NEILL Richards, JCT600 group fleet director, is to lead a team of three colleagues as they attempt to drive 2,300 miles from Bradford, visiting four towers across four countries in four days in a 32 year-old classic Ford Cortina.

Setting off from JCT600’s head office in Apperley Bridge, Bradford, later this month (25 June), the team will drive to The Blackpool Tower, The Tower of London, the Eiffel Tower and finally, after a quick jaunt through the Mont Blanc Tunnel, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, all in a bid to raise funds for JCT600’s chosen charity for 2015, the Alzheimer’s Society.

Richards said;

“Every year, we hear of colleagues undertaking amazing feats in the name of charity and the fleet team wanted to come up with something fitting and really memorable to raise funds for Alzheimer’s Society.

“We have hijacked my trusty old Cortina 2.0GL – a 1983 fleet favourite – which is currently going through our workshops with lots of tender loving care needed on the bodywork and mechanicals ahead of its mammoth continental road trip.

“We are calling it the challenge of a lifetime – four middle aged blokes attempting to drive over 2,300 miles in an old Cortina with no back up convoy!  We are hoping that taking on such a crazy feat will encourage colleagues, suppliers and friends to dig deep and help us reach our fundraising target of £2,000 for Alzheimer’s Society.”