It’s that time of year when amazing fundraising activities are kicking off and our wonderful Cemex employees push themselves to the limits to raise money for charities close to their hearts.
You can support their amazing efforts by please sponsoring them! Thank you.
Charlie’s March the Month for Prostate Cancer
Charlie Szasz, Cemex Readymix London & South Coast, is currently taking part in ‘March the Month’ for Prostate Cancer UK which requires him having to achieve 11,000 steps every day in the month of March. The target for his first week was 77,000 steps and he achieved 144,000. At the time of writing Charlie was currently at the end of week 3 and so far has hit almost 340,000 steps. His target is to raise £500.
Motivated by this activity, Charlie has now managed to run his first 10k this week and spotted a Cemex van on route who egged him on.
If you would like to support Charlie please click here: https://marchthemonth.prostatecanceruk.org/fundraising/march-the-month-11000-steps-a-day2024
Jane’s Marathon Run for Myton Hospice
Jane Walsh, Supply Chain Manager – Aggregates and Asphalt, was lucky enough to get a place to run in this year’s London Marathon on Sunday 23rd April.
Jane will be running to raise money for Myton Hospice in Rugby. Myton Hospices believe that everyone matters for every single moment of their life; they focus on enhancing life when cure is no longer an option. They are leaders in compassionate end of life care; their work centres on the patients and involving them in decisions about their care. Perhaps most importantly, giving people more quality time with their loved ones. Last year Myton supported more than 1,500 people and their families, in their three hospices, via patient and family support services, and in the community through Myton at Home.
If you would like to support Jane and Myton Hospice please click here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/jane-walsh-london-marathon
Good luck Jane!!
Richard’s Cycle4MND Charity Bike Ride
Gloucester RFC, Kingsholm Stadium Gloucester to Leicester Tigers RFC, Welford Road, Leicester
By Richard Boult.
Last year we shared how Richard Boult, Commercial Technical Manager, Commercial Cement, joined eight other cyclists to cycle from Leicester to Gloucester over two days to coincide with the Slater Cup. This year a larger and possibly crazier group of keen cyclists and Rugby fans have once again taken to the road to raise awareness and funds across three charities dedicated to Motor Neurone Disease; the MND Association, The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation and 4ED.
This year Richard, along with 26 other riders, consisting of a mixture of Gloucester and Tigers fans and ex-players and dignitaries including Pete Glanville, Freddy Tuilagi, Harry Roberts, Dean Ryan, Lee Fortey and Rob York plus support crew, left Gloucester accompanied by two police outriders at 8.00am on Friday 22nd March. They cycled the 88 miles to Leicester with the intention of arriving in Leicester in plenty of time for that evenings Slater Cup Match. With coverage on local radio in Gloucestershire and East Midlands throughout the day and appearances on local TV news channels the riders slogged their way through the lanes and hills of the Cotswolds and a surprisingly hilly northern section of the route briefly stopping at Broadway, Leamington Spa and Stretton under Fosse along the way for much needed food and refreshments. The riders regrouped around a mile away from the Mattioli Woods Welford Road stadium where all 27 rode in together, adorned in specially produced half and half shirts sponsored by The Seven Stars pub in Rugby, to rapturous applause from home and away fans alike.
During the build up to the game a team of charity bucket collectors were out in force collecting further funds to add to the haul brought in already by the JustGiving pages set up by organiser Mike Dixon. It’s amazing to report that at the time of writing the team have raised just short of an incredible £20,000 from the event which will be spread across the three beneficiary charities.
The team were photographed on the pitch at half time during the match in front of a packed Welford Road with Gloucester running out eventual 25-27 winners to take the cup back to Kingsholm.
Richard said: “It was a pleasure and honour to join the team to support the three charities that do so much to assist sufferers of this terrible debilitating disease and help raise awareness of it. Whilst there is currently no cure, the funds we have raised will go some way to helping the charities in their efforts in searching for one. £20,000 is a fantastic amount of money to raise and I didn’t think we’d ever raise anything like that amount! To steal a quote from our team leader and organiser Mike it just goes to show that ‘with greater awareness, comes amazing generosity’ and I can’t thank those people who’ve donated enough!”. Watch out for more cycling feats in the next year or so!
If you would like to contribute to the funds raised by the riders the links are below:
4Ed Fund:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/cycle4ed24
MND Association:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/mnda24
My Name’5 Doddie:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/cycle4doddie24