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Introducing for 2011

The East Coast Truckers' Holiday Home

Photo: An example of the ECT unit. Not the actual holiday home.

From Spring 2011 East Coast Truckers' Charity will be offering holidays for disabled and otherwise disadvantaged children in their brand new Holiday Home as depicted above.

The unit sleeps 6 and is fully adapted for wheelchair users of all ages with widened doorways and access ramp and is equipped to a high standard with a full kitchen, disabled adapted toilet & shower room and Freeview TV. It has everything you need for a great holiday except for bed linen and towels which must be provided by the user.

The holiday package includes complimentary membership of the Owners Elite Club which entitles our customers to the use of all the facilities for the children and adults alike.

The unit is located at California Cliff's Holiday Park , Scratby, which is just north of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk . The park has the benefit of an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, well-equipped playground as well as “Sparky's Krew” club for the children. The Park staff are well-trained and fully-qualified in first aid and the management of “special children”. For the adults there is an attractive restaurant, bar and club which provides a wealth of entertainment throughout the season. On site facilities include shop, launderette etc. and other shops and a pub are nearby. A public bus service stops outside the gate and the beach is just a short walk away.

Holidays in our Home are allocated by our child liaison team so, before you can apply for details etc., you must ensure that your child is on our database.

 

If you need to do this either fill out the nomination form on line at www.eastcoasttruckers.org or write for an application form to East Coast Truckers' Charity, Freepost P.O. Box 56, Attleborough, Norfolk NR17 2WT.

 

Full details will be available early in 2011 and everyone on the database will be notified with everything they need to know including terms and conditions. We feel that this holiday opportunity will be very popular so when we are able to start taking bookings these will be on a first come first served basis.

 

 

 

 

Charity cycle ride from John O’ Groats to Lands End

A group of intrepid friends are in training for a gruelling cycle ride which will see them pedal from John O’Groats to Lands End in July 2010. The money raised will be given to The East Coast Truckers’ Children’s Charity to help fund the children’s convoy. One hundred trucks will take part this year on August 29th which is the Convoy’s silver jubilee event. Each truck carries a special child in the passenger seat and leaves County Hall, Norwich at 10 am for a day at Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park near Lowestoft. The journey home back to Norwich encompasses the Golden Mile on Great Yarmouth’s seafront at 6pm. It is always quite a spectacle. Seeing really is believing; the World’s largest and longest running children’s convoy.
Photographed on March 28th 2010 at DHL’s Thetford depot are Bob Hannam, a hypnotherapist; Richard Rogers who at 63 is the most senior cyclist and semi-retired and Vince Butler who drives for Paul Arthurton at Attleborough. The other three are employed by global logistics experts DHL at their Thetford depot; John Hughson, David Connett and Neil Lake who at 39 is the youngest of the team. You could argue David has the most important role following the cyclists in the back up minibus. The ensemble will leave John O’Groats on Friday July 16th. The schedule should see them in Lands End on Saturday 24th July; a thousand mile journey in 9 days. That equates to an exhausting average of just over 110 miles a day! Vince, Bob and Richard are not strangers to the route having already done it in 2008 when they raised over £10,000 for Chapel Road Special Needs School in Attleborough. When asked why he was doing it John replied that if he didn’t Vince told him he would break his legs! Old friends from the days they drove together with Securicor Omega Logistics, they are both members of the East Coast Truckers’ Charity. They both enjoy doing the convoy so much they decided they wanted to give something back. They would like to thank DHL at Thetford who are paying for all the minibus’s diesel and some cycle jerseys. Also thanks to haulier Paul Arthurton who is helping to pay for the minibus hire. 
If anybody would like to donate to the fund there is a website: www.milesmakesmiles.co.uk
I was proud to be asked along to take some photographs and write a short press release to help promote what the guys are doing. I hope the weather is kind to you all and I thank you on behalf of the East Coast Truckers for supporting our charity. I hope you are all stocking up with Deep Heat. Good luck. Safe journey.
Simon Waspe. Secretary. ECTC. 28th March 2010

Web Site Not Gone Live Yet Should Be Up And Running Soon: www.milesmakesmiles.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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