River Rally Road Trip

08/05/2025

We may have had some issues yesterday with ‘The lesser’ Audi TT, but the chateau was worth the wait. What an amazing place. Day of rest today before heading to Rouen tomorrow. 👍

07/05/2025

07/05/2025

River Ralley in full swing.

06/05/2025

Day one of the River Rally Road trip complete ✅

And we're off! Day one of the River Rally road trip is officially in the books – and what a start it was!

We set off bright and early from The Crown in Thorpe-le-Soken, full of excitement. After a scenic and slightly chaotic drive to Dover — with Burgy managing to get lost en route — we caught the ferry and made it safely over to Calais.

From there, it was a smooth-ish ride to Dunkirk, with plenty of laughs, honks (especially for the Inbetweeners car, which is already turning heads!), and thankfully, no major breakdowns.

All of this is in aid of a very special little girl – River, who’s just two years old and living with cerebral palsy. We’re on the road to raise vital funds for her ongoing treatment and therapy, giving her the best possible start in life.

Tomorrow we’re rolling through Belgium and onto Reims – more miles, more mischief, and more memories to come.

Massive thanks to everyone supporting us so far – every like, share, and donation helps River’s journey in a huge way.

Let’s do this!



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09/11/2024

Iʼm raising money to Raise money to help the beautiful ‘River’ on her next stage of life. We hope to raise enough to fund at least Two therapy trips.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

04/11/2024

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/RiverRally?utm_term=2RMgDkQVy

Iʼm raising money to Raise money to help the beautiful ‘River’ on her next stage of life. We hope to raise enough to fund at least Two therapy trips.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

04/11/2024

River was born unexpectedly just over 10 weeks early in Sri Lanka due to her Mummy experiencing an abruption of the placenta. River weighed 3.5 pounds and was in NICU for the next month due to complex health complications including developing epilepsy and experiencing a brain bleed grade 4. At two months old and weighing 5 pounds and defying the odds, River flew home to England.

Within two weeks of coming home, River developed hydrocephalus and needed a lifelong shunt inserted into her head to save her life. In the last 2 years she has had a number of hospital admissions, due to unexplained episodes where she stopped breathing, needing an emergency shunt revision due to it getting blocked and pneumonia to name but a few reasons for her visits.

River lights up the lives of all those around her and for anyone that meets her, as she radiates love. River is growing stronger physically day by day, but due to her complex health needs and developing cerebral palsy she does regress at times, but always bounces back.

River has Quadriplegic bilateral cerebral palsy meaning all her limbs are affected. River is able to roll over and sit up for some time but loses her balance and is unable to catch herself so has to work so hard everyday to build strength to sit, crawl, stand and walk. River is talking and communicating, In fact she has recently been described as the politest, bossiest little lady. As River gets older she becomes more frustrated with not being able to do simple tasks herself. She shouts ‘I can do it Mummy’ & ‘I did it’ celebrating if she can. River has weekly physio to help her gain mobility and strength, at home she will do a minimum of an hour a day physio and in the past year River and her mum ‘Sam’ have made 4 trips to Canada for intensive therapy and 1 trip to Lanzarote for swimming therapy. These trips are massively beneficial but do come at an enormous expense costing no less than £8,000.00 a trip. River is responding so well to all of this and it’s such hard work but she puts everything into her development and her gaining more independence, so now is the time She needs this the most. Thank you so much for helping River on her journey! ✨