Aberdeen to Dundee

The Aberdeen office was in charge of the baton on Thursday and visited two of our sites in the city. Firstly the team of Mary, Mike, Stewart & Chris walked from the office to our project at North Anderson Drive Fire Station. Kieran was on hand to see them off.

Scottish Fire & Rescue service were there to provide a warm welcome (pardon the pun) along with Kieran and the baton was handed to the second team of walkers from the project at Aberdeen Music hall. The team of John, Pierre and Blake set off to the Music hall.

From there there was a relay of running to get the baton to Dunnottar Castle on the outskirts of Stonehaven where Jim from the castle greeted us and generously donated £250 on the spot!! The support crew had to make a stop for an ice cream to keep there strength up. It was 19deg in the north of Scotland after all!!

Just a small cone a Stonehaven beach front

Stunning scenery and the weather helped!

Mark then did the last leg of the day from the castle down the coast to Montrose with a head wind all the way!!!

Mark handed over to Sean for the final leg of the week on a rather dark and damp Friday morning in Montrose for the 35 miles down the coastal bike route to the Tay Bride for the handover to the Glasgow office.

Safe to say Sean got wet on the way and was

forced to shelter in a bus stop with three OAP's!!!

2020 Challenge - Join the journey

This year Build UK are aiming to raise over £200k for charity with the 2020 challenge, the event will link up all the regional businesses on a ‘green’ journey and is open to everyone to take part.

Starting at the most northerly Kier site on Orkney the challenge is to join up each business on the green relay route that takes in all Kier offices and as many sites as possible. The journey has to be completed in 2020 hours and must finish at the most southerly site in Cornwall.

The challenge is to complete the green relay using only ‘non-motorised’ forms of transport such as walking, running, horse-riding, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, land surfing, surfing, ice skating, cycling…..

The monies raised will go towards the Kier Foundation charity this year ‘Alzheimer’s’ and to local charities that have been nominated by each of the local offices.

We would be grateful if you could help us raise as much money as possible by either sponsoring our journey or making a pledge.

As a sponsor you would be invited to join in the challenge at any stage. We have a range of sponsorship opportunities available and for our main sponsor the package also includes a team building day for ten people, which will make up part of the journey. The event takes place over four weeks providing plenty of press opportunities at local and regional levels for all sponsors.

We do hope that you will join us in some way on our journey and help us to raise us much money as we can for our chosen charities, who work so hard to support their local causes.

The Charities

The Kier Foundation

The Routes and Dates

The Challenge

Aberdeen to Dundee

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