Save the date - the 2025 Bike Ride will be on Saturday 13th September!
Thank you so much to everyone who took part in the 2024 Bike Ride – it was a glorious day and we hope you had a great day out and enjoyed visiting our wonderful churches.
Now is the time to send in your sponsorship money and your photos of the day! As of today we have received £119,154 – so a big thank you to everyone who has already sent their money in.
Please send photographs to info@norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk Please make sure you send the original size, as they need to be really clear to display well on the website. If you cannot email the original size, you can send them using We Transfer, which is a free service. You might win a prize if your photo is one of the chosen winners!
We also want to hear your stories of the day please – where you went, how many miles you walked or cycled, and anything unusual that you saw! Do let us know!
Since the Bike Ride started, we have raised over £4million! A tremendous effort by everyone who has taken part.
And don’t forget the competitions that we run including The Lord Lieutenant’s certificate for the individual who raises the most money and the Wall of Fame for the most churches visited. We will publish more about the winners of those soon.
We would like to thank Savills for sponsoring the event again in 2024.
Bishop Bishop is doing the Bike Ride!
No, you are not seeing double, and forgive the alliteration, but the Bishop of Thetford, the Rt Revd Ian Bishop is going to be taking part in his first Norfolk Churches Trust Bike Ride & Walk.
This is his first opportunity to participate since being appointed in September 2023, and he wants to take part this year to thank the Trust for the immense work they do supporting our amazing churches. Therefore, Bishop Ian is planning a route from Wymondham Abbey to Attleborough St Mary’s, via nineteen village churches, including a pit stop in Hingham for lunch.
He plans to set off at 9am and if anyone would like to join him, please do contact him in advance at bishop.thetford@dioceseofnorwich.org. He says ’I’m no cyclist, so it will be slow.’ We say slow and steady is fine, what better way to take in the beautiful Norfolk countryside.
Discussing the importance of the Bike Ride’s fundraising mission, Bishop Ian said:
“Norfolk Churches Trust do an amazing job helping to care for the hundreds of stunning Churches around the Diocese. Coming into Norfolk last September I have become increasingly grateful for the work the Trust do, and I know many of our Churches have benefitted from grants that have helped to preserve the remarkable mission that happens in and around our parishes.”
You can support Bishop’s Ian ride by donating at his Just Giving Page –
Ian Bishop is fundraising for Norfolk Churches Trust (justgiving.com)
We at the Norfolk Churches Trust thank him in advance and wish him well for the day.
