30 cyclists will be cycling from the Eiffel Tower in Paris to the Blackpool Tower from Thursday 14 June to Monday 18 June 2012 in aid of Brainwave & Donna’s Dream House, two local Northwest Charities and also the international charity WaterAid.
'Brainwave' is a national charity with 3 centres in the UK. There Northern centre is at Birchwood, Warrington. They work with families to assist them in home based individual therapy and exercises to help children with development delay, brain injury or genetic conditions to achieve their full potential.
Brainwave effectively provides parents with self help through six monthly assessments where they work with parents on an exercise/therapy routine enabling parents to undertake this with their children on a daily basis. At its simplest this includes techniques for different muscle stretches and work on core muscle stability which has been very successful in mitigating the increased muscle tone and helping build core muscles, which in turn enables improved motor skill ability.
Donnas Dream House in Blackpool is a locally based trust providing free holiday experiences for the children and teenagers with life-threatening illnesses and their families, and for recently bereaved siblings and their families.
Whilst the voluntary team of Donna’s Dream House provides the expertise, enthusiasm and administration, it is the generosity of many companies, organisations and individuals in raising and donating money, that makes it possible to bring not only sunshine and fun into children’s lives but a sense of wonder, adventure, laughter and much-needed holiday in Blackpool for the whole family. They suffered an arson attack at the beginning of the New Year 2012.
WaterAid is supporting many opportunities in the worlds poorest country’s supplying clean water and effective sanitation and has a long established relationship with the water industry.
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