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GVA Grimley's Tinley Grabs A Cab To Timbuktu for LandAid! |
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 On 11 January 2008, as many surveyors across the UK recover from festive overindulgence and ease back in to the office, two boy racers will be departing Plymouth to take part in a rally to Timbuktu in order to raise funds for LandAid’s Foundations for Life project.
Described as the “wacky races meets scrapheap challenge”, the Plymouth-Dakar rally has, for five years, been the embarrassing poor relation of the bona-fide championship event, the Paris-Dakar Rally. For the potty Plymouth version, which raises funds for charity, performance vehicles are substituted for bashed-up bangers (which must be purchased for under £100) and the entourage of support teams and film crews are substituted for absolutely nothing, in the 3000 mile, 22 day scramble to Africa.
Into the event that sells itself as ‘painlessly disorganised’ will step Team Running AMOC, GVA Grimley Partner John Tinley and firm friend and fire sales engineer Roger Ashby. The team have traded in their regular outfit of motorcycle and sidecar for an aged London taxi and are hopeful that the hackney carriage, currently parked in a Berkshire cowshed, will face up to the challenge. After rest and re-fuel stops at Gibraltar, Marrakech and Agadir all surviving bangers will be flogged at the African finish line to benefit local charities in a sale that has raised over £100,000 to date. Funds raised by individual wacky racers will benefit charities of their choice, with Team Running AMOCs going directly to LandAid.
Commenting on the rally, John Tinley, partner at GVA Grimley said, “We’ve chosen LandAid as our charity of choice because of their continued work in supporting homeless people. We have a target of £20,000 and thanks to GVA Grimley’s support, we’re well on our way."
Please show your support for John, Roger and LandAid by making a donation on their JustGiving page. You can also see their fundraising progress.
LandAid would like to wish John and Roger the best of luck with their African adventure and express our gratitude at being chosen as their beneficiary!
For more information on Foundations for Life.
For more information on the team check out their blog. http://plymouthtotimbuktu.blogspot.com/
For more information on the raxce check out the Plymouth-Dakar website. http://www.plymouth-banjul.co.uk/
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