# Local businessman goes wrong way round British Isles to raise funds

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/09/02/local-businessman-goes-wrong-way-round-british-isles-raise-funds/
- Published: 2007-09-02T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Businessman, Nigel Steljes, founder and Chairman of technology firm, Steljes Limited,
has taken the courageous step of swapping his briefcase for a lifejacket in a bid
to raise £20,000 for childhood blindness charity, the British Retinitis Pigmentosa
Society.
Nigel, along with his four-man crew, will spend 25 days at sea going the‘
wrong way round the British Isles’, travelling 3,000 miles in total up the east 
coast of England and Scotland, visiting the Orkney and Shetland Islands, before 
travelling west and onto Northern Ireland. The homeward journey will take in the
Isle of Man, Liverpool, Wales and the Scilly Isles, stopping off in Salcombe before
finishing on the 18th August.

Sponsors of the challenge include Epson, Toshiba, Steljes and Adepteq, but the crew
is appealing for donations to reach their £20,000 target.

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