Nūl Peace Ride 2025
30 June - 22 July 2025
The Nūl Peace Ride 2025
On 30 June 2025, we will embark on the 22-day Nūl Peace Ride 2025 — a 1,000km cycling journey across Sri Lanka, dedicated to building trust, knowledge, partnerships, and raising funds to support Nūl’s mission of creating sustainable communities. This journey combines 12 days of endurance cycling with 10 days of immersive community engagement, creating a powerful blend of physical challenge and meaningful connection.
Accompanied by cyclists and community workers, each kilometre will fuel our fundraising efforts, with a goal to raise AUD $150,000 to support the first phase of the Nūl Pilot Project. Throughout the ride, we will engage in meaningful community activities with diverse local groups, including Tamil, Sinhala, Malayaga Tamil, Muslim, Christian, Vedda, and other communities.
The ride will foster intercultural dialogue, celebrate cultural heritage, and strengthen unity across regions, all while advancing Nūl’s broader goals of social justice and empowerment. At its heart, the journey is about building trust and long-term connections that lay the groundwork for lasting collaboration and a more just, inclusive future for Sri Lanka. The Peace Ride has been completed successfully twice before, though on a smaller scale. We are now working to establish it as an annual initiative.
Building on a Proven Legacy
The Peace Ride has been successfully completed twice before, each time growing in scope and impact. In 2014, desh Balasubramaniam and Evan Marginson cycled unassisted 700km across Sri Lanka to engage with local communities and deepen understanding of their post-conflict needs. In 2016, a team of seven cyclists undertook a 1,000km journey from Mirissa to Jaffna, raising funds to support Ondru’s Aal Project.
This year, with Nūl established as an independent entity, the Peace Ride has expanded in scale and ambition. The 2025 ride will cover over 1,000km, starting in the southern province, following the East Coast, and culminating in the North. Along the route, riders will actively engage with diverse communities participating in community activities that foster intercultural dialogue and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Sri Lanka. This journey strengthens connections and promotes unity, reinforcing Nūl’s commitment to inclusive, community-led development.
Together, let’s raise AUD $150,000 to bring this bold, community-led vision to life.
Join Us in Building a Community-Led Future
The Nūl Pilot Project will transform a 50-acre site in Sri Lanka into a vibrant, sustainable community hub—led by local people and grounded in education, economic opportunity, and equity. From design to management, it creates real jobs, builds skills, and drives lasting social impact.
Prioritising women and youth, and embracing an intercultural and multi-ethnic approach, Nūl is fostering a Together Sri Lanka — a future built on unity, respect, and shared opportunity.
Partner with us through the Nūl Peace Ride 2025. Your support funds community-led training, cultural revitalisation, and eco-friendly infrastructure—honouring tradition while embracing innovation.
Support the Nūl Pilot Project — invest in people, place, and possibilities.
An Overview: Nūl Pilot Project
The Nūl Pilot Project is the foundational step in realising Nūl’s long-term aspiration to create an interconnected, innovative, and sustainable community hub in Sri Lanka. Anchored in the principles of education, economics, and equity, this initiative will be supported by funds raised through the Nūl Peace Ride 2025 to launch the first phase of this transformative effort.
This community-led initiative will directly engage and employ local people through participatory design, hands-on training, and the co-creation of essential infrastructure. It marks the first tangible step in developing a 50-acre site into a vibrant centre of social connection, economic resilience, cultural revitalisation, and environmental responsibility—a living example of development that is both inclusive and sustainable.
More than construction, this pilot is a catalyst for community-partnered transformation. It centres the voices, knowledge, and aspirations of local people, investing in their skills, livelihoods, and leadership. Nūl offers a grounded, inclusive, and scalable model—responding to lived realities and laying the foundation for long-term, locally driven change.
You can be part of this peace building ride!
Join us on this inspiring journey across Sri Lanka as we ride together for peace, healing, and connection. You can be part of it in many ways — ride with us for a section, host an event, share a meal, visit along the way, or support us through donations, partnerships and fundraising.
What’s the impact you will help create?
By supporting the Nūl Peace Ride 2025, you are directly contributing to the launch of the Nūl Pilot Project—a bold, community-led initiative that brings together traditional knowledge, sustainable design, and social inclusion to build a 50-acre community hub in Sri Lanka.
Your support will help raise AUD $150,000 to fund five interconnected components—each rooted in local leadership and designed to foster long-term impact through employment, training, cultural revitalisation, and ecological responsibility.
Support the Nūl Pilot Project — invest in people, place, and possibilities.
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A beautiful, hand-built space blending vernacular traditions with modern design will be created by the community. Led by local knowledge and facilitated by architects, designers, and engineers, this space will host storytelling, cultural connection, and art & craft-making, while enabling participants to learn practical skills for future employment and community engagement.
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Activities will seek to engage with people from multiple sectors of the local communities. This could include sports-based activities to bring isolated school groups together, or theatre practice for breaking down barriers.
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A small-scale production unit will be established to create bricks, roofing, and other structures using natural, locally sourced materials. Community members will be trained in eco-friendly construction methods—developing practical skills that support future economic initiatives and local entrepreneurship.
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Two pilot eco-villas will be built by trained local workers using community-made materials. This phase will provide hands-on training and paid employment for 18 people, demonstrating that sustainable housing can be locally led, culturally immersive, and architecturally beautiful—a model that blends design excellence with local knowledge to celebrate place, people, and possibility. This component will also be supported by volunteers, international university placements, and fellowships where appropriate, fostering knowledge exchange and capacity building.
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8–10 local people will be trained and employed to manage and maintain the site—including hospitality, land care, and community programming. This will lay the foundation for long-term, community-owned enterprises and sustainable livelihoods. Their ongoing employment salaries will be funded through future partnerships and funding secured following the pilot’s success.m description
In a world that feels increasingly divided, it is more important than ever to facilitate connection across local and international divides. The cycle trip makes this possible, creating safe spaces to come together to listen and learn.
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AUD $150,000
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