SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:
GARY LINEKER OBE
*Strictly Limited to 60 guests.
DATE: Thursday 16th May, 2024
12.30 pm – 4.00 pm
LOCATION: Elystan Street Restaurant
Co-hosts – Geoff Thomas (CL Patron)
Ian McMahon and Phil Howard
GARY LINEKER OBE
Gary, the most recognisable face in sports broadcasting, hosts the BBC’s most famous football show in the UK, Match of the Day. He also covers major men’s international tournaments and the FA Cup, which he won as a player and is uniquely positioned to use his on-field background, including winning the FIFA World Cup Golden Boot, to bring out the best in other analysts such as Alan Shearer and Micah Richards.
VENUE
43 Elystan Street,
Chelsea, London, SW3 3NT
*Elystan Street has held one Michelin Star since 2017*
PHIL HOWARD
Co-owner of Elystan Street and highly respected culinary figure known as The Chef’s Chef.
Phil and Ian are riding this year’s Tour 21 to help raise £1M for Cure Leukaemia.
GEOFF THOMAS MBE – Cure Leukaemia Patron
Geoff Thomas is a former professional footballer who played for Crystal Palace, Wolverhampton Wanderers, and Nottingham Forest, among other clubs. In the 1990s, England capped him nine times.
In 2003, a year after retiring from the game, he was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia (a form of blood cancer) and given just three months to live. After a stem cell transplant from his sister Kay and treatment from Professor Charlie Craddock CBE, the co-founder of blood cancer charity Cure Leukaemia, Geoff entered remission from the disease in January 2005.
Ever since Geoff has dedicated his life to raising vital funds to help other blood cancer patients now and in the future. In 2005, he set up the Geoff Thomas Foundation and was awarded the Helen Rollason Award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Geoff cycled the Tour de France on three separate occasions, and in 2017, he took on the biggest of all his challenges in the saddle.
In June 2021, Geoff was awarded the MBE for his efforts in respect of cancer charity fundraising.
HELP SUPPORT THIS GREAT CAUSE
SPONSORSHIP AND TICKETS
HEADLINE SPONSOR
Table of 10 people
As a Headline Sponsor, you will receive a table for ten guests and the opportunity to have one of our special guests sit at your table.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Headline branding on all Long Lunch publicity (Pre and post), media and banner/ backdrop.
- One of our Guest Speakers will sit at your table for the afternoon.
- Pre-event reception with special guests.
- Group Photograph with the special guests.
- Premium positioned Table of Ten
- A glass of champagne on arrival
- Four Course Lunch
- 5 bottles of wine on your table
- Entertaining interviews with our special guests
- Auction
- £4,950
- To book – Click here
- If you have any questions, please email Ian McMahon
OTHER SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
RECEPTION/ DRINKS SPONSOR
1 table – 8 guests
You will enjoy the benefits below as a Reception Drinks sponsor at our Long Lunch.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Pre-Event VIP reception with the special guests
- Branding on all Long Lunch publicity (Pre and post), media and banner/ backdrop.
- Group Photograph with the special guests.
- A glass of champagne on arrival
- Four Course Lunch
- Four bottles of wine on your table
- Entertaining interviews with our special guests
- Auction
- £3,500
- To book – Click here
- If you have any questions, please email Ian McMahon
TICKET PACKAGES
Platinum
Table of 8 guests
As a Platinum Table of Eight, you will enjoy all the benefits below.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Pre-Event VIP reception with the special guests
- Group Photograph with the special guests.
- Premium positioned Table of eight
- A glass of champagne on arrival
- Four Course Lunch
- 4 bottles of wine on your table
- Entertaining interviews with our special guests
- Auction
- £2000
- To book – Click here
- If you have any questions, please email Ian McMahon
Given the unique and exclusive nature of the lunch, the following tables are also available.
Please let us know the size of the table you wish to book. Due to limited availability, bookings are made on a first-come-first-served basis.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Group Photograph with the special guests.
- Premium positioned Table.
- A glass of champagne on arrival.
- Four Course Lunch.
- Wine on your table.
- Entertaining interviews with our special guests.
- Auction
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1 x table – 6 people @ £1,500 (3 bottles of wine on the table)
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1 x table – 5 people @ £1,250 (3 bottles of wine on the table)
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6 x tables – 4 people @£1,000 per table (2 bottles of wine on the table)
- To book – Click here
- If you have any questions, please email Ian McMahon
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
Enjoy all the benefits as part of a prominently positioned table, a pre-event drinks reception with our star guests, and the opportunity to have a photo with Speakers and co-hosts.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Pre-Event VIP reception with the special guests
- Group Photograph with the special guests.
- A glass of champagne on arrival
- Four Course Lunch
- ½ bottle of wine per person
- Entertaining interviews with our special guests
- Auction
- £250 per ticket
- To book – Click here
- If you have any questions, please email Ian McMahon
ITINERARY – subject to change
- 12.30 pm: Guests arrive and check in.
- Drinks reception
- Ian Grundy (MC), Ian McMahon (MC), Geoff Thomas, Phil Howard
- Lunch
- Geoff Thomas. Interview
- Raffle
- Gary Lineker – ‘A discussion with’
- Auction
- 4. 00 pm: Facility closes.
Thank you for being so supportive.
We both attended a recent training camp in Mallorca, preparing for the Tour 21 challenge.
ABOUT
in June 2024, we will tackle The Tour 21 on behalf of Cure Leukaemia, alongside 23 amateur cyclists as we look to complete the entire Tour de France route one week ahead of the professionals.
This will be the most demanding, physically and mentally challenging event of our lives and well worth it.
Starting in Tuscany, Italy, The Tour 21 will take place from Saturday, 22 June – Sunday, 14 July and will tackle all 21 gruelling stages and 3,500km (2,200 miles) of the Tour de France route – one of the world’s most gruelling sporting challenges which will see the team tackle over 52,300 metres of elevation across the 21 stages – the equivalent of cycling up Mount Everest six times.
The Tour 21 is Cure Leukaemia’s biggest annual fundraising event.
Each rider is set a minimum fundraising target of £30,000 to raise over £1M collectively.
The money raised will be invested in the national Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP), which has been solely funded by Cure Leukaemia, the UK Charity partner of the Tour de France, since January 2020.
TAP is a network of specialist research nurses at 15 blood cancer centres in the UK’s biggest cities. This network enables accelerated setup and delivery of potentially life-saving blood cancer
clinical trials to run, giving patients from a UK catchment area of over 30 million people access to treatments not currently available through standard care.
Every 14 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with Blood Cancer.
Help the Tour 21 stop the clock.
