The Great Bakery Bike Ride

The Great Bakery Bike Ride raises the dough!

A team of Greggs staff have completed a mammoth 900 mile relay around the UK, visiting every Greggs bakery, raising a fantastic £76,000 for BBC Children in Need and our Greggs Breakfast Clubs.

The ten day ride began at our Treforest bakery, South Wales, on Thursday 17^th June, where the team of cyclists from Greggs were joined by Olympic Gold Medallist Daley Thompson. 

Ten days later the team crossed the finish line at our Gosforth bakery in Newcastle, back to where Greggs began 70 years ago as John Gregg delivered yeast and homemade cakes from his bike! 

The money raised:

We raised:

•  £51,000 from sponsorship and fundraising in our shops, bakeries and our Justgiving website
•  £25,000 donated by Greggs to meet the second year costs of the new breakfast clubs that we'll be able to open.

BBC Children in Need

Last year, Greggs staff and customers raised a whopping £739,000 for BBC Children in Need, taking our total to £1.4 million in the last 4 years. The Great Bakery Bike Ride has given us a fantastic start to our 2010 BBC Children in Need campaign!

Greggs Breakfast Clubs

Greggs Breakfast Clubs give primary school children in disadvantaged areas a free, healthy breakfast each day with fresh bread from our local shops for toast, cereals, fruit and other delicious food. Each day we help over 6,200 children around the UK in 136 schools. The Great Bakery Bike Ride means we can open 15 new Breakfast Clubs, helping an additional 600 primary school children every day. The extra Greggs donation of £25,000 will meet the second year costs of the new clubs.  

Thank you to all of our customers and staff for your support - your generosity has helped to make a difference to children's lives.

Read about our journey....

You can read the stories and see photos from The Great Bakery Bike Ride on

https://bakerybikeride.wordpress.com

* The money raised will be administered through the Greggs Foundation, charity no. 296590