Fundraising

Florence to Nice - 2024 was a tough Tour thanks to route and weather. Heroes, every one of them! And a MASSIVE fundraising year too!

Bilbao Grand Depart, fantastic weather and our biggest fundraising year to date (over £550,000). A vintage year!

After 3 years and 2 missed tours (thanks to you know what), 2022 was our much-longed-for return to normal. But there's not much normal about a Copenhagen Grand Depart!

This will be the Tour that is remembered for just how tough the first half was. Huge amounts of climbing, long (regularly over 200km) days and temperatures that tipped 35 degrees, the opening stages made for a challenging first week…

With a stunning coastal Grand Depart, our first weekend of the Tour had a holiday feel, and temperatures that made that Atlantic look all the more welcoming – but we had some cycling to do!

Taking place on Monday 21st May, this was primarily a memorial for William and also marked 20 years since the William Wates Memorial Trust was formed.

The William Wates Memorial Trust Golf Day was another fabulous day of reuniting old friends and family in Will’s memory.

With the 2017 Grand Depart from Dusseldorf, the first stages of the Tour de France route took us into Belgium, through Luxembourg and into France.

Departing from the iconic Mont St Michel, the 2016 tour was dominated by the first week – the longest and highest stages for a first week of the tour in memory.