End of Year Report 2025

In an exciting and successful 2025 for Two Wheels for Life, we built on our celebrated auctions and events, launched new initiatives and partnerships, and engaged even more motorcycle fans to support our mission.

Despite challenges, including reductions in US aid to many African countries and a major fuel crisis in Malawi, we provided life-saving transport for healthcare programmes across Africa through Riders for Health. From event attendees and auction winners, our incredible volunteers, riders, racing teams, MotoGP™, IRTA and the FIM, we want to say thank you!

Read on to hear about our jam-packed 2025!

Keith Huewen interviews Carl Fogarty at our April dinner at Bike Shed Moto Co. Shoreditch.

We were excited to formally launch our partnership with Bike Shed Moto Co. in May, collaborating on event evenings featuring motorcycle personalities such as Carl Fogarty, Elspeth Beard, Vanessa Ruck, and Charley Boorman, plus a MotoGP™ End of Season Review headlined by Mat Oxley, Peter Bom, and Keith Huewen.

Harvey “Harvey Rides Bikes” King with the London Met Police at our Safe Riding Motorcycle Course.

Bike Shed Moto Co. also hosted our series of Safe Riding Motorcycle Courses with the London Met Police, which allowed attendees to get to know the people behind the badges, pick their brains, and develop their confidence, and raised over £2,500 thanks to 35 attendees across three events. 

A family of fans enjoys their MotoGP™ Experience Day at the Monster Energy Grand Prix of Catalonia.

We kicked off the start of the 2025 MotoGP™ season in March with a full slate of our exclusive MotoGP™ Experience Days across the race schedule. We provided 1800+ attendees with behind-the-scenes paddock access, raising over £110,000.

2025 World Riders Champion Marc Marquez on-stage at our live auction for the Dutch TT, offering up one of his signed Ducati Lenovo Team polos for bidding.

In June, we teamed up with the TT Circuit Assen to celebrate their historic 100th anniversary by kick-starting the celebrations with 1,000 tickets being available to fans for the annual MotoGP™ Experience Day, which included a pit-lane walk. The centenary celebrations concluded with two star-studded auctions held on the Motul stage on Thursday and Saturday evening. The combined activities raised in excess of £52,000.

Donna Leonard, Head of Events for Two Wheels for Life, stops for a photo with a few of the winners of our Experience Days auctions at the 2025 Grand Prix of Spain, at the Circuito de Jerez.

Throughout the MotoGP™ season, we offered our online auctions where motorcycle fans could win unique MotoGP™ experiences, including being honorary guests of a MotoGP™ team. Each unique package gave fans exclusive access behind the scenes of MotoGP™ and the opportunity to see the riders up close as they prepare for the race weekend ahead, all whilst raising vital funds for Two Wheels for Life.

Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™ team members Alex Rins and Fabio Quartararo on stage with Two Wheels for Life’s Michael Hill at the 2025 GP of Champions.

In May, a new format was introduced for the 2025 British Grand Prix MotoGP™ with the launch of the GP of Champions. Over 500 race fans had access to the MotoGP™ paddock from 14.00 – 19.00 for opportunities to see the latest machines, rub shoulders with the likes of Marc Marquez and Pedro Acosta, and an exclusive pit walk in the evening. Two Wheels for Life ambassador, Michael Hill, hosted live moto-memorabilia auctions and interviews with riders from all classes of MotoGP™ weekend. When the weekend was finished, we raised over £152,000.

The crowd look on in the main tent at the ABR Festival.

In June, we held our first-ever auction for the 2025 ABR Festival with The Girl on a Bike, Vanessa Ruck and The Nod Podcast’s Ben Bowers hosting the proceedings. Thanks to attendees, the generous individuals and brands who donated auction items, and support from the adventure bike riding community, we raised over £30,000 in one night.

Jen Smith, Events and Volunteer Organiser at Two Wheels for Life, with volunteers Tim Teale (left) and Martin Newman (right) at the Malle Mile event in Lincolnshire.

July saw us host fundraising activities at two amazing motorcycle events in the UK. First up was the exciting WorldSBK Round at Donington Park, where we held a rider concert and raised over £23,000 from our live auction. Up next was the one-of-a-kind Malle Mile Festival at the stunning Grimsthorpe Castle, where the motorcycling community once again pulled together, raising an incredible total of over £15,000.

Participants at the Big Ride take their corners during some thrilling laps at the Mallory Park Circuit in Leicestershire.

In August, we were proud to host our very first motorcycle treasure hunt: The Big Ride. Thanks to our partners Bike Shed Moto Co., Beeline, Yamaha, and Alpinestars, we invited motorcycle fans from all over the UK to venture through the English countryside, take on scavenger hunts and challenges, and get a chance to ride with big names from the world of motorcycling, including MotoGP™ legend Randy Mamola and former British racer Niall Mackenzie. The Big Ride concluded at Leicestershire’s Mallory Park for laps of the track, and the chance to join all the fun of Classic Bike Trackdays’ Festival of Motorcycling.

Racing fans could bid to win memorabilia like this Marc Marquez signed racing polo.

And finally, in December, we closed out the year with our online Christmas racing memorabilia auction featuring over 100 new lots, making it our biggest-ever festive auction! The items on offer included team merch signed by your favourite riders, unique parts straight from MotoGP™ machines, multiple Yamaha Motor Racing signed 70th anniversary clothing, and much more.