What an achievement! Everyone involved should be proud of raising over £1M for the British Paralympic Association (BPA), on a night when we were also celebrating the announcement of Deloitte continuing as title sponsor of our corporate cycling challenge Deloitte Ride Across Britain, and signing on as an official partner of the BPA through to the 2016 Paralympic Games.
On Tuesday I was fortunate enough to be invited to the BPA's £1m Celebration. It was great speaking to Paralympian Craig McCann who is taking part in Deloitte Ride Across Britain (RAB) 2013 and hearing how the money raised made a difference to ParalympisGB in the London 2012 Games. Since 2006 we have been a dedicated partner of the BPA and through Deloitte RAB we surpassed our aim to raise £1m by 2013 a year early. In fact, over the last three years Deloitte RAB riders have pedalled almost 1,800,000 miles and raised £1,151,689 in total. If every pound equated to a mile, what has been raised would get us to Rio and back 200 times and to the moon and back almost 5 times (at least I was reliably told this fact anyway!).
After our firm's transformational impact on disability sport in the UK before and during the London 2012 Paralympic Games and the now confirmed extended support, Deloitte is clearly showing our legacy commitment to ensure the disability sport movement in the UK continues to go from strength to strength to see even more medals won in Rio 2016.
From grass roots to gold medals, we're also proud to be sustaining our backing for the British Paralympic Association, as their Official Partner, on their journey to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. This integral support, combined with funds raised through Deloitte RAB, will help the BPA maintain the momentum of ParalympicsGB, who won more medals at the London Games than ever before. We believe that it is the continued success of this team that will inspire the nation to think differently about disability.
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