AA patrols are coming up with raising funds for Help for Heroes, and they will be taking part in a rally across Europe that hopes to raise around £100,000 for the cause. This would be an eleven day event and The Help for Heroes 4X4 European Rally 2010 (19-29 June) and it would cover 1800 miles across six countries. At the starting point, it will be waived by BBC Radio 2’s Lynn Bowles near Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, before they would be crossing Normandy from Portsmouth. After that the routes take to other significant places like Arnhem, Holland, and Bastogne in Belgium, where from they would be heading towards Alsace, France. Finally, they finish in Bavaria in Germany.
For the purpose of raising funds for charity, there are great peoples like Tony Knott of Sandhurst, Berkshire, Kevin Jones of Wittersham, Kent and John Foster from Shrewsburry, will be giving their hands for any kind of technical issues. Further, carrying on with the cause, they will move to two Land Rovers- one is the Defender 100 and the second one is Discovery that they bought and had done painting in AA colours. After the event of the charity these would be sold. Tony Knott, one who would be helping with any of the issues technically, said “Help for Heroes is a great charity for those special heroes who are serving in the reserves. There are many other people at AA breakdown family and there are much more friends there. The total number of vehicles would be 49 and to keep everyone on road, we all have our own portion of work cut out. We are totally focussed on doing our job with determination and this will help us in raising good fund for the cause.”
There are two more organizations that are supporting AA with the real cause of raising Funds for Heroes, and these are AA’s partners: Land Rover that is supplying vehicles for the organisers and O2, which is helping in providing mobile communication. Tony, Kevin and John have done a step forward action by creating a web page and they are accepting any kind of donations that would be given for the cause. The Help for Heroes 4×4 European rally 2010 website would be soon updated with all the blogs, pictures and events included in it. There are four of the vehicles in the event that would be fitted with tracking function so that they could be easily followed in their progress. One of those vehicles is Tony Knott’s Land Rover, team 45. If you are also eager to follow the event then you can also follow them on Twitter.