There are only nine days left for you to sign up to ride the Telkom 947 Cycle Challenge for Qhubeka. If you’re still wondering if you should join in, here are nine great reasons to choose Qhubeka to ride for a purpose.
- Your ride can change a child’s future. Your Qhubeka race package fee includes a donation that helps us to mobilise more people with bicycles. A child with a bicycle can get to school three times faster than a child who has to walk to school, meaning children who cycle to school on Qhubeka Bicycles arrive less tired and better able to concentrate, and their academic results improve on average by 25%.
- Your ride can create opportunities for new micro businesses. A Qhubeka Bicycle increases a person’s carrying capacity by five times, which means that many of our recipients who have worked to earn a bicycle use the Qhubeka Bicycle to start a business, whether it’s collecting and selling scrap metal, or transporting wholesale goods into their communities and selling them door-to-door.
- Your ride can inspire future cyclists. Songezo Jim, the professional cyclist who rides with Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka, learnt to ride a bicycle at age 14. Why? Because he was so inspired by the cycle race that passed by his home in Cape Town that he signed up to join a cycle club, even though he didn’t own a bicycle. Today, Songezo is a member of Africa’s first UCI registered World Tour team and is inspiring many other young South Africans to cycle. Qhubeka hopes to provide more of these children with the bicycles they need to chase that dream.
- Your ride can help us create economic opportunities. Our Qhubeka bicycles are assembled in South Africa by teams of previously unemployed men and women. By riding for Qhubeka in the 947 you help us fund more bicycles, which in turn helps us to make more work available to these people and communities.
- Your ride is good for you. At Qhubeka we love bicycles not only because they’re a symbol of hope and an environmentally-friendly, inexpensive form of transportation, but because they provide people with a healthy, sociable way to exercise too. Your bicycle is a tool for keeping fit and healthy, meeting people and having fun.
- You can earn a Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka jersey. Just like our bicycle recipients have to work hard to earn their bicycle, we’re making you work hard to earn your jersey. The first 50 of our fundraisers to raise funds for one Qhubeka Bicycle (R2 850) earn themselves a Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka jersey. After that, each fundraiser to reach fund their first bicycle will receive a Qhubeka cycling jersey.
- You are eligible for a better start time. If this is your first 947 Cycle Challenge, then by signing up to ride for a charity you’ll be eligible to start in the charity bond group. If you aren’t a seeded rider this is usually better than the unseeded group you’ll be placed in. If you receive an earlier start time from the race than our charity bond group time, you are eligible to start at the earlier time and may choose to start with us or in your earlier slot.
It’s not long before the bicycle recipients have the hang of riding.
- You can challenge yourself. Did you ride the Telkom 947 Cycle Challenge in under 3h30 last year? Are you looking for a new challenge? Then we have two for you: Join our charity bond group and do a double lap, or complete the normal course on one of our 20kg Qhubeka bicycles.
- You can join our supported training rides. Join our training rides and have the comfort of a support vehicle and trained mechanic riding en route with you. It’s also a great way to make friends who will be riding alongside you on race day.
Choose Qhubeka as your purpose
Qhubeka is a non-profit that helps people move forward and progress by giving bicycles in return for work done to improve communities, the environment or academic results. Having a bicycle changes lives by increasing the distance people can travel, what they can carry, where they can go and how fast they can get there.
We invite you to ride for Qhubeka on 20 November 2016. Mobilise people with bicycles by entering Joburg’s biggest cycling event and raise funds for Qhubeka.
The first 50 riders to donate R2 850 will each receive a Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka cycling jersey.*
PACKAGES
STANDARD PACKAGE:
Minimum R500 donation provides:
- Optional entry into charity start group (or keep your own seeded time start. To be eligible to start in the charity group, enter and raise at least R500 before the entries close on 30 September)
- Qhubeka beaded bracelet
- Supported training ride
CHALLENGER PACKAGE:
Minimum R2 850 donation received by 15 October provides:
- Optional entry into charity start group (or keep your own seeded time start. To be eligible to start in the charity group, enter and raise at least R500 before the entries close on 30 September)
- Qhubeka beaded bracelet
- Qhubeka cycling jersey (after first 50 Team Dimension Data cycling jerseys)
- Supported training ride
- High 5 nutrition product
- Option to ride a Qhubeka Buffalo bicycle**
CORPORATE PACKAGE:
(R2 850 per entry taken up in batches of five) Minimum R14 250 donation received by 15 October provides:
- 5 x optional entries into charity start group (or keep your own seeded time start. To be eligible to start in the charity group, enter and raise at least R500 before the entries close on 30 September)
- 5 x Qhubeka beaded bracelets
- 5 x Qhubeka cycling jerseys
- Supported training ride for members of the batch
- 5 x High 5 nutrition products
- Option to ride a Qhubeka Buffalo bicycle**
NOTE: As soon as your R500 donation is made, we will accept you into the Qhubeka riding group. You can join at any time, but will only be eligible for the Qhubeka start time if you have donated the minimum amount of R500 before 30 September.
You have until 15 October to increase your donation to R2 850 so that you can enjoy all the benefits on offer. Remember, you can raise as much as you can and are not limited to only raising one bicycle for a deserving beneficiary.
* Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka cycling jerseys: limited to size availability, first to reach donation target, first served on sizes.
**Qhubeka Buffalo Bicycles: Limited number of bicycles available.
HOW DO I SIGN UP?
STEP 1:
Go to www.cyclechallenge.co.za and enter. Proceed to payment and be sure to sign up for a timing chip if you don’t have one.
STEP 2:
Select Ride for a Purpose and select Qhubeka as your charity of choice.
STEP 3:
Start fundraising:
Option 1:GivenGain
- Go to: ly/947Qhubeka2016. Click on “Start fundraising”. Sign up or log in with your email address, Facebook or Gmail account.
- Choose your cause: “Qhubeka the Motive Power Movement”
- Choose your project: “Qhubeka 947 Cycle Challenge 2016”
- Provide your project info by filling in the title, summary and description then press continue
- Set a goal by filling your target, fundraising deadline then press continue. Then press “create project”
- Kick-start your fundraising by making the first donation or donate your fee to Qhubeka
- Let us know if you would like any assistance creating your GivenGain project
OR
Option 2: Donate via EFT
Bank: First National Bank South Africa
Account Name: Qhubeka the motive power
movement
Account Number: 62405320227
Branch Code: 250655
Ref: 947 + Full name
For more information contact:
- Chris at Events.admin@qhubeka.org
- Gaylene at events@qhubeka.org