Pedalling across the Solent

Mike Boss loves a challenge and his latest fund-raising idea is to pedal across the Solent.

He will be setting off through the busy shipping lanes on 6 June from Stokes Bay, Gosport in a humble pedalo.  

Along with friend and co-pilot Mark Nalder, Mike will be raising funds for Salisbury District Hospital's Stars Appeal, Wessex Rehabilitation Fund, after the Wessex Rehabilitation Centre helped him recover from a serious arm injury five years ago.

No stranger to bizarre charity events, Mike has previously posed nude for a hospice cookbook and dressed as a Victorian lady in a crowd of 25,000 northern football fans.

His attempt at The Great Solent Pedal is a way of thanking the team at the centre for helping him make such an amazing recovery and to help raise awareness of the life-changing effect that the centre can have on accident victims.

For more information on The Great Solent Pedal please visit: www.thegreatsolentpedal.com and if you would like to sponsor the team you can do this via www.justgiving.com/greatsolentpedal.