The ‘Tour de Furness’ charity cycle event is organised by the Rotary Club of Furness to raise money for the St Mary’s Hospice and other Rotary charities. The idea of the event is to get cyclists of all abilities joining in to have fun and raise money for local charity.
We have a choice of three routes, from 5 to 50 miles to test your physical fitness, but remember, ‘this is not a race!’
It's not a race... it's for fun
History
The Rotary Club of Furness has been organising the Tour de Furness, charity cycle event since 1995 and has seen the event grow bigger and better every year.
2009 Race
Another bumper year for the Tour de Furness, we made over £24,0000 which was swelled by the participation of BAE Submarines and their generous match funding scheme making a total raised of £31,507.72. Of this £17000 went to St Mary’s Hospice with the remainder distributed to the following Charities and Good Causes.
Click here to find out which good causes were supported following the 2009 event.
Routes
This year the cycle routes will be very similar to the routes used last year, (to view the routes, click on a route on the menu bar). We will again have a family fun ride of 5 miles, the Tour de Furness route of 13 miles which passes by Furness Abbey and for cycling enthusiasts we have the, Furness 50, which covers approximately 50 miles to Coniston and back in a figure of eight. Remember that the event is not a race, it is for fun, so please enjoy our new website and let us hope for fine weather on the first Sunday of September.
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