The Essential Guide Magazine Culcheth - Sept/Oct 14 | Page 14

Essential Feature Cheshire Jailbreak The first Cheshire Jail break on the 26th of July went fantastically well with teams travelling all over the country to raise money for the Genesis Research Trust challenger Zoe Atherton and Juliette Hassell. We smashed our £6000 target making £6308 in ten hours. Our team from Innex designs, who also sponsored the event, raised a massive £1240 during their ten hours winning themselves a widescreen tv and tweeted pictures of themselves all around the northwest reaching Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool football clubs and even got a selfie with the Liverpool Giants. Keith Jones aka Team Hilts arrived back bang on 8pm by motorbike having reached Inverness in a biplane earlier and tackled the traffic commandeering a truck at one point, to cover over 800 miles in ten hours winning the longest distance prize. Girls Too Loud team dressed in their neon fancy dress won tickets to the Big reunion, by bringing us back a Blackpool sandcastle from the beach, and arrived back to The Black Swan on 4 Hells Angels motorbikes. Duo team Go Loud Or Go Home arrived back running across fields in their orange jumpsuits, having spent their day at Barton aerodrome and managed to talk their way up in planes and helicopters, winning 2 festival camping tickets to Leeds festival by tweeting 14 the best selfie of the day. T h e Cheshire Jail break was a great success and all competitors had a great time going to some brilliantly inventive lengths to cover their distances. The team from Mojo’s Childcare wowed the crowds at the Black swan by arriving home in a helicopter. Sponsors Awesome Ltd spent their 10 hours with their motors on rolling roads and also raised over £370 to celebrate their 25th birthday. The Jailbreak party ran on till late at The Black Swan with BBQs, Hog roasts, bouncy castles and music from four great bands on the Wire FM stage, whilst raffles and auctions took place to get us to our final fantastic amount. Stuart Wraith GM of The Black Swan and host said, ‘When we were approached to run a charity event for Genesis research trust and the girls, Zoe and Juliette, we wondered what can we do that would be different and get people thinking about the cause. We had no idea it would turn into such a big and successful event and that’s all down to the support we have had here today and from all our sponsor partners over the last few weeks, without them we couldn’t have made this possible.’ Above all we smashed the girls targets getting them to their £6000 target for the Genesis research trust Charity Registration No. 292518, courtesy of The Black Swan who hosted the whole event and now plans are already underway for next years Jailbreak challenge. Cheshire Jail break…. Escape is only the beginning…. Nine issues in Culcheth Lymm Great Sankey & Penketh Chapelford Stockton Heath & Appleton Thewlwall, Grappenhall & Latchford Birchwood Lowton & Golborne Newton-le-Willows