INJURED RIDERS WELFARE FUND

Providing Financial Help for Riders and their Families after Injury

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Cookstown Show 2025

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Cookstown Motorcycle Show 2025 – Our lovely Sharon was at the Cookstown Motorcycle Show on Friday and Saturday, April 25th/26th 2025 at the First Cookstown Presbyterian Church.

We ran a ‘Guess The Helmet’ quiz for a minimum of £1 donation with a fantastic Easter Hamper for the winner.

A huge thanks to Deirdre Patterson and her team for making us so welcome and for organising the “Guess the Helmet” quiz, raising £134.64 for Injured Riders!

Thanks so much to everyone who took part and donated, we so appreciate your support.

Thanks also to George Young and Neil Biggerstaff who scored the quiz and drew the winner – Congratulations George Leonard.
 
If you’d like to test your knowledge, have a look at helmets 1-10 in the pics – spoiler alert – answers also in the pics!
 
 

 

 

Leanne Sands Fundraising

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Leanne Sands is running Belfast City Marathon on Sunday 4th May 2025 and is raising money for the Injured Riders Welfare Fund and Alzheimer’s Society.

If you could help towards her fundraising efforts your donation would be very much appreciated.

Leanne Sands, “I’m raising £500 for two great charities, Alzheimer’s Society, this is a horrible disease that touches so many of our lives. I lost my lovely Granny to this disease so it is very important charity to my family.”

“Secondly, The Injured Riders Welfare Fund, many of you know that we our big fans of motorbike racing with my Daddy competing in road and track racing for most it his life. This charity goes above an beyond to help those that have been unfortunate to have gotten injured competing in their much loved sport, by giving them financial support while they find themselves in a difficult situation.”

We wish her every success and are delighted to be one of the chosen beneficiaries.

Leanne sent us an update recently and training is going well.

We wish her the very best and send a massive thank you

Link to her JustGiving page – www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/leanne-sands

 

Yvonne – Retires!

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Yvonne Ward, our founding member, after 21 years of working tirelessly to further the work of the Injured Riders Welfare Fund, has chosen to retire from her duties with the Fund.

Anyone who knows Yvonne, and there can’t be many who don’t, knows that she has given her all and poured her heart and soul into her work with the IRWF and in Welfare.

We will miss Yvonne as a colleague but she will always be a dear friend. We wish you all that you would wish for yourself Yvonne, and much, much more besides.

Thank you for your loyal and committed service over the decades.

It’s time to take care of you!

Yvonne we wish you a very, very happy retirement xxxx