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LKQ Euro Car Parts backs Ukraine effort
- 17/08/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
LKQ Euro Car Parts colleagues have raised more than £35,000 to support the relief effort in Ukraine, funding the purchase and delivery of two ambulances, with efforts ongoing to buy more. Spearheaded by Dawid Kozlowski, an inventory analyst at the business’s Tamworth headquarters, teams from across the country [...] -
AutoRaise reveals rally sponsorship
- 11/08/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
AutoRaise has announced it has two supporting sponsors and nine pit stop sponsors for its AutoRaise Rally. The 2022 AutoRaise Rally of West Midlands and Mid Wales will take place 21-23 September, comprising 13 stages over 370 miles. The automotive charity has revealed that Synetiq, Egertons Recovery Group and [...] -
Ben service to ease money worries
- 26/07/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
With one in five people in the automotive sector struggling to keep up with inflation, industry charity Ben is offering free access to its Life Coaching service. The service is designed to help individuals better plan and budget, while devising strategies to control their finances now and in the future. Rachel [...] -
Steve Plunkett’s marathon fundraising effort
- 06/07/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Steve Plunkett will run the London Marathon on 2 October to raise money for The Norfolk Hospice Tapping House. His fundraising efforts come hot on the heels of a record-breaking Plunkys All Stars charity match, which raised £17,500 for Brain Tumour Research. Plunkett is hoping to raise more than £4,500 for The [...] -
Ben brings back its Big Breakfast
- 23/06/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
Automotive charity Ben has announced that it is bringing back the Big Breakfast initiative for 2022. The week-long event will kick off on World Mental Health Day, 10 October, with companies invited to encourage their team, customers, friends and family to bring, bake or make a breakfast spread to help raise [...] -
Copart launches new well-being initiative
- 11/05/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Copart is marking Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 by announcing the launch of a new Mental Health First Aider programme in partnership with St John Ambulance. Mental Health Awareness Week run from 9-15 May, with loneliness this year’s theme. As part of this, Copart is expanding its range of health and [...] -
Ben launches new loneliness initiative
- 09/05/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Automotive charity Ben is marking the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week by shining a light on loneliness. It has said that, following two years of disruption and periods of social isolation caused by the pandemic, loneliness has in itself become an epidemic, which has also increased social [...] -
Plunky’s All Stars nears charity target
- 12/04/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Steve Plunkett’s Plunky’s All Stars Football match is nearing its fundraising target of £17,000. The event is raising money for Brain Tumour Research. Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer yet historically just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been [...] -
Drivers urged to tread carefully
- 22/03/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The rising cost of living could see motorists rejecting new tyres in favour of cheaper, part-worn tyres described by safety experts as ‘death traps’. Research conducted by the UK’s leading independent road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart, has revealed that nearly 40% of the 1,000 drivers surveyed said they [...] -
TrustFord supports Prince of Wales Hospice
- 02/03/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
TrustFord has provided The Prince of Wales Hospice with a Ford Transit Courier for them to use for their important work for the next two years. The funding of the van, worth £6,000, along with road tax, livery and servicing has been provided by the TrustFord Trust which stepped in when the charity reached out for [...]