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The Great Leg Race - People Have Raised Thousands!
PEOPLE POWER RAISES THOUSANDS AT CASTLE COMBE
The Great Leg Race charity marathon organised by Castle Combe circuit and the Rotary Club on Sunday July 4 was such a success that it could become a regular event.
Seven teams of volunteers raised more than £7,500 and this is expected to be considerably higher after final sponsorship pledges are totalled up.
The event was organised as part of the popular Wiltshire motorsport venue’s 60th diamond jubilee celebrations and volunteers were invited to take anything with wheels onto the circuit provided that it did not have an engine.
Staff at The Tavern Restaurant, the on-site caterers at Castle Combe circuit events, pushed shopping trolleys around the circuit and raised £250 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance, while Mike Rawlings and his team of circuit maintenance staff pushed a go-kart with no engine and disguised as an F1 racing car to benefit St John Ambulance who attend Castle Combe’s race meetings.
A forty-strong group from Chippenham raised more than £3000 with a sponsored pushchair push to raise funds for a Kenyan orphanage, a Swindon group pushed a Subaru car around the circuit for the Help For Heroes military charity, while Biddestone FC from Chippenham kicked a giant football to boost club funds.
Bristol electronics engineer Nick Tuftnell, who is partially sighted, and two colleagues raised more £1,500 from a sponsored unicycle ride to help research to cure a congenItal condition that threatens him and fellow sufferers with blindness.
Each team which took part pledged to try to raise £1,000 for their good cause and the £30 entry fee per team went to the Rotary Club for their Eradicate Polio campaign.
You can find further pictures of the event on our Facebook page
