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title: "Sponsored events – Summer 2007"
url: https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2007/06/13/sponsored-events-summer-2007/
description: "Consultant and fractional COO for scale-up businesses. I help founders, leaders and investors in scaling businesses create sustainably high performing organisations."
published: 2007-06-13T21:44:28+00:00
modified: 2026-04-11T16:25:15+00:00
author: Simon Wakeman
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# Sponsored events – Summer 2007

## Sponsored events – Summer 2007

I always like a challenge, whether it’s at work or in my spare time. This summer I’m doing two challenges in aid of charity:

-   17 June 2007 – **cycling 56 miles on the [London to Brighton bike ride](http://www.bhf.org.uk/events/index.asp?secID=12&secondlevel=1005&thirdlevel=1015)** – I did this ride for the first time last year and really enjoyed myself. It got me back into cycling and I’ve been riding most weeks since.
-   2 September 2007 – **running my first marathon in the [Kent Coastal Marathon](http://www.thanetroadrunners.org.uk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=43)** – I’ve done a couple of half-marathons but now it’s time for the full distance. A real challenge, both mentally and physically, but one I’m really looking forward to.

![London to Brighton bike ride 2006](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/305952643_c97e7b5286_m_d.jpg)

The charities that I am raising money for are:

-   [British Heart Foundation](http://www.bhf.org.uk) – a UK national charity supporting pioneering research, vital prevention activity and ensuring quality care and support for people living with heart disease.
-   [Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent](http://www.pilgrimshospice.org/) – a Kent charity that provides palliative care for patients and their families in East Kent. Founded in 1982, the hospices are raising money this year towards their 25th anniversary appeal.
-   Luke Pellant Memorial Fund – raising money for The Leukaemia Research Fund, Make-a-Wish Foundation and Diana Community Children’s Nursing team. The fund was set up in memory of Luke Pellant, son of a colleague of mine at [Medway Council](http://www.medway.gov.uk), who bravely fought leukaemia for three years but sadly lost his battle on 7 September 2003 aged 13.

If you would like to sponsor me and help me raise money for these good causes then you can do so online at [www.justgiving.com/simonwakeman](http://www.justgiving.com/simonwakeman). 

Thanks in advance for your support.