1,300km charity ride links local causes across England

Ten-day charity bike ride links 18 pension funds with local causes across England

Ewan McCulloch has cycled around 1,300km across England, with partner pension funds using the route to raise money for charities in their own communities.

Ewan McCulloch during the Tour de Partnership charity cycle Image: Welwyn Hatfield Times / Tour de PartnershipOriginal source

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A 1,300km bike ride across England has been used to connect 18 pension-fund areas with charities and community projects along the route.

Ewan McCulloch of Border to Coast Pensions began the ten-day Tour de Partnership at Carlisle Castle, travelling south through each partner fund area with more than 9,900 metres of climbing.

Local pension teams attached their own causes to the challenge, including children’s charities and the Watchtree Nature Reserve project in Cumbria. A corporate partnership could have been marked with a conference and some biscuits. Somebody instead chose 1,300 kilometres of hills, which has certainly made it harder to ignore.