We would like to congratulate Isabelle Carrad, an Early Years student here at North Kent College, who has completed a 60-mile bike ride for charity.
The ride raised money to support Sidcup Rugby Club’s charity work as well as the Wooden Spoon Charity, which is the children’s charity of rugby who fund life-changing projects that support children and young people with disabilities or living in disadvantage. The focus is to help children and young people through projects such as sensory rooms, playground and outdoor activities, health and wellbeing, and specialist equipment.
Isabelle said, ‘On the 4th of July you may recall torrential rain around South East London and Kent and you may have even thought something like, “I won’t be going out today”. However, at 8:30am me and a team of a few family and friends were at Dartford Valley Rugby Club starting our 60-mile bike ride for the Wooden Spoon charity. The Wooden Spoon is the children’s charity of rugby, it is an amazing organisation that changes the lives of children who live with the disadvantage of disabilities by funding projects. Though our ride we managed to raise £400, of which half goes to the Wooden Spoon charity and the other half goes to Sidcup Rugby Club in support of their charity work.
This ride is even more of an achievement as over the course of the ride my team and I managed to get 3 punctures between the five of us and three of us also managed to fall off our bikes, me included. I got thrown off my bike and skidded across the floor for a metre or two. But of course everything that happens just makes a ride more memorable and makes us even more proud of the money we raised. We managed to push through and complete the 60 mile ride and finish where we started, but this time we had ice creams in our hand.’
Well done Isabelle on this fantastic achievement and raising money for such an important cause!
If you would like to support Isabelle and the incredible charity work completed by The Wooden Spoon Charity and Sidcup Rugby Club, you can still donate by clicking here.
