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London’s Air Ambulance.
THE GREAT SPITALFIELDS
PANCAKE RACE
Visitors are invited to get in training
for Shrove Tuesday, 28 February and
join in the Great Spitalfields Pancake
Race. All you need is a team of four
people suitably dressed up (or down) to
enter in the relay race. Bring your own
frying pan and the organisers will
provide the pancakes.
The race will be run along Dray Walk
at The Old Truman Brewery on Brick
Lane, E1. The heats will start at 12.30,
followed by the finals and the prize
giving. The winners will be presented
with a beautifully engraved frying pan!
The best dressed team will also receive a
prize and there will be prizes for the best
behaved team and runners up and
scrumptious pancakes for all.
Every year The Great Spitalfields
Pancake Race is organised to raise
funds for London’s Air Ambulance, the
charity that delivers an advanced trauma
team to critically injured people in the
capital. So far, 35,863 patients have
been treated. The charity’s helicopter
flies from the roof of the Royal London
Hospital in Whitechapel.
To enter a team email
info@alternativearts.co.uk for an
application form and get yourselves
sponsored or just go along to watch the
fun and take a donation on the day for
London’s Air Ambulance, registered
charity no: 801013.
TAKE ON A REALLY WILD
CHALLENGE IN 2017
Fancy practicing your butterfly-stroke,
running with the pack, or facing fire to
help wildlife? Then ZSL has a challenge
for you in 2017. With a whole host of
trials to take on throughout the year,
international conservation charity ZSL
(the Zoological Society of London) is
calling on fearless fundraisers to help
protect animals around the world by
taking part in one of its many events.
Marathon-runners and park-sprinters
alike can prepare to join the pack at the
wildest run in London, the ZSL Stampede
at ZSL London Zoo on Sunday 26 March.
Starting in the Zoo, the run passes some
of the world’s most incredible animals
before heading out into Regent’s Park.
Brand new for 2017, the ZSL Zoo to
Zoo Bike Ride will see cyclists pushing
their pedals for wildlife on a Sunday
morning ride. Starting at ZSL London
Zoo in Regent’s Park and finishing at
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo near Dunstable,
riders will head north out of London
onto the open roads of Hertfordshire,
before ending up in the middle of the
beautiful Bedfordshire countryside.
And, If getting your kit off seems like
the ultimate in bravery when it comes to
fundraising, cheeky challengers can
unleash their inner animals and run as
nature intended at ZSL’s Streak for Tigers
event at ZSL London Zoo on 10 August.
Inspired by the name for a group of
tigers, a streak, those who dare to bare
will make a dash around the heart of the
Zoo to help raise big cash for big cats.
If you are happier in the water, make
like a penguin and show off your flippers
in ZSL’s Swim for Wildlife. On Saturday
26 August, ZSL will be taking over
Grade-II listed Parliament Hill Lido for
an exclusive Saturday evening swim to
support ZSL’s work with marine species.
If that sounds a little chilly, turn up
the heat at ZSL’s Fire Walk on Thursday
9 November. This red-hot challenge will
see fearless firewalkers prowl barefoot
across smouldering coals.
To take on your chosen challenge and
help ZSL work for wildlife, sign up or
buy tickets at www.zsl.org/challenge
ZSL’s Streak for Tigers 2016.
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