Tour De Fred: Meet The Team
Great-grandfather Fred Uttley is cycling more than 1,100 miles round the country to raise funds for farmers in Bangladesh and to ask others to campaign against world hunger.
Fred, 68, from Padiham in Lancashire, will cycle to all 22 Catholic dioceses in England & Wales in just under three weeks on a challenge that has been dubbed the ‘Tour de Fred’ raising as he goes funds for our Hungry for Change campaign.
The ‘Tour de Fred’ begins on June 9 when Fred and his support team depart from Salford Cathedral. After two huge loops of the country, Fred will arrive back in Manchester, at Holy Name church on June 28, having visited more than 25 schools, churches, and cathedrals in more than 30 villages, towns and cities, and covering more than 1,100 miles.
However none of his amazing feat would be possible without his trusty support team helping him on his way!
His niece’s husband – paralympian Mark Brown, who won a silver medal at Sydney in 2000 – will join Fred in cycling the entirety of the ‘Tour de Fred’. Mark, an experienced cyclist, is a former soldier and lost his left arm in an accident.
The third member of the ‘Tour de Fred’ team is John Cowell, described by Fred as “our support driver, communicator, planner of routes, medic, author and chef.” John will follow the two cyclists in a camper van, cook their meals and tend their aches and pains. He is planning to keep a ‘Tour de Fred’ diary and to write a book at the end.
You can support the Tour de Fred by sponsoring Fred at justgiving.com/tourdefred. More details and an interactive map are available at www.cafod.org.uk/tourdefred or you can follow him on his Twitter account @LeTourdeFred and check for updates on the interactive map.
