 aligned mission is to harness the universal appeal of cycling to raise awareness, educate and forge partnerships to end modern slavery and provide remedy to survivors.
Ride For Freedom achieves its mission by creating and leading unique cycling challenges and events and by partnering with high impact sports clubs, companies and aligned charities.
The cycling challenges fundraise to support the development of Freewheel by Ride For Freedom that empowers survivors of modern slavery to cycle.
The intended outcomes are that survivors will gain additional independence and mobility, and improved mental and physical health and wellbeing.
Please donate to make a difference to their lives at https://tinyurl.com/99s9e4uu