Peter Bache, co-owner of Birmingham-based valuations and auctioneering company European Valuations, is launching ‘Pass the Ball’, a 10-day-long walking challenge from Twickenham Stadium to Stourbridge Rugby Club, and you’re invited to attend.
Taking place on Tuesday 5 February from 4.30pm at Primitivo Birmingham, this is your chance to find out more about Peter, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in February 2017, and hear about the challenge.
Following treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), Peter is now in remission and is once again turning his sights towards raising money for an important cause.
In 2018, Peter got together with friends and family and walked in the footsteps of Dick Whittington, walking from Gloucester to London to raise money for QEHB Charity and Prostate Cancer UK, raising an incredible £61,500 in the process.
Now, Peter and his friends are preparing for an even greater challenge which will see them walk from Twickenham Stadium, home of English Rugby, to Stourbridge Rugby Club, raising money to support QEHB Charity and the Rugby Football Union Injured Players Foundation (IPF).
Pass the Ball will see a team of walkers cover the distance between London and Stourbridge from 1 May to 10 May, and a team of cyclists complete the same journey between 8 May and 10 May.
Peter said: “I have the appetite for one last fundraiser to give back to the QEHB Charity Prostate Cancer Fund, and I also want to raise money for the IPF, which supports rugby players with catastrophic injuries.”
QEHB Charity works to provide added extras which are ‘over and above’ that which the NHS is able to fund, from providing state-of-the-art equipment, to funding world-class research. Pass the Ball is raising money to support the work of the world-renowned Professor Nick James, whose work with prostate cancer patients has the capacity to change the way that the disease is treated in the country.
The IPF works to provide support and information to rugby players in England who sustain a catastrophic spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury playing the game, and help prevent future injuries through research and education.
Find out more about the event by visiting: www.passtheball.co.uk.
