When Lesley Vaz passed away in 2006 from a brain tumour, she left behind many happy memories for her husband, Tom and sons Christopher (aged 13) and Luke (aged 10). She fought hard and against the odds to leave us those memories and relied heavily on the South East Cancer Help Centre.

The Centre provided Lesley with support through counselling and therapy and helped her to build a friendship network that carried her and allowed her to smile through the pain. At the end of 2009, Luke, who is now 14 years old, decided to do his Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award and chose Scouting for his volunteer challenge and cycling for his fitness. All very straightforward as his dad, Tom, is the Cub Scout Leader and Assistant Cub Scout Leader Des Donohoe is a very experienced cyclist and captain of the historical Anerley Bicycle Club.

To cut a long story short, Tom, Des and Luke made a New Year resolution to get fit and cycle from Santander on the north coast of Spain, into the Picos de Europa mountains in the Sierra Cantabria. Twelve days of some challenging terrain. Especially for young Luke! We also decided to raise funds for the Centre and have set a huge target of £5000. After all as members of the Scouting community we have promised to do our best.

Follow us at our blog :- http://the-picos-ride-for-cancer.blogspot.com/ and please dig deep - every pound counts!