A dairy farmer is getting on his bike for charity.
Royal Highland and Education Trust (RHET) chairman Alistair Marshall will cycle around Scotland in June to raise money and awareness of the charity’s work to connect young people with farming and the working countryside.
Mr Marshall has been chairman of the charity since 2021 and will be wheeling through each of the 13 RHET Countryside Initiative areas – and hopes his Chairman’s Challenge will raise at least £10,000 to support the charity in providing free educational activities.
Alistair, from Carrutherstown, will be joined by RHET volunteers along the way.
He said: “I’m immensely proud of the work RHET does. Each year makes it possible for 70,000 children to visit a working farm or benefit from a classroom activity focussed on food and farming. But, like a lot of charities and businesses, the pandemic hit hard. This challenge is one way to help raise money to ensure we can continue to take the classroom to the countryside.
“We will also be joined by the RHET sheep, which will be decorated by school children and sit alongside the RHASS Flock to the Show art display at the Royal Highland Show.
There are opportunities for organisations to throw their support behind the initiative, including different sponsorship packages with sponsors’ logos featured on the RHET support vehicle in the Challenge entourage.”
The challenge will start in the Lothians on June 13 with Alistair cycling to schools in the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumbarton, Lomond and Renfrew, Argyll and Bute, Forth Valley, Clyde, Highlands, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Perth & Kinross and Fife before finishing at the Royal Highland Show on June 22.
To sponsor or support him, visit www.justgiving.com/campaign/RHET-ChairmansCycleChallenge
