Headspace fundraiser site link

to donate money please go to http://www.cycle4life.com.au

Cycle4Life bool boyz Ride Again

The wheels are in motion for the 2015 Cycle4life team to take on yet another inspiring challenge. The team consists of 4 riders launching from Sydney headspace to pass through 5 other headspace centres and arrive in Noosa in 6 days. The Ride for headspace will be on June 20 – 26, 2015.

The Ride raises awareness of youth mental health and suicide. All funds raised will go to headspace to further the work they do in early detection and intervention around mental illness in young people from 12-25. The funds will allow youth suicide prevention and other mental health awareness and treatment work to continue for young Australians throughout the country.

This team of mediocre bike riders love a challenge and in the past have raised significant funds to help those fighting cancer. This year due to the ever present and prevalent rates of mental illness and youth suicide some of the team are taking this journey for very personal and heart wrentching reasons.

Whilst raising money is vital to support the work of headspace its equally important to raise awareness that these services are out there specifically for youth. The Cycle4Life team hope to raise awareness and bring a spotlight to each of the headspace centres on their journey.

One of the team is from Warrnambool a small country town in Victoria and he is hoping to convince his friend to join him in riding through Victoria via the rural centres to reach Sydney in time for the start of the whole team ride.

Sydney to Noosa is 1108kms. The ride from Warrnambool to Sydney will likely be 1137kms.

The ride will intentionally take them through smaller rural and regional centres where resources are limited. Headspace themselves recognise the need to reach isolated areas and have a fantastic service called eheadspace that allows young people to engage with a counsellor over the net.

Lets hope these men have good seats on their bikes and muscles in the legs as its going to be an epic adventure.

 

Thank You

Thank you One and All

Jason Hill and Mark Powell (Cycle4Life – Adelaide to Melbourne) would like to sincerely thank all the people and businesses for helping us to raise the funds required to purchase 4 oxygen concentrators for South West Health palliative care and make a considerable donation to Peters Project. We raised a total value of $13250.00 for palliative care SWH, and $7741.00 for Peter’s Project. We also had enough to give $500.00 towards the amazing staff at ward 3 to purchase a Wii for the kids ward in honour of Leila Chow an amazing little girl.

Ride updates

Hi all,
This post is where i will try and update after each days ride in the comments section. Please feel free to post replies. Fingers crossed it all goes OK. Thanks to everyone for their kind comments and words of support as well the incredible amount of donations to date.

Unfortunately I have not been able to get to the internet as i was hoping but daily updates are on this link CLICK HERE

Oxygen Concentrator

Hi all,
You may be wondering what the oxygen concentrators look like. Here is the link to the brochures for the "Free style" oxygen concentrator http://www.wymedical.com.au/docs/freestyle_brochure_10-05.pdf. The company that supplies South West Health is called WyMedical and they have agreed to do a deal for reduced purchase price as part of our ride if we agree to carry one of these machines. They are very portable as you can see and don't weigh very much at all. Probably equivalent to a couple of drink bottles. Thanks very much to Peter Bavistock from WyMedical for his support of our goal to purchase these Oxygen Concentrators.

Dinner at Images 8th Sept

Hello everyone,
We are arriving in Warrnambool on our way to Melbourne on the 8th September. We are having a dinner commencing 6-6.30pm at IMAGES restaurant on Liebig street. Mick at IMAGES will donate $10.00 from each meal as well we are hoping to have an auction. If you know anyone in business who might donate some auction items let us know. We hope to see you there. To book please Phone: 55624208 IMAGES restaurant no later than one day before to allow for catering purposes

Breakfast at Hilly's

Hi all,
Just letting you know we had a tremendously successful breakfast thanks especially to Jim Kizan (master chef) who kept us all in order and our families for all their tireless work on the day. A big thanks to our sponsors not in any particular order
Mateiras, Rebecca's Cafe, Country Life, Swintons, Dave Gaw mobile espresso, Warrnambool Telephone Company, Warrnmabool Cheese & Butter, Mt Napier Wines, Athletes Foot, Clark Smock, and Images restaurant
We also had some personal donations of prizes for the raffle and auction from Anthony Gleeson, Jason Hill and Jodi Radley