Fresh from picking up their A-level results, two Reed’s pupils have hopped on their bicycles and are heading to Rome.
After gaining two A* and five A grades between them last week, Alex Pecorari and Nick Beven, both 18, began their journey from St Paul’s Cathedral to St Peter’s Basillica on Saturday, August 17.
The 2,000km journey will take the friends through France, over the French Alps and into Italy before arriving in Rome two weeks later.
The boys are cycling to raise more than £1,000 for the Calabash Trust UK, which works with schools and communities in areas of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Both boys visited South Africa last year on the Calabash Grass Roots programme where students from the UK visit the poor township areas to help build and improve sports fields, libraries and food gardens.
Alex’s mother, Denise Peet, said: “Reed's School has been marvellous at instilling a desire in the boys to serve and help others and the experience they had last summer really left its mark on them.
“This ride is their way of trying to make a difference while challenging them both physically and mentally.”
No strangers to fundraising, Alex, Nick and another Reed’s pupil, Ben Brown, cycled from their school to Paris in June 2011 and raised more than £4,300 for Calabash.
To sponsor Alex and Nick, visit justgiving.com/dometorome.
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