Management Consultants Raise £21K for Charity

14 July, 2008

A group of management consultants from the award winning programme and project management firm Moorhouse Consulting has raised over £21,000 for charity, with a sponsored ’Bike Run’ that saw them travel from Scotland to London in just forty eight hours.

The three teams of ten, who left Gretna on Friday 4th July, battled through the unpredictable summer elements - including heavy rain, high winds and some sunshine – to travel back to their base in London via Oxenholme, Huddersfield, Loughborough, and Leighton Buzzard. The effort raised funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSHCC), Sustainable Futures in Africa and The Alzheimer’s Society. 

Divided into three teams of five pairs, each pair spent roughly nine hours in action for one hour at a time, with one person cycling and the other running. 

The group smashed their previous fundraising target of £18K and arrived, tired yet victorious, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London on Sunday.  Team Ndejje – named after a town in Uganda where some of the funds raised will help build a new school - came in first at 11am on Sunday 6th July.  Team captain Tom Elvidge said they were thrilled with their achievement.

Tom said: “There was a fantastic team spirit out on the road, with the three teams geeing each other along, and we had a lot of fun along the way.  The weather tried its best to put us off course but we battled through to the end and are thrilled to raise this amount of money for three great charities.” 

Managing Director Dom Moorhouse said that after travelling from London to Cornwall in last year’s event, the team were determined to raise the bar in 2008.

Dom said: “It was a tough physical challenge involving over fifty participants and a traverse of the length of this country. The team did a great job both in the meticulous planning of the venture and its successful execution. The event is now becoming somewhat of a firm tradition and certainly one that brings out the best in our collective talents. Most importantly, however, it delivered for our chosen charities and we are tremendously grateful to all of our clients, friends and family for giving so generously in this regard. On the finish line, I had a “never again” moment but now the legs are recovering, thoughts are already turning to the design of next year’s event!”

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