Enjoy a Booze & Brushes event and help support Amy Dalton-Leader’s fundraising efforts as she gets set to take on the Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club’s 50th Anniversary Memorial Cycle Ride.

Amy will be among those pulling on their cycle helmets and using their pedal power to take on the Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club’s 50th Anniversary Memorial Cycle Ride in September.

In a bid to raise as much as she can, she has organised a Booze & Brushes event to help raise as much as she can.

Enjoy a fun afternoon with friends and create a masterpiece on Sunday 8 September at 2pm at The Farmers Club in Bury St Edmunds. No experience is required as you will be guided step by step.

All materials are included. Aprons are provided but please bear in mind acrylic paint will be used which does not wash out of clothing.

About the cycle ride:

The cycle ride commemorates those lost in the 1974 air disaster. The plane crash on March 3, 1974, was the worst the world had ever seen.

Players, staff and colleagues from Bury Rugby Club had visited France in good spirits – to watch the England versus France Five Nations match and take part in a friendly against a local side – having just won the Suffolk Knockout Cup.

But after their friendly scheduled for the day of the crash was postponed, 18 of the 21-strong party opted to take an earlier flight on the ill-fated Turkish Airlines DC-10 as a two-day strike at Heathrow had halted any British flights.

In total 346 people perished in the tragedy, which caused incomparable grief in the West Suffolk town and rugby community. Ten local women had been widowed and between them, they had 19 children who were now fatherless.

In 2014 the Memorial Cycle Ride took place and the team raised an amazing £187,000, again 2024’s ride will see riders tackle 354 miles from the Memorial Site in Ermenonville Forest, France, to Bury St Edmunds.

Riders will set off on September 10 and finish on September 15.

You can find out more about the ride here: https://memorialcycleride.co.uk/

Funds raised will be split between the rugby club (60 per cent) and the St Nic’s (40 per cent), you can support the ride here: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/memorialcycleride

This is a third-party event not organised by St Nicholas Hospice Care.

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