Real Gap Experience
Thomson Sport’s sister company show their support for Sport Relief
Inspired by Christine Bleakley‘s Thomson Sport Relief Water Ski Challenge Tunbridge Wells based gap year company Real Gap will be rising to their own challenge, by swimming the equivalent of the breadth of the English Channel for Sport Relief.
Between the 29th March and the 1st April, Real Gap, a sister company of Thomson Sport, have set themselves the Real Gap Swimming the Channel Challenge! It will see a select group of swimmers cover 35,553 metres over 4 days – the same distance that Christine Bleakley water-skied for Sport Relief last week. Participants will be heading to their local pools across the 4 day period in an effort to raise £1000 for Sport Relief.
The Real Gap fundraising mission has already begun with staff showcasing their culinary prowess and taste in fashion with a ‘Get your kit on’ sports clothes day, an office Pancake Day and a bring-and-buy cake sale. They’ve so far managed to collect £200 for Sport Relief, and will also be calling on the people of Tunbridge Wells to assist in their fundraising efforts as they hit the high street on 20th March dressed in a variety of retro sports gear to collect donations from generous locals.
Real Gap Sport Relief Champion, Nicola Needham, said: ‘It’s great to see our Real Gap staff get behind Sport Relief with such enthusiasm. We offer many worthwhile volunteer projects all over the world and with Sport Relief helping those living unimaginably tough lives both here in the UK and across the world’s poorest countries, it provides us with a fantastic opportunity to offer support and help raise cash.’’
Real Gap has been working in association with volunteer organisations across the globe for a number of years, sending thousands of volunteers to assist with community, environmental and wildlife projects.
Sports enthusiasts can find out the latest about Real Gap’s fundraising mission by visiting the company’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/
Company profile:
Real Gap is the leading gap travel organiser offering a wide and diverse range of programmes. These include: - volunteering, conservation, adventure travel and expeditions, sports, teaching English, round the world, paid working holidays and learning.
Real Gap has expanded the original concept of “life-changing”
The Real Travel portfolio includes Real Gap and Gap Year for Grown Ups.
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About Thomson Sport
Thomson Sport www.thomsonsport.com is a unique collection of some of the most established sport’s travel & event brands in the world. Thomson Sport, part of the Activity Sector of TUI Travel PLC, delivers exceptional services and logistics to major worldwide sporting events. TUI Travel PLC is the world’s leading leisure travel company which is structured through four sectors: Mainstream, Specialist & Emerging Markets, Activity and Accommodation & Destinations.
About Sport Relief
As one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives. The Sport Relief Weekend takes place from Friday 19th March to Sunday 21st March 2010 including a night of Sport Relief telly on BBC One and the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile events across the UK on Sunday 21st March. All the cash raised by the public will help transform the lives of those living tough lives across the UK and the world’s poorest countries.
Since its launch in 2002, millions of people have taken part in Sport Relief, helping to raise over £80 million. Sport Relief has a unique history of dedicated people doing extraordinary things to rise to the challenge, from David Walliams’ astonishing swim across the English Channel to Eddie Izzard’s truly amazing marathon a day around the UK. Further information is available on www.sportrelief.com
Sport Relief is an initiative of Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England/Wales);
