Contact Us

07802 245 631 info@camgrant.org.uk

HiAMS: Info for Riders

HiAMS Calendar

Follow this link for the HiAMS Calendar showing dates for meetings, training rides and the ride to Amsterdam itself.

HiAMS Virtual Challenge

Encourage family, friends and colleagues to join our HiAMS Virtual Challenge to walk, run or ride 250 miles – outdoors or indoors – by 23 May (the day the last of us return home from Amsterdam!)

Training Rides

For routes and other info about training rides when available please see HiAMS Training Rides

TotalGiving

Guidance on creating and editing a fundraising page is included on slides 13-23 in the presentation used at our 18 Jan meeting. The main links are:

Top Fundraising Tips

A reminder that we ask every rider to aim to raise £500 or more for Cameron Grant Memorial Trust. Here are some top tips to help you along the way!

  1. START EARLY. The earlier the better!
  2. Remind everyone that you are paying to take part so all donations go to support Cameron Grant Memorial Trust.
  3. SHARE your TOTAL GIVING PAGE on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram and include it in your email signature
  4. EMAIL, WHATSAPP and TEXT your family, friends, colleagues and other contacts. Try a ‘Send to All’! Sundays are a good day to do this as people usually have more time to read it and donate.
  5. Regular POSTS on your social media accounts really work … try posting photographs, and videos with regular updates on training, money raised so far and thankyou’s. Late afternoon, early evening is the best time to post plus weekends!
  6. Always include the URL Link for your individual page which will take people straight to your page to donate. Make it really easy for them! (You can copy it from the search bar when you are on your page… then paste it)
  7. Try a poster wherever anyone that anyone that might support you will see it! Adam is putting up a large poster in the Corner Shop and Les has one in a village hall.
  8. If you would like a QR code for your individual page (handy, for example, for a poster, or just to show people on your phone) please just ask me
  9. THANKYOUS for donations received so far can be sent in group emails and posts. This can really help to remind others who haven’t done so and to spread the word.
  10. Many employers offer matched donations; if yours does, please remember to ask.
  11. If you hit a TARGET on your Total Giving Page, increase it to a new one!
  12. Remember also to promote the ride after the event too. There are bound to be people who forgot to donate before!

If you have any tips to add, please let Evan know on evan@camgrant.org.uk.

HiAMS Club on Strava

To join our Club on Strava please follow this link: strava.app.link/Ui6up0vKvRb. (If you are new to Strava, you might want to have a look at the Strava Guide: How to Get Started on Strava). A summary of the latest activities by members of our club follows below:

Cost of Mental Health Support helplines:

  • Shout 85258 report that £10 covers the cost of a potentially life-saving text conversation and added that £25 can fund a clinician to provide expert supervision of conversations on their digital mental health platform and £250 can train a new Shout Volunteer to take life-saving conversations.As a partner of Shout 85258, Cameron Grant Memorial Trust invites those seeking help to text CAM to 85258. As of Jan 2025 there had been 852 text conversations using the CAM keyword.
  • PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide say that, on average, it costs them £10 for a 30 min call, text, email or webchat with HOPELINE247.Note that PAPYRUS support both children and young people under the age of 35 who are experiencing thoughts of suicide AND anyone concerned that a young person could be thinking about suicide.
  • Samaritans say it costs £10 to answer a call.

10 Mar meeting, 7pm at SOHO Tavern

Riding Back from AMS call on Teams

11 Feb meeting at SOHO Tavern

18 Jan meeting at The Hampton