Rachel Smith and Rebecca Blake's Fundraiser!
We're raising money to provide a young person with a scholarship to join The True Athlete Project's Global Mentoring Program! It would mean so much to us if you would consider donating.
Thanks to your incredible generosity, we have increased our target! Let's see if we can raise TWO FULL SCHOLARSHIPS for young people to join this programme in 2022.
Who Are We?
Rachel competed in London 2012 in Rhythmic Gymnastics and now works for the International Olympic Committee and mentors for TAP. Rebecca is a cricketer who captained the French national team at the age of 17! We are currently matched in a year-long mentoring relationship, meeting regularly to explore and take on the challenges of sport and life! Since we are separated by 1000km of distance, we meet virtually through Zoom instead. Here's some more information about TAP and about the mentoring program we are raising scholarships for.
What is The True Athlete Project (TAP)?
TAP aims to build a more compassionate world through sport. We design and deliver a range of creative, mindfulness-based programmes for athletes and coaches at all levels of sport - from primary school children to Olympians and Paralympians.
Our Fundraiser:
In a pre-COVID-19 world, Rachel was going to physically cycle from her doorstep in Lausanne, across France, all the way to Rebecca's doorstep, covering the distance between the mentoring relationship. Given the challenges with restrictions in Switzerland, France and the UK, we have decided to move this attempt to a virtual cycle!
Starting September 25, Rachel will begin her virtual journey, completing 1000km across 5 - 6 days, completing 180km of virtual cycling per day; this equates to 5 - 6 back-to-back Iron Man Distances! Although Rachel enjoys a virtual cycle, this will be an entirely new challenge for her and incredibly different to gymnastics! You can keep up to date with Rachel's cycling training and watch her live on her Instagram @pedalsandpastries.
Make sure to follow Rachel's progress on her Instagram and donate so we can keep you up to date.
Being a part of TAP has been a fulfilling journey for both of us, and we hope that we can raise enough donations to allow an athlete from an underprivileged background the opportunity to experience what we have together.
Target Amount: £950 (the cost of 1 full scholarship)! If we raise a full scholarship, we will get to name our scholarship for the young person / young people we're supporting through your donations (such as "The Smith-Blake Scholarship").
