Racing down flights of stairs on a mountain bike in London, scaling an office building in Manchester, or kayaking a canal in Bristol are undoubtedly some of the newest and most exciting ways to raise money for charity. RedR became an affiliated charity of the Rat Race Urban Adventure Series in 2009, and since the season began in June, RedR has seen 4 teams raise over £3000 to help people affected by disaster.

Perhaps not surprisingly, many of our teams chose RedR as their charity because of their links to the engineering community. The two teams who participated in June’s Bristol Rat Race, for example, included MWH engineers Rob Palmer, David Ripley and Paul Black, and civil engineer Peter Mueller, and his team-mates Philippa Norman and Louise Watts.
While Peter heard about RedR’s involvement with the Rat Race through the charity’s newly refurbished Facebook Page, Rob’s team signed up after hearing about the event through Engineers Without Borders (EWB). As engineers, the team believed that RedR is the perfect charity to support.

“RedR has always been one of the organisations that personally caught my eye, through the work they do in emergency situations, right from when I first thought about starting Civil Engineering.  To be able to raise money to help in this cause has been incredibly satisfying!” said Paul. Their team finished a commendable 17th out of 124 teams.

At the beginning of August, two teams from Atkins Bennett successfully completed the Sheffield Rat Race and have between them raised over £1800 so far. The teams finished an impressive 3rd and 4th place in their category and consisted of six participants; Corin Brotherhood, Peter Elliott, Richard Lowery, Ian Hylands, Yuhou Cheung and Piers Turnbull.

Find out how to join the other RedR Rat Racers for this season's finale in London by visiting our website: www.redr.org.uk