The proceeds of this journey for charity will go to Villa Pardoes, a unique building with high-quality vacation units, especially for children who have a life-threatening illness. Together with their families, they can enjoy a free vacation in one of the eight theme units, like Snow White, Barbie, Knights and Space. The facilities are adapted to the special needs of the children.

To run a place like Villa Pardoes is, of course, expensive and they are for a big part depending on donations. That's why the BTO Team will do everything to collect a wonderful amount of money for Villa Pardoes, by asking for sponsorships for this project. Your support to the BTO Challenger project means automatically more money for Villa Pardoes.

How can you help?

You can support Villa Pardoes, and you don't have to bike the ocean or climb to the roof of the world. You can simply send your contribution to our foundation bankaccount:

IBAN Number: NL10ABNA0510182453

BIC Number: ABNANL2A

Make it out to:
Stichting Biking the Ocean at Tilburg.
On behalf of the little patients, thanks!

The proceeds of this North Atlantic Crossing will go to Villa Pardoes a unique building with high quality vacation units designed especially for children with life threatening illnesses.

The children who attend Villa Pardoes face challenges of their own and on a daily basis, enduring life threatening illnesses that affect them as individuals and all those in each family so the idea that someone will bike 3700 miles across the North Atlantic Ocean in aid of Villa Pardoes is a heart warming and much appreciated initiative by all those involved.

Each year over 400 families with children with life threatening illnesses from the Netherlands and Flanders come for a care free vacation and enjoy the required facilities and associated treatment. Whilst at Villa Pardoes the children are offered free entry to the Efteling, Beekse Bergen and Toverland, plus many independent companies in the area open their doors for free exclusively to guests of Villa Pardoes such as the bakery Piekfijn where the children enjoy the experience of baking a cake and cookies, in addition they can watch professional Soccer clubs train and spectate during actual matches, there are nature walks, workshops or even a foot reflex massage to enjoy.

We at Villa Pardoes wish Alex and Pete the very best of luck for their crossing and would like to say that they will be in our thoughts each and every day as though we were biking along with them. Good Luck!

If you would like to be a sponsor or if you would like to more information on Villa Pardoes please look here www.villapardoes.nl.