Three weeks to save the Women’s Tour as organiser launches crowdfunding campaign

Race is looking for £100,000 to fill funding hole

Women's Tour stage 4 2022
(Image credit: Zac Williams / SWpix.com)

There are just three weeks to save the 2023 Women's Tour, Cycling Weekly understands, after the race's organiser launched a crowdfunding campaign in the wake of ongoing sponsorship woes.

Organiser SweetSpot is seeking to raise £100,000 through a GoFundMe campaign to meet “ever-increasing organisational costs, as well as a shortfall from sponsorship income”.

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Having trained as a journalist at Cardiff University I spent eight years working as a business journalist covering everything from social care, to construction to the legal profession and riding my bike at the weekends and evenings. When a friend told me Cycling Weekly was looking for a news editor, I didn't give myself much chance of landing the role, but I did and joined the publication in 2016. Since then I've covered Tours de France, World Championships, hour records, spring classics and races in the Middle East. On top of that, since becoming features editor in 2017 I've also been lucky enough to get myself sent to ride my