{"id":85231,"date":"2025-08-22T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85231\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:48:11","slug":"wetherby-whaler-sponsors-charity-bike-ride-for-mnd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85231\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetherby Whaler sponsors charity bike ride for MND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Wetherby Whaler is sponsoring the Ride for Lee &amp; Yorkshire MND event, a 100-mile circuit beginning and ending at its Guiseley restaurant and stopping at each of its other Yorkshire locations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The route includes Wetherby, York, Tadcaster, Pudsey and Wakefield, and aims to raise \u00a32,500 for MND awareness and support.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Paul Fowler, organiser of the ride and one of six cyclists completing the full route, said: &#8220;We\u2019re riding more than 100 miles to every Wetherby Whaler across Yorkshire not just to raise funds, but to shine a spotlight on the struggle faced daily by people living with MND, like Lee.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/crowdfunding\/paul-fowler-606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Funds raised<\/a> will be split between the MND Association\u2019s West Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales and York branches (30 per cent) and direct support for Lee &#8216;Lenny&#8217; Brannan, who was diagnosed with MND earlier this year (70 per cent).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ryan Dean, senior manager at Wetherby Whaler, said: &#8220;Community is at the heart of everything we do at Wetherby Whaler, both in the kitchen and beyond.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;When we learned of Lee\u2019s story and the Ride for Lee &amp; Yorkshire MND, we were delighted to sponsor the ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wetherby Whaler is sponsoring the Ride for Lee &amp; Yorkshire MND event, a 100-mile circuit beginning and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-85231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}