When Enfys, who works for the National Patient Safety
Agency, visited UCL Hospital’s open day last December, she never imagined she
would end up winning a brand new bicycle for her husband. In fact, were it not
for the encouragement of her boss, she wouldn’t even have had a go at the
quiz.
“She kept telling me that I had to be in it to win it”
says Enfys, “and I buckled under the pressure and had a go, even though I’m not
usually lucky.”
Both Enfys and her husband are keen cyclists, who enjoy
getting away to Wales and cycling on the coastal path there. Although she
herself doesn’t cycle to work – she’s on a 6-month secondment from her NHS
Trust in Wales – her other half Emanuel does cycles to his work as a
lecturer at King’s College, and he was gutted to find, just a few weeks before
Christmas, that his bike had been stolen.
So when Enfys got the email telling her she had won, she
was stunned. It wasn’t just the winning – the timing could not have been better.
“I couldn’t stop grinning” she said. The new bike, which was kindly donated by
Cycle Solutions Limited, will mean Emanuel can get mobile again – which he’s keen to
do.
UCLH Charity, which runs the Trust’s Cycle to Work Scheme
in partnership with Cycle Solutions Ltd, is working with the NHS Trust to
improve our facilities.