Ride and Stride Day

Saturday, 10th September, 2016.  10am-4pm.
 

The Historic Cheshire Churches Preservation Trust is encouraging people to raise money for your church and for Cheshire Churches and we invite you to work in partnership with ourselves on ‘Ride and Stride day’. There are three ways to do this:

• Participation  by walking, cycling or riding between as many churches as they can
• Opening  by welcoming ‘riders and striders’ to your church
• Run an event in tandem on this day to encourage visitors and maximise on fund raising. Ideas like a book sale, sale of work, art or history exhibition, games afternoon, cake stall, coffee morning, table top or car boot sale and jams and preserves sale. The only way to raise funds is by sponsorship and/ or selling so if you can’t Ride and Stride there are other ways of joining in. You can even hold sponsored sports like swimming, sponsored crafts like knitting or sponsored events like bell ringing or church sitting or even silences….always good with children! If that particular day is a problem, let us know you would like to hold something on another day and we will advertise it for you.

Walkers and riders are encouraged to go between churches of their choice and being sponsored to do so. This is a National Event and participants retain 50% of their money raised to give to the church of their choice, the remaining 50% coming to the trust. Many newspapers and magazines advertise the event and the celebrities that support it. Our figurehead is Bear Grills. This fund raising is essential to enable the HCCPT to help churches with grants to maintain their buildings and has resulted in over 100 churches in Cheshire receiving aid in the last ten years totalling £1million. Unless churches are willing to take part in fund raising, the work of the trust will end and some churches would already have been closed but for our support.  

The website www.hccpt.org has all the information you need with downloads of posters, participation forms and sponsorship forms. Any problems please contact  jh.headon@btinternet.com  and we request all sponsorship forms and cheques are returned to : Mr.Mike Caputo, 2 Hilliards Court, Chester Business Park, Chester, CH4 9PX.