Gordon Miller, Ride For Freedom Founder and 2x cycling Guinness World Record Holder, was the lead rider for the Ride For Freedom USA East Coast Cycling Tour 2022.
This ~1,500km #cycle between sports franchises:
✅Reinforced our #ShowARedCardcampaign that raises awareness of human/child trafficking in sport. The #USA Department of State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) 2020 Report notes “neither governments nor international sports federations or national sports leagues have successfully addressed the growing incidence of human trafficking of athletes”.
✅Fundraised (please donate) to support the development of our programme Freewheel by Ride For Freedom that gives bikes, accessories and cycling training to survivors of modern slavery to support their mental and physical health, independence and rehabilitation back into society.
✅Seeded a Freewheel by Ride For Freedom Hub on the East Coast of the USA as a legacy of the Tour. We have launched the first Freewheel Hub in Barking & Dagenham, London and are rolling out Hubs across the UK and internationally. Contact us to discuss the opportunities for collaboration.
- Date: Wednesday 5 October-Tuesday 18 October 2022, International Anti-Slavery Day
- Route: Washington DC-Charlotte-Washington DC
- Distance: approximately 1,500 kilometres
- Tour lead: Gordon Miller, Founder & Team Leader Ride For Freedom
- Engagement: sports franchises, companies, NGO’s and cycling clubs
- Media: video to document the Ride For Freedom, social media, press
Get Involved With Future Tours!
Corporate partnerships and sponsorships enable Ride For Freedom to deliver its mission. They underwrite the developmental, administrative, logistical and marketing costs associated with our cycling fundraising challenges and the delivery of our Freewheel remediation programme.
Contact us to discuss sponsoring future tours 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.
#ShowARedCard #RideForFreedom #EndModernSlavery
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 to provide remedy to survivors through its operational Freewheel programme.
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 our Freewheel programme 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.