Tomahawk Tour Cyclists donate over £6,000 to Foundation
Over £6,000 has been raised for the Exeter Foundation by a group of nine cyclists, who cycled approximately 300 miles around the borders of Devon.
The Tomahawk Tour raised a total of £12,271, which has been split between the Exeter Foundation and Exeter Youth Rugby.
Foundation XV member South West Communications Group (swcomms) played a major role in the Tomahawk Tour, which took place between the 3rd and 6th of September.
The company’s managing director Harry Langley helped organise the 300-mile event and two swcomms’ employees, Dave Maskill and Timm Sharples, were among the nine volunteer riders. The rest of the team was made up by parents of children in Exeter Youth Rugby.
Mr Langley said “We set our fundraising target at £10,000 to be split between the two charities, however, through all the hard work of the fundraisers – with the nine Tomahawk Tour cyclists and the children who took part in the family cycle ride on the last day of the Tour, we exceeded this figure quite significantly which is absolutely brilliant and more than we could have imagined!”.
The team took four days to cycle around the borders of Devon. The ride began at Sandy Park and followed the coastal route to Plymouth. Day two took the cyclists along the Tamar River to Barnstable while day three saw the team cross Exmoor and into Ilminster.
The last day started at 6.30am with the team riding into Exmouth for 11am where they were met by Exeter Youth Rugby members and their families to cycle the Exe Estuary Trail to the club’s new base at Oil Mill Lane.
swcomms was also a gold sponsor of the event along with Kelway. The platinum sponsors were Exeter Airport, Gulf Aviation, Premier Communication Electronics and Towergate Insurance.
Cyclists:
Dave Maskill
Timm Sharples
Adrian Williams
Neale Cartlidge
Jason Down
Simon Howard
Rob Graves
Stephen Wiltshire
Mark Dulling
