Work Place Learning Centre gets into motor sport

 
Well a 23 year old Audi 100 isn’t exactly a formula one car and Andrew Murphy and Peter Bennett are far from Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, but it’s still motor sport, says Abeceder managing director Michael Millward and “everyone at Abeceder and Work Place Learning Centre are just as excited about supporting Team Desert Rats as the fans of the big teams from Italy, Germany and South Yorkshire or down the road from our office in Garforth.”
 
Team Desert Rats are taking part in the Plymouth to Banjul Challenge, a 3,700-mile and three week journey, through 7 countries to the capital of The Gambia at the end of which the 23 year old Audi will be sold at auction to raise money for local children’s charities.
 
The schedule starts on Friday 7th January when the team departs by ferry from Portsmouth (there isn't one out of Plymouth on this day) to Santander in northern Spain. Andrew and Peter then head south for a ferry to Morocco. This next leg of the journey will take them through Morocco, into the Western Sahara, down to Mauritania, then into Senegal and finally to The Gambia

The epic journey coincides with the launch of Driving Distractions a new driving safety education poster that features the characters from the hit TV series The Simpsons and is available exclusively from Work Place Learning Centre the Abeceder  learning resources web shop.
 
“I have known Andrew for almost twenty years,” says Michael Millward, “and to be honest I am not surprised that he is going to attempt to cross the Sahara in this sort of vehicle, as is him not doing it without wanting to create a benefit for other people as well. I am really pleased that at Abeceder we have been given the opportunity to support these mad cap adventurers who are also raising money for charities here in the UK”
 
For the duration of the journey sales of the new Driving Distractions poster will support the charities that Andrew and Peter Bennett have decided to support here in the UK Help for Heroes and Naomi House Children’s Hospice.
 
If you would like to sponsor this mad adventure or follow the progress please visit Team Desert Rats.

 

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