The team at Randle Engineering have set themselves a Summer Challenge, a group collaborative step challenge which will run over 8 weeks between July and September, enabling the whole team to get involved regardless of age, health, or ability. A fully inclusive experience.

To make this especially demanding and a real challenge, they will virtually walk across Europe from Warwickshire to Gothenburg, Sweden. A total walking distance of 2350 miles!

The team are fundraising for Lincoln Hookey, the seven-year-old son of Randle's Operation Manager, Sarah Hookey via the Tree of Hope charity. Lincoln has scan negative diplegia cerebral palsy which means that he has weakness and stiffness in the leg muscles, he can only walk short distances, is unsteady, often falls, and fatigues easily. He also experiences muscle spasms and lives daily with pain. He needs SDR (Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy) surgery, a surgical procedure that aims to reduce spasticity in the lower limbs. This is not funded by the NHS, so Sarah and her family are trying to raise more than £22,000 to enable him to have the procedure and physiotherapy post op.

‘Lincoln is so grateful for those using their legs for challenges to support his fundraising, whether that be a sponsored walk like this one, a run, or even a bounce which his friends in his Beaver group are doing. He hopes one day to be able to do the same for others, with this surgery that might be a possibility!.’

Randle’s Office Administrator, Julia Travis and Senior Consultant Engineer, Peter Benzie have designed a route encompassing many of the major European car marques, some of whom are past or current customers. The team will start not far from their own offices in Warwick at Jaguar Land Rover in Gaydon going south to McLaren in Woking before crossing the channel to France visiting Renault, Peugeot and Citroen in Paris and Bugatti in Molsheim, before walking into Germany for Porsche & Mercedes in Stuttgart, then continuing south through Switzerland towards Italy and Turin for Fiat & Alfa Romeo, then Ferrari in Maranello and Lamborghini in Bologna. They will then turn north back into Germany to visit BMW in Munich, Audi in Ingolstadt & VW in Wolfsburg before continuing through Denmark into Sweden for Koenigsegg in Angelholm and finally Volvo in Gothenburg.

The original idea was to encourage everyone to go outside and enjoy the summer weather whilst also improving their health and fitness, not always easy when the day job involves sitting at a desk finding solutions to complex engineering problems. The fundraising aspect is an added incentive.

The team will be giving weekly updates of their progress, where they have reached, and the miles walked. So, check back regularly to see the progress. Please support them in anyway you can. (If you are donating to encourage a particular member of the Randle Team that you know, please can you tag them in your comments).

Thank you. The Randle Engineering Team.

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