Thank you for taking the time to visit my fundraising page.

I have signed up to participate in the Northants Police chapter of this year's Police Unity Tour which is being held over 26-28th July 2024.

The Police Unity Tour is a long-distance cycle ride undertaken by hundreds of police officers across the UK in aid of Care of Police Survivors (COPS).

The primary purpose of the Police Unity Tour is to raise awareness of Law Enforcement Officers who have died in the line of duty.

The secondary purpose of the UK tour is to raise funds for Care of Police Survivors, a UK charity dedicated to helping the families of police officers and police staff who have lost their lives on duty.

I will be part of a team of Northants police officers, police staff and retired officers cycling 200 miles from Northamptonshire to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire where a Service of Remembrance is being held by COPS for their fallen friends and colleagues.

Whilst realising the dangers of policing, nobody expects to die in the line of duty. When such a tragedy does occur, the surviving family endures emotions including denial, bewilderment, anger and depression. The police service does not have the resources to maintain support for these families beyond the immediate aftermath of death. COPS is a UK registered charity dedicated to helping families of police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty rebuild their lives. It aims to ensure that survivors have all the help they need to cope with such a tragedy and that they remain part of the police family. COPS enables survivors to help survivors. Only another survivor can fully understand what new survivors endure and that shared experience is the basis for the peer support programme. COPS aims to build a network of survivors around the UK putting survivors in touch with those who truly understand.

For further information on the important work undertaken by COPS, please visit https://ukcops.org/

I hope you will be able to offer me support in completing this challenge by providing a donation towards my £400 fundraising goal for COPS which will be gratefully received.

Thank you.

Graham