The ElectricCranks

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Raising money for New Start (Wythenshawe Hospital Transplant Fund)

£11,477
raised of £150,000 target
We Raise money for the Heart & Lung TX Unit to Help improve our Patients Lives

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In June 2025 we will be heading back to North East of England to cycle over three days from the Scottish border at Berwick on Tweed to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. Once again we hope to bring more clarity and awareness of vital organ donation, heart transplant, thriving while living with left ventricular assist devices and hopefully get closer to our fundraising target for New Start Charity, Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.

In June 2024 the ElectricCranks cycled along the North Wales coast from South Stack Anglesey to Chester over three days making even more people aware of cardiac failure, organ donation and fundraising for New Start Charity Wythenshawe Hospital.

In June 2023 the ElectricCranks cycled for three days from Grange-over-Sands over the Pennines to Sunderland to complete our second coast to coast ride fundraising for New Start Charity Wythenshawe Hospital. We were joined along the route by the BBC Countryfile team with presenter Joe Crowley and featured in their ‘Cycling in the countryside’ episode aired on 16th July. It was available on BBC iPlayer but is now some way down in our Facebook feed.

In June 2022 Bob, Ian & Peter cycled from Bowness on Solway to South Shields along the course of Hadrian’s Wall, incidentally exactly 1900 years after it was first completed. Due to unforeseen illness Ged & Chris had to postpone their involvement and cycled the route later that year in September.

Our efforts are always greatly supported and much appreciated by Abbott Laboratories, the American multinational medical devices and health care company and makers of the LVAD HeartMate III.

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About the charity

Wythenshawe Hospital transplant Centre is one of only five national heart and lung transplant centres in the UK, covering a patient catchment area of over six million. New Start (Wythenshawe Hospital transplant Fund) supports the transplant programme helping it remain at the forefront of excellence

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£11,476.55
+ £1,760.16 Gift Aid
Online
£11,476.55

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