My name is Wes Richens and I am a Member of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment. I am currently training to ride in the 2023 Tour de Rock Cops for Cancer. Tour de Rock is a two-week bicycle journey in which a team of police officers and other emergency services personnel cycle 14 days and 1200 km from the north end of Vancouver Island to the south end to raise money for childhood cancer research and support services at the Canadian Cancer Society. This year’s tour is September 23 to October 6. One of the responsibilities each rider takes on is asking their community for support through fundraising.
I have been a Member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 7 years, and it has always been my goal to ride in Tour de Rock. It is a great cause and is a chance for me to give back to the community I police. Each rider is also paired with an Honorary Rider, who they ride for. Honorary Riders are kids who have been touched by cancer in some way, either having been diagnosed themselves or having a sibling who has been diagnosed. 20 percent of the money we raise helps send kids who have been diagnosed and their siblings to Camp Goodtimes so they can have a chance to just be kids and take some of their focus away from their battle with cancer. The other 80 percent goes to pediatric cancer research.
Since Tour de Rock began in 1998, the Tour has raised more than $27 million dollars and sent almost 1,000 kids to Camp Goodtimes.
I believe that these children are the communities’ children; we teach, coach, parent, police, mentor and raise the children we come into contact with. When these children become sick, it is the responsibility of the community to help fight the battle. Please join me in my endeavour to raise awareness and raise money for pediatric cancer research and support programs for kids and their families living with cancer. It takes a community to fight cancer - we do this so no child has to fight it alone.

Please make a donation on my behalf and help me reach my fundraising goal! Donating online is secure and it saves the Canadian Cancer Society money by reducing administrative costs. 

Every donation takes us one step further to pedal our way to end childhood cancer. Because one child with cancer is one child too many. 

Thanks for your support!