Some excellent news! But a bit of background first.
One of the things the HUBB UK has done since the very early days is to raise money for a charity. The charity has to be appropriate for overlanders; something we can all appreciate or connect with. Past charities supported have been for example,
Motorcycle Outreach (MoR) and last year the
Prostate Cancer charity. The latter one because well, most of you will know how badly this cancer hit Grant a couple of years back and of course, many people who come to the HUBB UK are in that dangerous age bracket.
Grant by the way is doing amazingly well and is looking forward to being with us all again this year.
So who is the charity this year? It’s an organisation called
ShelterBox. These guy pack up emergency equipment for those people who have been hit by a disaster. It might be flood, a war, a Tsunami, and earthquake and so on. They work all over the world and are often one of the first agencies on the ground with their boxes of kit – tents, blankets, cooking equipment and so on. The basics you’d need to survive if you’d just lost everything! Many of us have travelled or will travel through the areas where they help. Have a look at the link to find out more. We aim to help them to
‘Put a lid on Disaster’.
Why am I posting all of this?
Because this year the charity raffle prizes are going to be huge!
Not only do all the exhibitors at the HUBB UK very kindly stump up raffle prizes but outside organisations are helping too. And they are doing so with some magic prizes.
Get this, the
Adventure Bike Shop have stumped up a
£500 tent! And
Turcano Urbano have sent in
6 jackets, 3 pairs of gloves, a back protector, 4 pairs of shoulder armour and more. Amazing!!!
Have a look at the
HUBB UK page to see who else is so kindly sending in raffle prizes.
Brilliant!