For the fifth year, the luxurious Whittlebury Hall Hotel & Spa together with the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone hosted eight ‘Muscle Warriors’ from across the UK. The eight successful applicants joined MHF’s annual Porsche ‘Muscle Dream’ Driving Experience Programme on Thurs 18th – Fri 19th June 2015.
Aged between 9yrs – 23yrs, the eight beneficiaries and their families travelled from different parts of the country arriving at Whittlebury Hall. No sooner had they arrived when they were ‘buddied-up’ with their dedicated Volunteer Charity Hosts. After refreshments in the Silverstone Bar, a scrumptious lunch was served in the Bentley Suite followed by a two very special ‘reveals’ in the hotel’s courtyard to the group.
The self-confessed ‘petrol heads’ were also treated to a once-in-a-lifetime’ moment when Lewis Hamilton’s 2014 F1 Championship Car was revealed with the charity’s mascot ‘Ernest’ jumping into the drivers seat!
This year, all the beneficiaries were not only treated to some time on the Porsche Experience Centre track but for the first time, permissions were given for them to experience the world famous Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in full where once again rubber was indeed burned in various Porsche 911’s.
Michael McGrath, CEO of the Muscle Help Foundation, said: “Once again, the sun shone! It was so good to see everyone smiling and enjoying themselves. Huge thanks to our key partners at Whittlebury Hall and the Porsche Experience Centre. And of course to our volunteers, the life-blood of our family charity; you know who you all are! You did us so proud!”
“As always, it is a real privilege for our families to let us in, to entrust us with their sons and to allow us to do all the thinking on their behalf – such a responsibility requires a team who understand and who subscribe to our values as a charity as well as what it means to be a part of our Muscle Warrior tribe.”
“Thank you once again in helping us change lives and give a little hope to our eight VIP’s and their families – each year, the proverbial bar is set a little higher and this year, it was without doubt surpassed. I now have an eye on our 2016 programme! Watch this space!” added McGrath.