I am currently in training to bicycle more than 400 kilometers in three days on the Entoure Cycle Classic Grape Ride! This is part of an effort to raise funds for and bring a smile to seriously ill, disabled and disadvantaged kids. The Grape Ride has three fantastic beneficiaries – The Humour Foundation, The USyd Endocrinology & Diabetes Foundation and Riding for the Disabled - and they will receive 85% of the gross value of donations raised on a split basis. . 

The Humour Foundation (50%)

Did you know that global research has found that laughter has both physiological and psychological benefits to health and wellbeing? The Humour Foundation is a national charity founded in 1997 whose aim is to promote and deliver the health benefits of humour. Their core project is the Clown Doctors, who bring support, fun and laughter to sick and injured children in hospital right across Australia. More than 55 Clown Doctors brighten the lives of 135,000 people within the Hospital system each year and the funds raised by entoure will go support the Clown Doctors program and give kids in Hospital a reason to smile.

The University of Sydney, Endocrinology & Diabetes Foundation (30%)

The University of Sydney, Endocrinology & Diabetes Research Foundation  are conducting groundbreaking research in to how children and young adults can exercise with type 1 diabetes; an auto immune disease that usually strikes between 1 and 18 years of age, severely limiting a child's ability to live a normal, healthy and energized life. The research will give them the skills and information they need to exercise and stay healthy with Type 1 Diabetes.

Riding for the Disabled (20%)

Riding for the Disabled (RDA) gives kids with a disability much-improved self esteem and healing through the opportunity to ride gentle horses and enjoy all the activities connected with horse riding and bonding with animals. Funds raised from the Grape Ride will go to support the operational costs of the RDA Central Coast Branch and bring smiles to 100s of disabled kids each and every year.

How to help

Please help me give these kids a better life. Simply click on the donation button above and thank you for your generosity.

For more information about these great charities visit the entoure website here: www.entoure.com.au/charity/