About Tour de Force

On 1st August 2009 Dominic Chambers, manager of the only national police children's charity Child Victims of Crime, Ronny Carey, Trustee and Matt Ferguson RFU tag rugby man began their epic journey to cycle to every police headquarters throughout England, Scotland & Wales. The support vehicle is driven by CVOC trustee Steve Johnson.

They are cycling to raise awareness of the charity and its valuable work with the added hope of raising significant funds through individual police forces holding fundraising events.

They are stopping off at each Force Headquarters en route for cheque presentations and press coverage.

If you would like further detailed information of the route and would like to join or sponsor them on a particular leg of the journey please contact info@cvoc.org.uk or phone 01785 227325.

The blog is being updated daily by CVOC trustee Trevor Koschalka.

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

End of Day 18


Today was a day of mechanical problems first off this morning Matt had a puncture then having repaired that the inner tube burst when we were pumping the tyre back up, so we then had to change the whole tyre and then later another puncture.
Having got around those problems we had three great receptions at Tayside Police HQ in Dundee, Fife Police HQ in Glenrothes and Lothian and Borders HQ in Edinburgh and it was wonderful that the three Chief Constables turned out to support us. After Edinburgh we pressed on south and we faced the next problem of the day - accommodation. It was after 9 o'clock before we managed to find a hotel and they then said they had closed the kitchen, luckily after a bit of persuasion they agreed to cook us some steaks. So all in all a bit of a testing day but we got there in the end.
Tomorrow we are back into England and heading for Newcastle and Durham.

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