14 May 2010
14th May 10
On Saturday 19 June at the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, keep an
eye out for The Ellen MacArthur Trust’s fundraising boat ‘Challenge EMT’.
On board will be relatives of young people who have sailed with the Trust, raising money and promoting the work of the Trust by competing in the Charity Challenge.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management set up the Charity Challenge ‘race within a race’ to help promote the four preferred race charities, the Ellen MacArthur Trust, Macmillan, Prostate UK and Breast Cancer Care and to encourage other competitors to race for charity. SailTime has kindly donated each charity a boat to try and win this year’s Charity Challenge.
Our Team EMT consists of="
Vince Bradbury
Vince is the uncle of Nathaniel Fletcher, who came sailing with The Trust for the first time last year on a four day IOW summer trip from Alder Hey Hospital Liverpool. Nathaniel will be returning to
sail in the Round the Island Race this year with the Trust, so there’s sure to be some extra competition for our Charity Challenge team to beat the young people! " Vince, who lives in
Hampshire, is ex-army and is also the Mayor of Whitchurch.
Siobhan Stefaniw
Siobhan is the mother of Michael Stefaniw who was treated at Great Ormond Street for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in 2001. Michael first sailed with The Trust in 2004 and has since returned several
times, sailing up the Thames and under Tower Bridge during our Round Britain voyage last year. Siobhan has competed in the Round the Island Race before. She is Interim Director of Nursing and
Clinical Development at Whittington Hospital NHS Trust and lives in London.
Ross Bye
Ross Bye is the father of Emily Bye, who first sailed with the Trust in 2007. Emily has since returned to Bradwell Residential Dingy week, and also a bit of the Round Britain Voyage last year.
Ross lives and works in Dorset.
Emma Stokes
Emma Stokes is the sister of Vicky Stokes, who first sailed with The Trust in 2007. Vicky returned to help The Trust with their summer trips throughout the summer of 2008, and did a leg of the Round
Britain Voyage in 2009. Subsequently Emma volunteered on one of the Trust’s summer trips last year. Emma, who is from Hertfordshire, is training to be an Actuary.
On Saturday 8 May the EMT crew met at Hamble Marina for a day of sail training, in preparation for
race day! Daisy, one of the young people sailing in the race with the Trust also took part in the training. Our crew were joined by triple gold and silver Olympic Medallist, sailor Ben
Ainslie who gave invaluable advice and tips to our competitors. Trust patron Ellen also jumped on board during the day to meet the crew and show her support.
Ellen will be competing on board one of the Trust yachts in the race, against our Charity Challengers, so it will be very exciting to find out who will be crowned Trust champion on the day! On Saturday June 19th you will be able to follow the progress of Challenge EMT, as well as four Trust yachts crewed by young people in recovery from cancer and leukaemia here on our website.
All of Team EMT are raising money for the Trust before their big day, and if you would like to support the Challenge EMT crew, please click here.
The Trust would like to thank J.P. Morgan Asset Management and SailTime for their support.
For more about the Charity Challenge and the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, please visit www.roundtheisland.org.