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We are pleased to announce the amount raised from the 2012 Ride of Honour.
The total amount raised so far is £7405.60 with a few donations still trickling in we hope to break the £7500 mark before we are finished!.
We can confirm that we had 607 bikes register and pay for the ride (including the few that registered on the day)
The Breakdown of Funds is as follows:
Total Income: Bike registrations, Merchandise Sales, Sponsorship and donations =£10,970.50
Total Expenditure: T-Shirts, Tags, Merchandise, Insurance, First Aid Cover, P&P, Printing & Promotional Material = £3564.90
Net funds to be distributed to the armed forces charities = £7405.60
This is a fantastic amount and thank you to each and every one of you that supported and contributed to the Ride of Honour.
A breakdown of how the funds are being allocated will follow in the next couple of days.
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The Ride of Honour organising team would like to say a very big thank you to everyone that took part in the Ride of Honour yesterday, despite the typical British weather, you all did a fantastic job to show your support for the brave men and women of our armed forces.
Keep an eye on this page as we release more information about the ride and what we raised, but for now please join us in thanking those that made the day possible.
- Catterick Garrison and Marne Barracks for hosting us.
- The Soldiers who gave their time to help man the gate and attend the event.
- The Mercian Regiment for providing the catering.
- Garrison FM for providing music.
- Squires Biker Cafe for their support.
- Washington Services for allowing the use of their truck stop.
- The Sun Inn for their support.
- Mr Pearman for allowing us to use his car park opposite the Racecourse.
- All the sponsors of the Ride of Honour.
- All the marshals for their assistance, from all three rides.
- All those who volunteered their time to help assist in making the day a success, there are too many to mention here, but you all know who you are and know that your help is very much appreciated.
- Finally a tremendous thanks to all you bikers & pillions, who came on the ride and supported this event.
We hope you all had an enjoyable day and look forward to seeing you again in 2013!.
If any of you took photos on the day and would like to share them on the Ride of Honour website you are more than welcome to leave a comment with a link to an online album others can use view you photos, or you can email them directly to us at photos@rideofhonour.co.uk and we will endeavour to create an album and give full credit for any photos sent.
Me and my family had a fantastic ride to the barracks.
The marshalling was superb a usual…..i felt proud to be british!!
Thank you all very much and see you next year.
Just got home after completing the ride. As a serving Soldier I was touched by the support everyone showed today. As a biker I thouroughly enjoyed the day and met some great people.
Many thanks for organising a brilliant day!!
Andrew.
What a great turnout yesterday despite the weather. Congratulations to all who organised and help run this event. A great ride and a great cause. I was proud to be a part of it. Roll on 2013
Great day, fantastic turn out and top organisation. Well done all involves in making it happen. Whens the next one???
Met some of my mates there,and noticed a lot of riders from various charity rides through Bikewise. As usual I had my grandson on the bike, he is only 8, but has been doing rides for 2 years.He thoroughly enjoyed the day,and the soldiers were great.I know he will be with me next year.Top event.
Excellent day.
Took my daughter along for her first proper pillion ride and other than a numb bum she loved it too!
Well done to all invloved, marshalls and organisers. I can think of the odd other bike Action Group who could learn a thing or two about organising such events!
Hopefully a very substantial sum was earned for such a derserving cause
What a great day well done for the organisers look forward to 2013.
Met some great people and got very wet going home.
Well done bikers one and all.
Fantastic day out, my lads and I had a great time. Congratulations to everyone involved in putting it together and we hope it raised at least as much as last year. Came back to Leeds via Richmond, Layburn and Ripon. Brilliant riding through the countryside. Where to next year…?
Attended and paid due respect as part of the Armed Forces Bikers Charity Riders.
All in all a very well marshalled and safe ride. We would have loved to have seen a short drill session or band display from 1 Mercian but we will live in hope for perhaps the next RoH.
Had a great day out & thanks to all who organised it , proud to be involved !
i went on the ride of honour 2012…and despite the rain we had a fantastic time, i would have enjoyed the thrill of it all even if it had snowed..can’t wait for next year to do it all again..it was nice to see the good people of catterick out supporting the event…a big thanks to the lads on the base for looking after the riders
Really enjoyed the ride on Saturday Despite the weather was glad to be apart of it. Great atmosphere at Squires cafe and at Catterick. Look forward to next year’s ride….