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Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride

Logo for the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride 2008, sponsored by BootsThe 2008 Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride sponsored by Boots is scheduled to take place on Sunday 22 June 2008.
The ride is open to people of all ages and abilities and riders are encouraged to raise sponsorship while they ride. Riders who raise over £50 sponsorship will be entered into a prize draw and you can download your sponsorship form [PDF 110KB] pdf logo here. Alternatively use online fundraising it’s simple, fast and totally secure!
To set up your Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride online sponsorship page visit www.justgiving.co.uk and select Rainbows Children’s Hospice – you can then select the GNBR as your chosen event. All monies raised through your online page will go to the GNBR charities. It is also the most efficient way to collect your sponsor monies, the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride Charities will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28p in every £1.00 will be added to your gift at no cost to you.
There are four different types of rides all of which start and finish at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont:
  • 100 mile ride - a sportive route for the more serious cyclist that will take in North Nottinghamshire and parts of Sherwood Forest and costs £24 per person
  • 50 mile ride - a challenge ride that goes to Newark before looping back to Holme Pierrepont and costs £10 per person
  • 18 mile ride - a community ride that goes to Shelford before looping back to Holme Pierrepont and costs £10 per person
  • Lap challenge - a ride for young cyclists on a closed circuit around Holme Pierrepont and costs £12 per family.
Freeth Cartwright logoThere is also the Freeth Cartwright corporate challenge for businesses. Organisations are encouraged to enter a team of five into either the 18 or 50 mile ride. The aim is to raise at least £50,000 for the Great Notts Bike Ride's five nominated charities, with the top fundraising business taking the corporate challenge title. For more information, or to enter a team, contact Marie Quinn at Freeth Cartwright on tel: 0115 934 3917, or visit www.freethcartwright.co.uk/GNBR-2008.
Apply to enter this year's Bike Ride. The closing date for applications is 13 June 2008.
More detailed information about the routes is available online soon and will be included in your rider pack. Rider packs will be sent out to entrants from the week beginning 1 May 2008.
If you would like more information about the bike ride please tel: 08449 80 80 80 or e-mail: bikeride@nottscc.gov.uk

Application form
Apply and pay online for the Bike Ride
View FAQs about paying online (link will open a new browser window)
or
Download a Bike Ride entry form [PDF 621 KB]. Print it out, fill it in and return with payment to:
GNBR Registration
Nottinghamshire County Council
PO Box 9320

Nottingham
NG15 5BL
or tel: 08449 80 80 80 for an entry form
Sponsorship
Download a sponsorship form [PDF 110KB] pdf logo.  Alternatively use online Fundraising it’s simple, fast and totally secure!
To set up your Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride on-line sponsorship page visit www.justgiving.co.uk and select Rainbows Children’s Hospice – you can then select the GNBR as your chosen event.  All monies raised through your online page will go to the GNBR charities.  It is also the most efficient way to collect your sponsor monies, the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride Charities will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28p in every £1.00 will be added to your gift at no cost to you.
Prizes for the most sponsorship raised!  If you raise more than £50 in sponsorship for our charities your name will be entered into a prize draw.
Your sponsorship form and cheque ( made payable to G.N.B.R.) should be sent to:
Rainbows Children's Hospice
Lark Rise
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 2HS
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