Ride & Run to Restore is a fundraising initiative that is organized by The Helping Hand to raise public awareness as well as funds to support life transformation by providing a full cycle rehabilitation programme for ex-offenders.

Our Vision is to transform the lives of ex-offenders through the love of our Lord Jesus Christ into restored and hardworking individuals, reintegrating them back into society as stable and contributing citizens.

The event period for Ride & Run to Restore 2023 is from now to 13 Aug 2023 2359hrs.

This physical segment of the fundraiser will be held on Saturday, 2 July 2023. Details will be emailed to participants 2 weeks before the event.

All contributions will be used for THH‘s rehabilitation and four-fold therapy programme.

• Spiritual Therapy
• Work Therapy
• Social Therapy
• Physical Therapy

The Helping Hand adopts a holistic approach for life transformation by providing full cycle support to ex-offenders, including family counselling, life-skills learning and after-care services. With the support, counsel and work opportunities that we provide through our programmes, we have helped more than 2,400 ex-offenders and many have reintegrated back to society as contributing members.

You can choose to help in one or more of the following ways:

1. Participate in Ride & Run to Restore as a rider/runner/walker to raise funds.
2. Make a donation to show your support for the riders/runners/walkers of this event.
3. Join us as an event sponsor.

You may learn more on this page.

You will need to fulfil the following requirements in order to confirm a slot to ride in the event, find out more on the Race Details page.

You may learn more on this page.

You may obtain this information under your profile by clicking on Donate >> Your profile. Your profile information will show the route that you are signed up for, the number of supporters you have and the donation amount your supporters have contributed to date.

You may also make your donation via cheque.

The crossed cheque should be made payable to “The Helping Hand“ and mailed to
819 Upper Serangoon Road Singapore 534678.

On the reverse side of the cheque, please indicate clearly “Ride & Run to Restore 2022”, name and contact number in order for us to issue a tax-exempt receipt to you.

You may make a donation by clicking on Donate tab. Search for the participant that you would like to support and click on his/her profile. There will be an option to make a donation online via this page. You may also pen a short encouragement message to the participant or share his/her fundraising campaign to your social media accounts like Facebook.

We will send an email notification upon successful registration.

Yes. You may still donate to support Ride & Run to Restore to help our cause. Click here to show your support for our ministry. Kindly indicate “R2TR” in your donation. Thank you.

Please contact us at ridetorestore@thehelpinghand.org.sg or (65) 8160 4639 (Jason Goh) if you did not receive any notification.

Complete your ride anywhere and anytime between 1 June 2022, 12:00am and 31 July 2022, 11:59pm at your own pace.

All participants must use STRAVA to track their activity.

Complete your run or walk anywhere and anytime between 1 June 2022, 12:00am and 31 July 2022, 11:59pm at your own pace.

All participants must use STRAVA to track their activity.

You will receive your entitlements by 1 September 2022.

You can submit your ride, run or walk details by syncing your Strava profile to your event profile for automatic uploads of your ride details.

Riding with a helmet outdoors is mandatory by law. Please ensure that you abide to traffic regulations when cycling outdoors.

You may choose to complete a total of 350km of CYCLING or RUNNING/WALKING as an individual participant or as a team.

Participants should take responsibility for their personal safety and ride/run/walk in a manner that does not endanger themselves and/or others.

Once the total cumulative distance of 350km (minimum) is reached, everyone in the team will receive the event entitlements.

The assigned team leader will have to register as a participant first. He/she will need to fill in the Team Name and complete the rest of the process stated in the registration form. Once payment is made, he will be given team code. The Team Code will be used by the rest of the team members when they register themselves as individual participants. Once all the team members have signed up, the team’s name will appear in the leaderboard.

The registration fee is based on “per participant”. It is not based on per team registration.

Do note that the registration fee is not eligible for 250% tax deduction. This fee will go towards THH‘s fundraiser proceeds.

You may choose to complete a total of 350km of CYCLING or RUNNING/WALKING as an individual participant or as a team.

Participants should take responsibility for their personal safety and ride/run/walk in a manner that does not endanger themselves and/or others.

Once the total cumulative distance of 350km (minimum) is reached, everyone in the team will receive the event entitlements.

There should be at least 2 or more participants in a team.

Participants should take responsibility for their personal safety and ride/run/walk in a manner that does not endanger themselves and/or others.

There is no limit to the number of submissions that you can make, as long as the activity is recorded on your STRAVA app and synced to the website or manually submitted, during the period from 1 June 2022, Wednesday, 0000hrs to 31 July 2022, Sunday, 2359hrs. Please plan your activities in advance so that you optimise your cycling/running/walking activities within this challenge period while staying safe.

Yes, you can have multiple activities within a single day. For example, you can submit once per day or you can also submit 3 times in one day. It is entirely up to you when you wish to conduct your cycling/running/walking activities as long as they are done within the challenge period.

Submissions can be deleted by clicking on the delete icon on your profile page, next to the record. Deleted submissions will be removed from your total distance tracker and the leaderboard.

Yes, you can split up the challenge into multiple sessions.

Please click here for the distance leaderboard.

You will be able to view the distance you have completed from your profile page after logging in here. You may also view the distance that you have completed by searching for your name or Team name in the leaderboard here.

If any submissions are not reflected by the 3rd working day, please email us at ridetorestore@thehelpinghand.org.sg.

It is recommended to download and sign up for a STRAVA account and sync it to the challenge website. Please refer to the guide for the step by step guide on how to link up your STRAVA account. If you do not have a STRAVA account, please create a new STRAVA account.

After registering, participants only need to link up their STRAVA accounts on this website. During the challenge period, just launch STRAVA, hit record, and when you’re done with your outdoors activity, hit finish to save your activity! Your distance will automatically be reflected on the website. If any submissions are not reflected by the 3rd working day, please email us at ridetorestore@thehelpinghand.org.sg.

Cycle, Run and Walk activities can be tracked and submitted for this challenge. Do ensure your activity is of the correct category, as other activities will not be recorded for the challenge.

Yes, you can use a screenshot of your smartwatch for an activity. You may also take a screenshot of the mobile app or website version of the activity tracked using your smartwatch after you synced the activity.

The usage of a STRAVA account is optional and is solely for the purpose of syncing the completed distance for the challenge. You are solely responsible for the personal data that you provide or disseminate via this third party platform, and your personal data may be subject to the personal data policies of this third party platform.

You may follow the following steps:

1. Head to https://www.strava.com/ or download the STRAVA App from the below links:
    
2. Sign up / log in if you already have an account. Do take note of which method you used to sign up / log in, as you will need to link it to the RAC website later using the same method!
   • Facebook
   • Google
   • Apple
   • Email address
3. Click on authorise or enter the necessary information

You may follow the following steps:

1. Log in to your account at https://www.RideToRestore.sg/login
2. Click on upload activity
3. Click on Link My STRAVA Account
4. Click on authorise

Do ensure that the current account logged in is the correct account as the one linked to your phone! Should they be different accounts (e.g. Website linked to Facebook STRAVA, but phone linked to Google STRAVA), you may experience difficulty uploading your activities. If this occurs, please proceed to unlink the current account and relink the correct account.