Local man John Assheton of The Mullet Press based in Milton, Banbury has, for the last week, been undertaking a massive cycling challenge from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for local charity Banbury Young Homelessness Project (BYHP).

John and his wife Amanda have been supporters of BYHP for some years and as Amanda had previously undertaken a challenge for BYHP, John decided to go for the challenge known as #LEJOG, cycling some 874 miles in an attempt to raise £10,000 for the charity. 

Having left Land’s End on Tuesday 12th April John hopes to make it to his final destination within 10 days, arriving on Thursday 21st, beating Amanda’s 11 day record! 
After 6 days John has already reached nearly £4000 for BYHP which will help provide support to many young people across Banbury and the surrounding area, as BYHP requires over £200,000 a year to support them with Family Mediation, Counselling, Housing Advice and Employability Training.

To add to the challenge, John is also managing to find the time to write some poetry describing his exploits and why he is doing the challenge and it can be seen at www.themulletpress.co.uk. 

If you would like to donate to support John in his challenge to help BYHP please go to

Tim Tarby-Donald, Head of Business at BYHP said: 
“Supporters like John and Amanda are invaluable to the work we do supporting Young People locally – it is amazing that people want to push themselves to the limit to help us continue our work. Thanks so much to
them and the kind people who have donated” 

Banbury Young Homelessness Project (BYHP) are delighted to announce a new contractual relationship with Oxfordshire Adult Learning, provided by Abingdon & Witney College, which is funded by the Skills Funding Agency, to deliver the next two cohorts of the Unlocking Potential Employability Programme.

The contract between Abingdon & Witney College and BYHP which is worth up to £10,000, was recently agreed and signed following an application process to the Oxfordshire Learning Network in February and on confirmation of a successful bid, BYHP has joined the UK Register of Learning Providers and has been implementing all of the elements to provide training services to Oxfordshire Adult Learning.

The two courses will take place over three full days for five weeks 19th April to 19th May and 21st June to 21st July and anyone over the age of 16 who is Not in Education, Employment and Training is eligible to apply to take part.  16-18 year olds are supported by the charity and should get in touch if interested in this initiative, however, the funding is specifically focused on enabling those who are 19 years old and above to move forward in their lives.