Bristol Electric Club raise money for many local charities and working with their main sponsor Fuseland Electrical they were proud to present a cheque for £7,500 to “The Luke Wheaton Legacy Trust”. “We hope this will help to support and encourage disadvantaged young people with their education outside of the classroom, gaining new skills and […]
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Luke’s Event 2024
Join us for Luke’s Event on Saturday 6th July 2024 at North Bristol RFC (BS32 4AG) from 2pm – late. There will be a Football tournament (7-a-side, 10 per team) at 2pm, let us know if you’d like to participate. The BBQ and Bar will be open all day. There will be Live music and this year’s […]
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We raised over £7.3k
Luke’s memorial event took place on Saturday 25th June and with your help we raised over £7,300 plus on top of that the bar took over 8k!! The bar profits as with last years have been donated by NBRFC towards a permanent memorial in memory of Luke. We would like to say the biggest of […]
Wow – that was emotional! My plans to arrive early in Eastbourne were scuppered by an over-heating van, so a three hour call out by the AA wasn’t the best preparation for the ironman distance challenge I had to do the next day! After only 4 hours sleep I awoke at 4:00am and headed to […]
Luke’s former PE teacher and one of our Trustees, Mr Young (Andy!) is competing in his first Ironbourne Ironman in Eastbourne on Sunday 1oth July 2022. He’s been training for 30 weeks in preparation for the gruelling endurance event: 2.4 mile (4km) sea swim; 112 mile (180km) bike ride; 26.2 mile (42km) run. You can […]
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Donate to ride
‘The Not so Flying Hogs’ are proudly raising money for the ‘Luke Wheaton Legacy Trust’ on its ‘Donate to Ride’ event on the 2nd of October 2021. The Routes (31, 45 and 60miles) will take in and pass through the Memorial Gardens at Avonmouth provided by Wessex Water for Luke and his colleagues – Brian […]