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Bucks event raises over £100,000 for charity

The Kop Hill Climb organisers have just announced that this year’s festival, held in September in Princes Risborough,  raised £107,000 for local charities and good causes.

The distribution of funds raised will happen in the New Year, with the organisation giving to a wide range of local charities.

In the past they have included:

 

Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA)

Aylesbury Vale Child Contact Centre

Citizens Advice Bucks

Chilterns MS Centre

First Steps Pre-School

Flackwell Heath & Loudwater Age Concern Day Centre

Kidsout

Lindengate

Mediation Buckinghamshire

Pace Centre

Princes Risborough Centre

Rennie Grove Hospice Care

Restore Hope

South Bucks Hospice

Spinal Injuries Association

St Mary’s Church

Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research

Wycombe Homeless Connection

Youth Concern

The organising team expresses their thanks and gratitude to the visitors, sponsors, exhibitors, entrants and volunteers who all contributed to the success of the event.

 Next year’s festival dates are September 16th and 17th , when the organisers hope for a record year to take the total past the magical one million pound mark.

 

JOHN BIGGS, CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE with a cake baked by a local Ukranian refugee showing the amount raised.

 

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