Annual Sponsored Charity Bike Ride Update

We have now collected the remaining sponsor forms and along with some of the clubs committee members our chairman Haydn Evans has counted and verified the total amount that was raised from the annual Cefn Albion Football club bike ride that took place on Sunday 4th September . We are delighted to announce that the final total raised was a fantastic £1305 with £700 being kindly donated to this year’s chosen charity which was Wrexham Maelor Hospital’s Intensive care unit.

This year, Albion supporter and fellow ‘cefner’ Claire Evans approached Nick Jones, who is the main organiser for the popular event and asked if the club could donate some of the proceeds to Wrexham Maelors Intensive Care unit. I’m sure over the years we have all experienced or know someone who has experienced a time where we have utilised the fantastic services that the intensive care unit at the Maeler offers and for Claire this is no different. The unit and the staff there hold a special place in Claire’s heart after she was diagnosed with pneumonia and sepsis last year. Claire told the football club that she wanted to raise money in order to give something back to them after they saved her life. During her time at the intensive care unit she had a tracheostomy and was on life support to help her breathe, her condition was critical and her family were informed that the next twenty four hours were life threatening.

Thankfully through the equipment and care that Claire received she pulled through and continues to make a steady recovery following her unfortunate illness. Claire said ‘I wanted to raise money that will help contribute towards some vital equipment that could help save the lives of other people that may experience the same as what I went through’ She wanted us to give a special thank you to senior sister Sarah Anglesea who was fantastic and really supportive throughout her treatment.

Learning about Claire’s experience, of course Nicky agreed and he set about organising this year’s event, printing sponsor forms and advertising through posters, social media and the general word of mouth. The village of Cefn Mawr is a tight-knit community and on the day of the bike ride over 25 riders which included current players, management and supports turned up in fancy dress to take on the 20 mile all-round cycle from the Cefn Mawr community Social Club (the legion) in Cefn Mawr up to the Britannia Inn just past Llangollen. During the route we stopped in the Queens Hotel in Cefn Mawr before making our way to the Bridge End in Llangollen via the canal. Whilst in Llangollen we also visited the Bull and the Wynnstay before setting off to the chain bridge hotel and then the Brit. On the way home we stopped in the Abbey Grange hotel, the Sun Trevor and the Telford in Trevor before finishing back at the social club.

It was an enjoyable day which brought smiles to faces and created some great memories for all involved. We would like to thank all the people who bought fancy dress outfits and participated in the ride, the people who kindly sponsored those involved and the people and pubs (CMCSC, Queens, Bull, Wynnstay, the Chain bridge, Britannia, Abbey Grange, Sun Trevor & the Telford) on route who dug deep and donated via our collection boxes.

We shall look forward to next year’s charity event and we will be visiting all the pubs who kindly donated this year. A big Thank you to Nicky Jones and to everyone who made this year’s charity fancy dress ride a success! Roll on next year!!

Pictured: Nick Jones who is responsible for organising the charity bike ride

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