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Big Breakfast cooks up a storm
- 09/11/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Ben’s Big Breakfast 2022 has been another major success for the automotive industry charity, Ben. Over the course of one week, the automotive community again banded together to make, bake, and sell breakfast food to show support and raise lifesaving funds for Ben, with businesses across the country tucking into [...] -
Ben Ball makes more tables available
- 17/10/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
Automotive charity Ben has announced that it has released more tables for its flagship blacktie event, the Ben Ball, which takes place on 7 December at Old Billingsgate Market. Due to demand, Ben has released a selection of Silver tables for 10 people to allow more of the industry’s leading figures to [...] -
Fix Auto Mid Devon takes giant charity strides
- 15/09/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The team at Fix Auto Mid Devon has raised more than £3,000 for the British Heart Foundation. Colleagues raised the money by walking a kilometre for each year the 50-years their Crediton company has been in business. Toby Wood, Steve Gale, John Wiggins and Malcolm Street managed to complete the arduous trek [...] -
TrustFord delivers for RNLI
- 01/09/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
TrustFord has helped raise £4,647.88 for its chosen charity, the RNLI Portrush. Dermot Rafferty, regional director, TrustFord, presented the cheque to the RNLI on Monday, after the Causeway Coast Ford Fair 2022, which raised £3,647.88. A further £1,000 donation was added by the Causeway Coast Ford Fair [...] -
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 [...] -
Support shown for Ben automotive charity
- 22/07/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Messe Frankfurt, organisers of the UK Garage and Bodyshop Event, has presented a cheque to Ben for £1,063, following a highly successful partnership at this year's show. The amount was raised through a combination of corporate donation and individual donations that Ben received from attendees at the show who took [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
Ben Ball confirmed for 2022
- 31/03/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Automotive industry charity Ben has announced the Ben Ball will be back this year, taking place at Old Billingsgate Market on 7 December. The 2021 Ben Ball took place after Covid restrictions were lifted and quickly sold out as the automotive community seized the chance to gather together in person and celebrate in [...] -
Charity football match on fundraising target
- 01/03/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Plunkys All Stars has nearly reached 50% of its fundraising target of £16,000 for Brain Tumour Research. Thanks to the continued support of the industry, £7,810 has so far been raised for this worthy cause, with support coming from Modern Insurance Magazine, Junair, Car-O-Liner, Merseyside Car Hospital, AGM [...]