Tag Archives: Charity

A Story About Giving

By Tom | Published: August 7, 2010
Last year Andy organ­ised a dona­tion of bicycles in India through the char­ity Wheels4Life. You can read about this story on his blog. If you haven’t heard of Wheels4Life, it’s a simple idea to provide bicycles to com­munit­ies in extreme poverty whose mem­bers have no other form of trans­port — between homes, schools, mar­kets, health­care facil­it­ies, [...]
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Get A Postcard From Outer Mongolia

By Tom | Published: May 7, 2010
When was the last time you got a post­card from Outer Mon­go­lia? Prob­ably a fair while ago, I’ll warrant. So here’s the deal. I’m try­ing to raise £1,000 for The Wil­der­ness Found­a­tion UK by — appro­pri­ately — mountain-biking just over 1,000 miles off-road across a big wil­der­ness area of Mongolia. I’ll send a post­card from [...]
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Cycling The Middle East And North Africa — A Photography Exhibition in Yerevan

By Tom | Published: March 9, 2010
While I real­ise that a great deal of my read­ers won’t be in Yerevan this Fri­day the 12th of March, I feel that it’s import­ant to put the word out about my first ever pho­to­graphy exhib­i­tion — or any kind of exhib­i­tion, for that matter. Thanks to the Armenian Centre for Con­tem­por­ary Exper­i­mental Art, forty [...]
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What You’ve Missed About Charity Bike Rides

By Tom | Published: October 3, 2009
There’s a back­lash hap­pen­ing against char­ity bike rides. I’m not sure why. For me, it’s a way of try­ing to give in a time when you often feel like you’re doing an awful lot of taking. Every couple of months sees the announce­ment of yet another heroic long-distance solo bicycle odys­sey, pit­ting man against the [...]
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Have Micro-Adventures For Better Weekends

By Tom | Published: August 7, 2009
I recently came across a new meme by way of Alastair Humphreys’ blog, which I’ve been read­ing reg­u­larly since I read his great travel books while pre­par­ing for Ride Earth. The idea of a ‘micro-adventure’ strikes a very rel­ev­ant chord in this post-ride phase. City life isn’t really my thing. Noise, pol­lu­tion and a feel­ing of [...]
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