Cycling For Children In Need

Thank you to all those that came and enjoyed our first off want we hope to be many celebration dinners of last October's Cycling For Children In Need charity ride supporting Variety - the Children's Charity of Victoria a few photos from the evening want a, stunning location at FOYS at Kirribilli on Sydney Harbour thank you to Fi Scott for arranging this.

Happy New Year to all our cyclists & suppoters hope you have a great year!

Cycling For Children In Need celebration dinner

Hi Everyone,

I have asked the lovely Fi Scott to arrange a dinner to help us all celebrate want we achieved this year with our ride raising money and awareness for Variety - the Children's Charity of Victoria I'm sure you will agree it was a huge success except for my own performance coming off a knee injury. Riders from 2024 & 2025 are invited along with St Johns Ambos who attended on the day. Foys sitting on the Sydney Harbour personally I can not think of a better place to be.

Welcome to Foys Kirribilli, nestled within the historic Sydney Flying Squadron, Australia’s oldest open-boat sailing club, with a vibrant history steeped in the legacy of its founder, Mark Foy.

With a fresh and clean take on seafood and bistro classics, our restaurant and bar boast panoramic views of Milson Park and Careening Cove. Whether you're seeking a casual dining experience or planning a memorable event, Foys Kirribilli has you covered.

Join us for an array of weekly highlights, including our mid-week daily specials, trivia nights, meat raffles, live music, and happy hour. Serving as the local club for the Lower North Shore of Sydney, we're a hub of community spirit and good times by the harbour.

Here are the details.
Date: Jan 10th 2026
Where: Foys Kirribilli
Address: Sydney Flying Squadron, 76 McDougall St, Kirribilli NSW 2061
Time: To be confirmed once final numbers are confirmed
Partners: Are welcomed, Bring the kids if want but thinking nothing more embarrassing than hearing mum or dad talk cycling.
Dress: No lycra smart causal please
Costs: Check out the Foys webpage
RSVP. If you can please RSVP to Fi Scott on the Whats App group or vi this Facebook post.

PS also get a brief insight into wants happening in 2026!

Cheers, Wayne

'It was the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,
When what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,
With a little old driver so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the housetop the coursers they flew
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly
That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

I heard a remour that its Fi Scott birthday today. This year Fi completed her first Cycling For Children In Need ride supporting Variety - the Children's Charity of Victoria along with MS Gong ride and VIC 100 well done Fi supporting not only Variety but these charities as well hope you have a great day girl.

Children are our future, so proud we have been involved with Variety - the Children's Charity of Victoria raising funds to help children in need with our cycling group Cycling For Children In Need via our charity ride to Berry over the last two years so far we have raised about 16k thanks to all the riders, support team and Variety - the Children's Charity of Victoria with out you this would not happen.

Today is World Children’s Day, a moment to stand up for every child’s right to feel safe, included, and supported.

At Variety VIC, our mission is clear: We empower children who are sick, experiencing disadvantage, or living with disabilities through life-changing programs that provide medical care, mobility, education and support, to live without limits.

Today, we celebrate the strength of kids across Australia and everyone who helps create brighter futures.✨