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AROUND THE CITY
We’ll bring you stories from all across Cardiff over forthcoming issues. Here’s a few stories we thought you may find interesting.
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PONTCANNA
Charity cycling challenge is rewarding
When Roger Williams, owner of The Jewellery Studio, Pontcanna agreed to join his wife Debbie on a London to Paris cycling challenge in aid of the NSPCC’s Building Brighter Futures Appeal, little did he know that the trip would take a romantic turn.
Roger was originally going on a Peru trip, hiking to Machu Pichu on the Inca Trail but a knee cartilage problem prevented that from happening. Roger felt that three days of cycling might be easier on the knee!
It just so happened that an engagement ring bought by Julian Draper, a Cardiff man living in Geneva, from the Jewellery Studio needed to be exchanged. The problem was making a platinum ring from scratch, carefully selecting a suitable diamond of no smaller than 0.75ct and getting it to Paris where Julian would be with his fiancée within ten days! As luck would have it, it coincided with the Charity Bike ride, so tucked away in Roger’s backpack and with a suitable bodyguard of Cardiff Ladies, it was delivered underneath the Eiffel Tower! To mark the occasion, Julian and his fiancée enjoyed champagne and Welsh Cakes (carried on the Support Bus, handcrafted in Dinas Powys) to the rapturous applause of the Cardiff cycling group.
“The Jewellery Studio has an excellent exchange policy which can’t be bettered. We aim to deliver anywhere in the world by any means!” laughed Roger. “Seriously, Debbie and I enjoyed taking part in the cycling challenge and hopefully we’ll have helped raise some much needed cash for such a worthy cause. The engagement was a suitable end to the trip seeing as Paris is, after all, the city of love.”
The team, which was made up of 22 women and 6 intrepid men, set off from Greenwich on Thursday 24 September and arrived at the foot of the Eiffel Tower on Sunday 27 September, hope to have raised over £30,000 to help fund a major new child protection centre in Cardiff. The NSPCC’s purpose built Centre for Wales will bring together local services to help children and young people overcome the negative impacts of emotional, physical or sexual abuse. The Centre will also mean the charity can continue the pioneering work of its existing domestic abuse service.
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