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Charity bike ride
May. 20th, 2009 01:04 pmRemember how I mentioned about training for a charity bike ride? Well, here's the charity bit.
It's a 65 mile ride from Senate House in Cambridge to SOAS in central London, on Sunday the 31st of May. I expect to be able to do it, but I expect not be feeling like cycling up the hill back home again afterwards, but that's all right because SOAS is so close to where I work I can go and lock my bike up there, on the basis that I possibly also won't feel like cycling on the Monday morning either. There were sixty-odd people doing the last one and there's probably more this time, and it's properly organised with signs and route cards so I probably won't even get lost.
It's in aid of CARA, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics. It's not a very big charity, and it has nothing at all to do with cute animals. It does grants for retraining refugee academics in the UK, and supports displaced academics in Iraq and the like. It's been going quite a long time, being started to help out academics fleeing the Nazis; Einstein was an early supporter.
If that sounds like something you could donate to, I've got a justgiving page:
http://www.justgiving.com/kathrynbikeride
Feel free not to, you know, but if ever you've considered buying me a pint, why not buy one for a displaced academic instead?
It's a 65 mile ride from Senate House in Cambridge to SOAS in central London, on Sunday the 31st of May. I expect to be able to do it, but I expect not be feeling like cycling up the hill back home again afterwards, but that's all right because SOAS is so close to where I work I can go and lock my bike up there, on the basis that I possibly also won't feel like cycling on the Monday morning either. There were sixty-odd people doing the last one and there's probably more this time, and it's properly organised with signs and route cards so I probably won't even get lost.
It's in aid of CARA, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics. It's not a very big charity, and it has nothing at all to do with cute animals. It does grants for retraining refugee academics in the UK, and supports displaced academics in Iraq and the like. It's been going quite a long time, being started to help out academics fleeing the Nazis; Einstein was an early supporter.
If that sounds like something you could donate to, I've got a justgiving page:
http://www.justgiving.com/kathrynbikeride
Feel free not to, you know, but if ever you've considered buying me a pint, why not buy one for a displaced academic instead?