Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons launches the Five-Way Charity Challenge

 

 Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons 5-way charity challenge

 

Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons is pleased to announce the launch of its Five-Way Charity Challenge, a unique project being run by the firm, which will link its five offices through a series of challenges while raising a significant amount for the firm's four charities.

 

The basic idea of the Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons Five-Way Charity Challenge is to link the firm's offices using five different modes of transport, in five separate legs as follows:

 

  • Leg 1 - New Kings Court to Oxford, via Winchester - classic cars
  • Leg 2 - Oxford to London – mass punting and a cycle along the Thames
  • Leg 3 - London to Portsmouth - cycle
  • Leg 4 - Portsmouth to Southampton Water - row
  • Leg 5 - Southampton Water to New Kings Court - mass participation walk

 

The Challenge will start and finish at the firm's New Kings Court office, which is located in Chandler's Ford at the junction of the M3 and M27.

 

5-way charity challenge map

 

Each leg has an allocated leader within the firm who is in charge of the project management, training, safety and overall success of their specific leg.  Recruitment has been underway since the outset of the project and there are now an impressive number of participants and volunteers who are involved in the challenge.  There are a range of sponsorship routes, including paper sponsorship forms and http://www.justgiving.com/ sites for online donations.

 

The first leg will take place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 August, with the other legs happening on that weekend and also on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September.  The Grand Finale, a mass participation sponsored walk, will come full circle and culminate at New Kings Court on Saturday 20 September.

 

Jonathan White, a solicitor at Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons and Project Leader for the Five-Way Charity Challenge comments: "While this all started as a conversation in a pub, the project has now developed real momentum.  We want to involve the talent in the firm and achieve something unique and special for this year's four charities.  The funds raised through the Five-Way Charity Challenge will make a difference to the fantastic work already being undertaken by those organisations."

 

 

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Notes to editor:

 

Contact:

 

Dan Baber

Email: dan.baber@bllaw.co.uk

Tel: 020 7814 5489

 

Members of the press are welcome to participate – perhaps on the classic car leg, travelling out by boat to see the rowers or perhaps for the grand finale at New Kings Court next to the M3/M27 junction on 20 Sept 2008.

 

Please contact Dan Baber (020 7814 5489) if you are interested.

 

The firm's four charities:

 

Rowans Hospice - http://www.rowanshospice.co.uk/

The Art Room - http://www.theartroom.org.uk/

Hope and Homes - http://www.hopeandhomes.org/

Enham - http://www.enham.org.uk/