About The Cycle

The route will be cycled over 6 days, starting from Ayr on Friday 21st June and arriving in Kirkwall on Wednesday 26th June. The total route travelled will be just over 435 Miles or 700 Kilometres.

Our training has started in earnest and over the next few months we will be improving our mileage travelled, in order to ensure we can cope with our longest section (95 miles on Day 1) and our toughest sections North of Inverness.

Background to the Situation

We are appalled by the events that took place within Israel, and utterly condemn these acts of violence. Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world and its residents are currently experiencing unimaginable fear and suffering. They have no way to leave Gaza, and are running out of food, water, and safe shelter.

This sponsored cycle will hopefully raise a reasonable amount for the SCIAF emergency appeal.

What is the Emergency Appeal?

SCIAF have launched an emergency appeal to provide humanitarian support to the people of Gaza.

Despite finding themselves in the midst of the crisis, with their staff displaced multiple times and living in temporary camps, SCIAF's partners are responding to those most in need, providing essential medical and food aid across Gaza. They are doing this at great risk to themselves. Already two staff members in Jerusalem have been killed, along with members of their families.  

SCIAF are working with their network and local organisations to respond to those most in need. SCIAF's partners and staff on the ground in Gaza are providing essential cash-transfers, primary health care and psychosocial support, particularly to children. They are also providing care and support for their staff, ensuring they are able to continue to provide frontline services, especially in areas where no one else is operational, such as northern Gaza.

Your sponsorship ensure essential aid reaches those most in need and help provide emergency support to those most in need.

Who are SCIAF?

SCIAF are present in the most difficult places. SCIAF work with people in the hardest circumstances, so they can overcome their daily struggles and the structures of injustice that make and keep them poor. The charity actively serve those forced to the fringes of society and deprived of opportunity. For decades the charity has walked with people whose entire livelihood can wither in a drought or be washed away in a flood.

SCIAF work to prevent disasters and, when disaster does strike, the charity respond immediately by feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless and rebuilding lives and communities in the long term.