Events

September 29th 2011 Lester Curnow, who with his wife Charlie runs the popular Otter Inn, Weston near Honiton in Devon, is cycling from John O’Groats to Lands End with Paul Sellick to raise money for the Baton, ably supported by David Pople.  This won’t be easy for Lester by any means as the time for [...]

September 24th & 25th 2011 Could you help make your city the first one to reach Afghanistan? For the DecAid Ride2Remember event, Cities will compete to cover the 3550 miles from London to Kabul on ten static bikes in ten city centres over one weekend. The bike ride will be the focus of the weekend [...]

19th – 21st September The Oxford University Air Squadron are rowing from Oxford to Westminster from Monday 19th September to Wednesday 21st September to raise money for SSAFA and BLESMA via DecAid. Half of the group have never been in a rowing coxed 8 before and this will be an amazing effort for them as [...]

ROYAL MARINES ROLLER SKI 1664 The Aim 19th – 30th September 2011 Our ski challenge should be complete in 10 days covering over 1000 miles or as the title describes, 1664 Km’s is being undertaken by 5 x Serving Royal Marine Mountain Leaders, W01 Ginge Booth, W02 Baz Gray, CSgt Steve Prosser, Sgt Gaz Richardson [...]

18th September 2011 The DecAid Big Tow will be a tri-service competition between the Navy, Army and RAF held at Rockingham Race Track.  The 10 teams will compete to tow army ambulances 10 times around the track. Each service will have three teams and three vehicles, including at least one service ambulance.  Teams will be [...]

September 18th 2011 Alan successfully ran the 2011 Great North Run Sunday 18th Sept, this year the runners enjoyed real squally weather, at times coming down in proverbial ‘stair rods’ Alan said that the atmosphere was fantastic, with in his view the best crowd support that he’s ever seen. At the half way point Alan [...]

September 16th 2011 Nigel (Bobby) Charlton and Steve (Snoppers) Worsnop 2 former Marines are going cycle from Overton to Duloe in one hit a total distance of 172 miles on September 16th.   They are hoping to complete the ride in 16 hrs and in time for Duloe Beer Festival which is on the 17th. The [...]

September 4th 2011 Alan ran the inaugural Maidenhead Half Marathon last Sunday4th carrying the Baton throughout and will definitely be there again next year. As well as talking to many other runners and organisers, Alan had the pleasure of meeting Councillor Asghar Majeed Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead, all were gracious enough to listen to [...]

August 13th 2011 The DecAid Stretched to the Limit event takes place on the 13th August 2011. 32 teams of 10 or 12 people will carry loaded stretchers along a 7 mile route up the highest mountain in Wales (3,560ft). There will be space for up to 32 teams to enter and EVERYONE over the age [...]

19th August – 30th September A small team consisting of Andy North, Dave Edwards & Mike Senior will be completing over 2,000 miles of running, cycling and kayaking for 6 weeks from Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire to Gibraltar.  For more information and how to support them please visit their website here. The team are completing [...]