providing homes - giving hope
Jordan with support worker Anne
Jordan recently appeared on Kay Crewdson’s Breakfast Show on BBC Radio York to tell his story of recovery, rehabilitation and salvation after moving into a Restore house.
His interview was broadcast just before the Chase the Sun relay. Please listen to his story and then make your donation to support the runners, the charity but most of all the people, like Jordan, who need somewhere to live and someone to turn their lives around. [Read more…]
The sun is in training for our major fundraiser – Chase the Sun. Have you noticed how early he’s getting up and how late he goes to bed this month. By the time we get to Chase the Sun on Midsummer’s Day, June 24th, he’ll rise in Bridlington at 4.28am.
The first runner sets off from Bridlington at about 4.30am. The last one arrives in Morecambe at about 9.30pm. In between, participants will run anything between 1 and 20km taking turns along the route that goes across the Yorkshire Wolds, Vale of York, Ripon, Nidderdale, Grassington, Wharfedale, Settle, Lune Valley, and Lancaster.
The route of Chase The Sun from Bridlington to Morecambe
The event is open to runners of all abilities with various options. [Read more…]
Chase the Sun is back!
A year ago Jonny Wooldridge first floated the idea of a relay race that would start in Bridlington at sunrise and reach the west coast by sunset. “Can’t be done” – said the naysayers (some of them seasoned athletes!) So on the longest day we tried it out. 30 runners took part and the last cohort arrived on the coast near Morecambe with 41 minutes to spare. Jonny was right. It could be done. So this year we’re doing it again, and it’s bigger than ever.
Luke Smith striding across the Wolds in 2016
So could you join in? If you have the legs and can aim to raise £500 in sponsorship we want to hear from you. You can choose your distance and pound out the miles on mid-summers day, Saturday June 24th, to raise money to house homeless people in York.
Can you promote it and display a flyer, or hand out a dozen, you can help us.
If you have never run before, it’s not to late to train. Our Chairman, Barrie, took up the Couch to 5k challenge to be able to Chase the Sun in 2017. Now he’s ready and keeping up his fitness on the York Parkrun most Saturdays. You could join him.
Chase the Sun is an exciting and challenging event and you could be part of it. To register your interest or find out more call Jonny Wooldridge on 07999 581999 or email him jonny.wooldridge@restoreyork.co.uk
Restore Chairman, Barrie Stephenson, gladly accepting a donation from York Ebor & County Round Table
We love cheque presentations, especially when they are this large. The York Ebor and County Round Table presented Restore with a donation of £5,000 at the Theatre Royal as they were preparing for their fund raising event for the final dress rehearsal of the Panto, Cinderella. Their efforts for charity go on throughout the year which allows them to generously support organisations like ours. Thank you guys.
But you don’t have to sign up to support us with big cheques. If you can only make a few pounds a month as a regular donation, we are equally pleased. Your donation will make a big difference in the life of one of the people who live in a Restore house. [Read more…]
Jenni and Becki in training
The Yorkshire Marathon on the 7th October has become a Morathon for Restore. A host of runners (well more than one) are lining up to take part in the Corporate Marathon where they will complete the 26 miles in a relay to raise funds.
This year we are opening our eighth house making room for thirty one people who used to be homeless to have somewhere to live. This has meant adding a new member of staff too. [Read more…]
Can you help us? After our epic relay run Chasing the Sun from Bridlington to Morecambe, we’re left asking the question: “Where we the first to organise and successfully complete this course on foot?”
Runners and Support at the Yorkshire-Lancashire border
On one of the longest days of the year, June 18th, about 20 runners successfully raced the sun from the east coast to the west and won. They were doing it to raise funds for Restore. The run was the brainchild of our Development Officer, Jonny Wooldridge. He believed it could be done despite a number of detractors who said they’d done the maths and it just wasn’t possible. [Read more…]
Runners for Restore beat the sun to the west coast in their Chasing the Sun Challenge raising over a thousand pounds to provide homes for homeless people in York.
Leaving Bridlington beach just before 4.30am at sunrise, the first of 20 runners began a relay with the target of reaching the Lancashire Coast before the sun set over the Irish Sea 130 miles away.
A vicar dressed as Superman will set off from Bridlington beach at sunrise Chasing the Sun in a charity relay race to reach Morecambe by sunset. 30 runners will take turns to eat up the 130 miles between the coasts of Yorkshire and Lancashire on Saturday 18th June 2016 to raise funds for the housing charity Restore.
Talking in Malton, Castle Howard, Easingwold, Boroughbridge, Ripon, Pateley Bridge, Grassington, Malham Tarn, Settle before arriving in Lancaster and finally Morecambe at 9.30pm.
Track them here:- http://live.opentracking.co.uk/restoreyork16/
Gary, Jonny and Ed training to Chase the Sun
Among the runners are some of our tenants who until recently were homeless until they were offered a home by Restore. To sponsor them click here [Read more…]
A dream or an impossible challenge? We’re not asking you to pack up your job to move to some exotic hotspot, but simply to join in a run across the country on one of the longest days of the year. From sunrise in Bridlington to sunset in Morecambe as past of a relay. Run as far as you are able.
