Ride and Stride General information
We hope you will be willing to take part in this year’s Ride & Stride and help Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust (CHCT) support churches of all denominations in the county with their repair and improvement costs. Half the money you raise will go towards your nominated church.
There are numerous ways you can do this:
- Bike, walk or ride around the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside, stopping off at as many churches and chapels as you can along the way. Be imaginative in your mode of transport.
- Be a ‘church welcomer’.
- Create your own event such as a ‘Hymnalong’ or ‘Readathon’ or something quite new and seek sponsorship through it. We have now drafted a sponsor form option for this.
Be a virtual visitor – if you aren’t able to physically visit churches, try using the National Churches Trust’s explorer website to visit some virtually.
- You could set yourself a challenge, for instance, 10 minutes to visit as many different dedications (church names) as possible.
- Finally, and most important of all, be sponsored for your visits or for your time spent volunteering, or simply make a donation to the CHCT. Remember that you can split the funds you raise 50/50 with CHCT and a church of your choice, or donate all you raise to CHCT.
We hope that this year all churches will be open to visitors, but don’t worry if for any reason you cannot open your doors. You could, instead, place displays of some kind to welcome people to your churchyard, or put up Ride and Stride posters promoting the event. Whilst our aim is to have churches open and accessible, people will stop to look at the exterior of your building and take photographs, so you can still support the event.
We are doing our best to publish details of churches which will be open on the day, on our website. If your church will be open, please register the fact regarding Ride and Stride
For details about specific churches, you can also visit ‘A Church Near You’ www.achurchnearyou.com/
All the information and paperwork you need will be available to download from our website.
If you have any queries, please contact
Sue Holgate, R&S Administrator
9 The Chase, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB6 3DR
Email [email protected]
Tel. 01353 668438.
If you decide to seek sponsorship “virtually” instead of using paper forms, please record whether each sponsor wishes for their contribution to attract Gift Aid.
We have set up a link to an online giving page – GoodHub.
Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust Ride & Stride 2026
As you are our parish/church contact, I would be grateful if you would inform everyone in your church/parish about this year’s Ride and Stride event as soon as possible to ensure the date (Saturday 12th September) is in their diaries well before the summer holidays.
To send your own images/stories from the day please visit the Trust’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CambsHCT/ or email [email protected]
Thank you so much.
Yours sincerely,
Nicholas Leigh-Smith
(Vice-Chair)
Ride and Stride Disclaimers
Please note:
We regard individual fundraising volunteers as doing so “in aid of” Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust.
We are sure that churches and individual fundraising volunteers will behave sensibly and responsibly at all times. They are responsible for their own health and safety. The fundraising activities which take place on the annual Ride and Stride event are outside the control of Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust; we cannot accept any liability as a result of the activities outside our control.
We ask for names, addresses and email addresses to the extent necessary for the administration of the fundraising event. We need to retain this data for six complete tax years to support Gift Aid claims.