Aztech's Impact on Red Nose Day 2019

The Aztech team will be participating in a 24 hour cyclethon, cycling through the night to try and raise money for Comic Relief: Red Nose Day.

The cyclethon will start 4 pm Thursday 14th March and last until 4 pm Friday 15th March. If you’d like to contribute (and help our colleagues power through!), please click the link below to donate.

We will be updating this post with photos from the day, so keep an eye out for our progress and wish us luck!

Update: We raised £547.30 for Comic Relief: Red Nose Day!

£500 could provide an aspiring local teacher with pre-primary teacher training and support in Tanzania.

Set up and ready to go!

Here are a few highlights from last night:

Dan, Ryan and Sukhie took turns cycling from 6 pm until 2.30 am!

 Michael, Chris and Sean are smashing through the graveyard shift 2.30 am - 7 am

The Aztech Team are powering through!

Sukhie's back for round 2

Sean's back again for round 2

We're in the last hour and Amandeep is seeing us through to the end!

WE DID IT! 24 HOURS CYCLETHON!

Aztech Bake Off

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cake with Chocolate Sprinkles

Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Shavings

Chocolate and Vanilla Sponge Cupcakes with a Buttercream Frosting

Brief History of Red Nose Day

In 1985, Richard Curtis, Jane Tewson and friends came up with the idea to raise money that would change lives in Africa and the UK. On Christmas Day during Noel Edmond's Late Late Breakfast Show, the first ever Comic Relief was broadcast live from the Safawa refugee camp in Sudan.

Then in 1988, Lenny Henry and a group of children in Ethiopia celebrated the first ever Red Nose Day, raising over £15 million. Over 150 celebrities and comedians took part, whilst 30 million viewers tuned in.

In 2017, the British public donated an incredible £76 million, which was used to transform lives across the UK and the world's poorest communities.

Now in 2019, nearly 34 years since Comic Relief first aired, we hope to do our part and raise money for an amazing cause.