Tenax sponsors veterans’ charity Pilgrim Bandits’ English Channel rowing challenge
Tenax sponsors veterans’ charity Pilgrim Bandits’ English Channel rowing challenge
We were pleased to sponsor Pilgrim Bandits, a charity helping injured military and blue light personnel, in its inspiring fundraising challenge rowing across the English Channel, from Poole to Cherbourg and back again.
Setting off at 5am on 14th July from Poole harbour, a group of injured and amputee military and blue-light veterans rowed 66 miles across the busiest shipping lane in the world to Cherbourg. In France, the oars were taken up by another group of military veterans and ex-service personnel, who completed the return crossing, arriving back in Poole on 16th July.
This incredible challenge was not only an amazing personal achievement for all of those involved, it also resulted in a new Guinness World Record for the first group of amputees to cross the English Channel.
About Pilgrim Bandits
Pilgrim Bandits is a charity supporting military and blue light veterans. Funds raised go towards carrying out its incredible work, which includes:
- Organising expeditions;
- Applying for grants to provide specialist equipment, such as wheelchairs;
- Providing training courses for employment and personal development;
- Health and wellbeing services, including therapies and treatments to improve physical and mental wellbeing.
Rowing the Channel is the latest in the charity’s long list of mentally and physically challenging expeditions, which have included kayaking extraordinary distances, jumping from aircraft, running races and trekking inhospitable terrain. In the spirit of its mantra, ‘always a little further’, these adventures push injured veterans to achieve what they didn’t think possible, helping to restore their independence and self-belief.
“We were pleased to support the amazing work of Pilgrim Bandits by sponsoring its incredible rowing challenge across the English Channel,” says Tenax’s Managing Director, Andy Hughes. “Congratulations to everyone involved on such a fantastic achievement – and a new world record!”
Find out more about Pilgrim Bandits.
Tenax sponsors Pilgrim Bandits’ trek to Everest Base Camp
Tenax sponsors Pilgrim Bandits’ trek to Everest Base Camp
Last year we sponsored the charity, Pilgrim Bandits, in a record-breaking fundraising challenge – an epic trek across the Himalayan Mountains to Everest Base Camp.
Established in 2007 with the help of members of the Special Forces, Pilgrim Bandits organises adventure expeditions, social events and health and wellbeing funding for military and blue light veterans. In the spirit of its mantra ‘always a little further’, each expedition is physically and mentally challenging, helping participants build confidence in their individual abilities and cultivating a feeling of team camaraderie as they undertake an epic challenge together.
The charity raises funds for its expeditions and grants to provide specialist equipment and wheelchairs for injured ex-military and emergency services personnel. It also provides training courses to help veterans into employment and provides health and wellbeing services, including therapies and treatments to improve physical and mental wellbeing.
For this challenge, the group of Everest Base Camp trekkers comprised able-bodied, disabled, and injured military veterans and blue light service personnel, including single and double amputees, as well as a member suffering from MND. This was an amazing feat of endurance and a record-breaking challenge, as the group became the largest group of disabled people ever to reach Base Camp.
And if that wasn’t impressive enough, one of the Pilgrim’s members, Hari Budha Magar, who is a former Gurkha, went one further and summited Everest – breaking another world record by becoming the first double above-the-knee amputee to reach the top of the world’s highest mountain.
Tenax’s Managing Director, Andy Hughes, said: “We were pleased to support this impressive challenge. The charity does amazing work with injured military servicemen and women and seeing what those who took part in the expedition have achieved is incredibly inspiring.”
Find out more about Pilgrim Bandits.
Ten Guiding Principles for International Project Management
Andy Hughes, MD of Tenax lists his top ten guiding principles for international project management
- Sustainability – Assess the environmental, ethical, economic, legal and political factors associated with a project and its geographical location.
- Social Impact - Consider the positive impact a project can have on the wider community.
- Cultural Complexities – Embrace diversity and harness the benefits that it will bring to the project.
- Stakeholder Engagement - Ensure that the project creates an environment where all voices are heard.
- Communication – Communication is absolutely key to successful Project Management.
- Operational Controls – Create a management structure that is unique to the project and applied for its objectives.
- Leadership – Be versatile and lead through collaboration and engagement.
- Financial – Financial planning will be of critical importance to Project cash flow.
- Strategic Alignment – Use strategic thinking to manage risk and utilise opportunities.
- Project Legacy – Legacy must be built from the outset to be truly realised.
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Andy Hughes joins ICPMA
"ICPMA is delighted to welcome Andy Hughes of Tenax Ltd to our association. ICPMA promotes working by business alliances and using innovation to drive quality, and as such the synergy between ICPMA and Tenax is one of strength."
Christina Stoltz ICPMA President 2019-2021.
“It is our belief, that everyone stands to benefit as we embrace the diversity of thoughts, ideas and ways of working that an International network of professionals can bring. Our commitment to the ICPMA, is conducive to achieving best industry practice and an inclusive project environment”.
Andy Hughes
ICPMA is a unique worldwide organisation that spreads best practice in construction and project management throughout its membership. Initially founded in 2001 in Cannes, the ICPMA is a modern and dynamic forum, providing opportunities to network with other professionals and academics and to engage in new business and research on a global basis.
ICPMA is a network of Construction Project Management professionals experienced in working internationally. We seek to create tangible practical and intellectual benefits for members by initiating and networking better ways of managing construction projects for clients and the whole professional delivery team.
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Knowledge Based Management
Tenax is an organisation that has an innate interest in international research, geopolitical affairs and global events, which contributes to the well informed and knowledge based expertise offered to both our projects and clients.
This ethos is essential to ensure that we sustain our ability to adapt and change to the complex International business environment.
As a Standard Corporate Member of Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, we play a proactive role within the diverse network of researchers and experts, shaping international affairs. We are immensely proud to be a Corporate Member and to be part of an Institute that describes it mission as follows;
“To help governments and societies build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world”. Chatham House. ‘Our Mission’. https://www.chathamhouse.org/about/mission
Tenax embrace the positivity that international research, collaboration and knowledge enhancement, ensue, which from a project perspective, are utilised to structure ethical, sustainable and intelligence-led solutions across the globe.
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