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Saturday 8th September 2012
Churches are open all over Kent. There are sure to be some in your area which you will be very welcome to visit. Click here to see a full list. Then plan your own route to start and finish any time between 10am and 6pm. The Ride and Stride is open to Everyone In fact, the more people from outside church congregations that take part the more successful we shall be in raising interest in, and support for, our heritage of church buildings. Last year over £140,000 including gift aid was raised in Kent, with 741 churches and chapels involved. The ride started in Suffolk in 1982, and now 36 counties are taking part. Altogether over £29 million has been raised nationally. Details The Friends of Kent Churches Sponsored Ride and Stride takes place on the second Saturday in September each year. 50% of sponsorship money raised goes to the church or chapel of your choice, with the other 50% going to the Friends, who use it to help the most needy churches and chapels in use in the County. Ask your relations, friends and colleagues to sponsor you - so much per church or chapel visited between 10am and 6pm on the day. This is recorded on a special sponsor form. Please ask them to tick for Gift Aid if they are tax payers; this increases their donations by 28% with no cost to them. Since this is a national scheme, you can visit churches that are open in any county you like. People manning the churches can be sponsored too. T-shirts and polo shirts are available to purchase. Click here for an order form. Cyclists can purchase Bicycle Flags including pole and bracket for the ride as a fun way to show your support and raise awareness. Click here for an order form. Justgiving The Friends of Kent Churches have teamed up with the people at Justgiving.com to allow you to create online sponsorship forms. Simply create your sponsorship page and then Email the address of your page to everyone you know, here and abroad, and start collecting your sponsorship. Create your Sponsorship Form here: You can also collect a paper Sponsorship Form from an organiser at your own church, or you can download one by clicking here. On the Day The day arrives and you can 'clock in' at your first church from 10am onwards. You will have your sponsor form initialled with the name of the church and the time. A quick look around perhaps, and then off to the next church or chapel. As time goes by and you walkers become hotter, many churches offer a cooling drink. By 6pm the last keen participants will have signed the register, leaving many churches with over 50 names. After the Ride The riders and walkers present their sponsorship forms, now showing how many churches and chapels they have visited, to their sponsors, who reward them according to the undertaking made. The riders and walkers then give the forms and the money raised to their Local Organiser, who sends them to the Friends of Kent Churches Bike Ride Treasurer. He returns the half due to the church or chapel. The forms also act as an audit trail to enable the Treasurer to recover tax from the Inland Revenue under the Gift Aid scheme, which increases the amounts raised by 28%. For further information please contact (N.B. It is a condition of participation that, save to the extent required by law, the Friends of Kent Churches accept no liability in respect of death or injury sustained by any participant. Or damage to property. If a participant wishes to have insurance he/she must make their own arrangements). |
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