21st February 2008. Steve and Simon were at the NEC in Birmingham for the MODA Footwear show supporting our sponsor Moshulu Shoes last weekend. Entries to the 'Guess the Mileage - Win the Bike' competition raised more than £600 pounds during the three days of the show as a bonus!
4th February 2008. Check out our new page under the 'About Us' tab called 'Roadshow dates'. We will put all the dates as they are confirmed for wherever we are going to be through the Spring and Summer of 2008. We look forward to seeing you all!
20th January 2008. We will be supporting one of our biggest sponsors, Moshulu Colours, at the MODA Footwear Show at the NEC from 17th - 19th February 2008. Simon and Steve will both be on the stand with our Guess the Mileage - Win the bike!' machine RE07 HMG promoting the ride and looking to raise as much cash as we can from the show's visitors.
10th January 2008. Happy New Year to one and all! If you are local to Staffordshire, our home base, then pick up a copy of the Staffordshire Newsletter as we have made the papers for the first time! Thanks to Lizz Pegg who wrote the article. Lets hope that the papers readers put their hands in their pockets and use the link to our www.JustGiving.com webpage!
17th December 2007 - Our competition 'Guess the mileage - Win the bike!' was launched at Trentham Gardens on Saturday as the drive to raise as much money as possible started for Trentham to Arusha! More details to follow in the next couple of days, plus how to enter via Justgiving.com
16th December 2007 - we now have our first bike back from Overland Solutions... and it looks fantastic. Ernie has done a great job! Have a look at the Gallery for some photo's of the bike. No doubt about it - if you need some quality overland panniers and fittings, Ernie is the man!!
8th December 2007 - We have now confirmed with Ernie at Overland that we will pick up RE07 HMG from him, fully Africa ready, on Friday 14th 2007. Fund-raising will begin on Saturday 15th at Trentham Gardens - which will also see the start of the 'Guess the mileage - Win the bike!' competition. For just a small donation, minimum of £1, you have the chance of winning RE07 HMG to keep as yours when we get back from the trip. If you fancy a go - pop down and see us!
20th November 2007 - All being well we will launch the 'Guess the mileage - win the bike!' competition at Trentham Gardens, Stoke on Trent on 2nd DEcember 2007. We should have RE07 HMG back from Overland Solutions and will have the bike on site for the launch. Just a minimum £1 donation gets you a chance to win RE07HMG when we get back from Tanzania! See you there!
17th November 2007 - RE07HMG was delivered to Overland Solutions today for modification to 'Africa' standard. Hopefully she will be ready for us to collect from Ernie by December 1st as fund-raising begins on 2nd December with our first public appearance at Trentham Retail Village at the Trentham estate. If you want to see the sort of thing Ernie at Overland is doing for us have a look at his website www.overland-solutions.com. For more details of the Trentham Estate have a look on our 'sponsors' page and follow the links!
16th November 2007 - we picked up our first F650GS from the BMW Off Road Skills Centre today! RE07HMG is our first 'bike and will be the prize in our 'Guess the mileage and win the 'bike' promotion. See our gallery page for pictures of Simon Pavey shaking hands with Steve Bayley and handing over the keys to RE07HMG! It was a real priviledge to spend some time talking with Simon Pavey. For a man who has pretty much done it all as far as off-roading is concerned including the Paris-Dakar on several occasions and the famed 'Race to Dakar' with Charlie Boorman he was amazingly down to earth and unassuming - what a gent. Simon runs the Off Road Skills courses and centre for BMW - see www.worldofbmw.com of www.offroadskills.com for details.
13th November 2007 - We have confirmed the collection of our first bike from BMW for this Friday 16th. Pictures to follow on the pick up and the delvery to Overland Solutions on the 17th!
8th November 2007 - BMW have now confirmed the collection date for our first bike! This ensures that we hit the 17th November for the bike going into Overland Solutions! Our thanks to BMW for matching the commitments with actions!
6th November 2007 - Thanks to Cambrian Tyres and our good friend Carol Venables who put us in touch. Cambrian are supporting Trentham to Arusha by supplying us with Continental TKC80 knobbly tyres at cost! This compliments the support already offered by Michelin who will be supplying the tyres for the 'on-road' portion of the trip at cost also! Every penny we can reduce our costs by means even more money for the good causes we are supporting. All costs are already covered by our sponsors but if we can raise sponsorship exceeding our costs we can simply use the extra to supplement peoples donations! Each generous offer of support like that by Cambrian Tyres here helps us in our fund-raising task!
3rd November 2007 - The date for delivery of our first bike into Overland Solutions has gone back from 10th to 17th November 2007. Having said that we are excited by the prospect of picking up our first bike from our sponsor BMW GB in the next few days in good time to get it down to Overland. We will get pictures onto the site as soon as we collect it and also from Overland when we drop it off on the 17th. This bike will form the visual backdrop for the start of our fund-raising efforts in the run up to Christmas 2007.
8th October 2007 - We now have a date for the first of our 2 BMW F650 bikes going into Overland-Solutions to bring them up to spec' for the trip to Arusha. The 10th November 2007! This will inlclude hard luggage, additional fuel and water supplies, additional guarding under the bike and so on. More details to follow on the 'About Us' page of this website. We plan to use this first bike within the fundraising scheduled for the run up to Christmas 2007. Check out Overland-Solutions at:
3rd October 2007 - Trentham to Arusha bank accounts are now in place and free of charges thaks to the support of Nat West Bank plc. We can now acept donations and every single penny of donations received will be distributed amongst the charities we support!
24th September 2007. - Trentham to Arusha's page on www.justgiving.com is launched allowing anyone to donate to the Trentham to Arusha appeal on-line. Justgiving.com provides a safe and secure way to donate and also delivers UK gift aid tax relief as well! Have a look at : www.justgiving.com/trenthamtoarusha
13th September 2007. - Yeomans Outdoors have agreed to support 'Trentham to Arusha' by supplying tents, sleeping bags and other camping equipment. We are delighted to have the support of what is one of the UK's premier outdoor and camping stores as well as one of the Uk's fastest growing retailers! If you want to know more about Yeomans or need to buy anything for the outdoors please visit www.yeomansoutdoors.co.uk
12th September 2007. - P & O Ferries, perhaps the leading ferry brand, have agreed to support Trentham to Arusha by providing free transport for both bikes and riders when they leave the UK for continental europe in September 2008. We are delighted that another premier brand and business have joined with us to make Tranetham to Arusha a fund-raising success.
11th September 2007. - 'Trentham to Arusha' website is launched, albeit only 60% complete to begin the publicity drive for the ride to support our fund-raising efforts and provide the promotional visibility for our sponsors.
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