Three Ballarat teams are set to take part in the Riverina Redneck Rally through New South Wales and northern Victoria in March, driving 3000km in five days to rise money for Country Hope.
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Team Pending Approval, Smokey and the Bandit, Rod and Tyler will all be on the starting line at Coolamon, NSW on Monday, March 15 with directions for that day's drive and no idea how they will eventually make their way to the finish line at Donald, Victoria five days later.
Each team needs to raise at least $2500 for Country Hope before they can participate in the rally, with every cent going to the charity which provides support to rural children diagnosed with cancer and other life threatening illnesses.
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The rally has raised $1.1 million for Country Hope since its inception and will raise at least $175,000 more before additional donations are counted with 70 teams of two set to compete in the 2021 edition.
Team Pending Approval member Tamsyn Gladstone started her involvement in the rally almost three years ago when she filled in to ride alongside her father Darren Gladstone.
After a second rally with her father, Ms Gladstone decided to start her own team with her partner Troy Gleeson for 2021.
Ms Gladstone said cause was worth the drive.
"My stepmother works at the Royal Children's Hospital and we've always talked in the household about kids being unwell. My family is riddled with adult cancer so we thought that with kids and families involved, that's a bit more intense," she said.
Over the last two years, Ms Gladstone and her father have raised almost $8000, but Team Pending Approval is striving to catch up to the teams that raise $30,000 every year and using a raffle to do so.
Mr Gladstone, who is part of Smokey and the Bandit, said he enjoyed the challenge of the rally.
"I like supporting the small towns, some places might only have 30 or 40 people in the town so a rally can really bring money in," he said.
"Especially with young children, usually you have one parent off work so when you get a disaster that hits a family like that, it hurts financially as well so this charity helps with bills or whatever the family needs. For us, it's pretty important that these people have no one else to turn to and this organisation is there to help them."
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