Sponsorships

 

GEW Sponsorships and Donations to Charity

GEW regularly supports charities by sponsorship and by direct donation. Although too numerous to mention here, some are shown below.

Dragon Boat Race - Raising Funds for St. Catherine's Hospice

GEW participated in the Dragon Boat Race held at Tilgate Park, Crawley on 9th September 2007. The event helped raise funds for St. Catherine's Hospice.

With generous sponsorship from GEW's suppliers and from the sponsorship collected by our team members and their colleagues, we are absolutely thrilled to have been able to raise £4,158.00 for this vital service in our community. St. Catherine's inform us that this represents one of the largest single amounts a company has collected in Sponsorship for the Dragon Boat Festival to date.

The sun shone on the 4,500 members of the general public who turned up to watch the 35 teams competing and getting very wet into the bargain! Our team was not quite fast enough to place us in the final but all the rowers, and the many other employees and families who came to support had great fun cheering them on. We were pleased to be placed 14th overall. We understand that the event is on target to make at least £45,000 for St Catherine's and that this figure may well reach £50,000 once all the monies have been collected.

The holistic, encompassing and tailored care that St. Catherine's provides really makes a difference to those living with an incurable illness and the people close to them, who also need support.
If you want to make a donation, please visit the website www.stch.org.uk .

 

 

Trans Rockies Challenge for Milo - Supporting The Children's Trust Tadworth

Click here for update, 23 Aug 2007 .

GEW is to sponsor Anthony Gray in the Trans Rockies Challenge for Milo, in support of the Children's Trust Tadworth.

The seven day challenge will start on Thursday 9th August 2007 so there is still time to make a donation or to sponsor Anthony yourself. The links shown below give further information about the event and how to contribute.

The following text has been extracted from Anthony's letter to GEW:

Milo's story (by Antony Gray): Our 6 year old son 'Milo' sadly died very unexpectedly on the 2nd December 2005 from a very rare form of brain aneurysm. He was a fun loving, caring and very thoughtful little boy and we as a family are still trying to come to terms with what happened. As a result we have been trying to help other families and children in similar circumstances in raising money for the charity below. Please dig deep and help us to help them that are unable to help themselves.

The cause: The Children's Trust Tadworth - An amazing hospital that helps with the rehabilitation of children with all manor of serious brain injuries be it from birth, a stroke or a road traffic accident. My aim is to raise funds for vital refurbishment work and specialist equipment that they so desperately need. All donations and sponsorships will be given to 'The Children's Trust' in Tadworth, Surrey, (Registered Charity No, 288018) in the memory of our little son 'Milo'. The Trust have kindly allowed a room to be named in his memory.

The Challenge: Well it's not just a ride in the park. Oh, well yes it is actually, but this park is in British Colombia, Canada and it is a staggering 364,764 square miles. The gruelling seven day challenge, which takes place between the 12 and 18 August this year, covers over 600Km of riding with and amazing 37,000 feet of climbing, that's equivalent to climbing up Mount Everest (29,050 ft) and a quite a bit more, so hopefully there will be lots of down hill sections as well. All of it is at an altitude of over 9,000 ft . My team-mate and I will be riding from 7am to 6pm most days and camping out in the wilderness at night. It is called 'The Transrockies Challenge' and is claimed to be one of the toughest mountain bike races on the planet.

So, please get your cheque book and pen out quickly and write the largest one you can afford and pop it in the post to me. It means so much to myself, Natalie and Olivia to help give some support to families with children that have these terrible disabilities. Please make the cheques out to 'Milo Gray' as we are collecting all the moneys in his account and we will make the presentation of the collected donations to the Trust later this year. We also have set up a BLOG to let you see how the training is going and to keep you informed of events and activities the web address is www.milogray.com (have a look!) We also have a JUST GIVING page at www.justgiving.com/milogray where you can pay by credit card.

Thank you ever so much! Take care now. Please help us to help them.

Antony Gray
Any further question can be answered by E mail which is antony@morphfitness.com Cheques to be posted to: October Hill, 7 The Clares, Caterham, Surrey,CR3 6RW

 

 

UPDATE: 23rd August 2007 We Made it (Antony Gray).

What a brilliant experience with just over 35 hours in the saddle a large tub of butt cream, 552km and nearly 12,000 meters of serious uphill climbing - we came 26th in our category out of 83 that started. We are very pleased with that result. We actually came 2nd from the teams from the UK in our class 80+ and overall 7th from all the teams from the UK in all categories. Not bad for a couple of old gits. Brian and I worked extremely well together as a team each having good and bad days. Luckily, neither of us had any serious crashes apart from a small fall on the rocks for Brian and a slight misjudge of a sharp corner for me we both came through smiling. How fantastic it was to see Natalie and Olivia at the finish line. How good that cold beer tasted as well. I will put some more info and photos up over the next few days. I just want to let you all know we were back safe and sound.
Funds raised so far: £24,020.00

To donate, go to www.justgiving.com/milogray where you can pay by credit card.

 

 

The Aplastic Anaemia Trust - Fighting Bone Marrow Failure.

The Aplastic Anaemia Trust is the only charity in the UK dedicated to supporting sufferers of aplastic anaemia and allied disorders. The AAT is dedicated to funding research and treatment at the centre of excellence, St. Goerge's Hospital in London, and to the support for patients and their families. As a small charity with no government funding they rely on fundraising initiatives and individual donations.

GEW were pleased to support the good work of the AAT.

 

 

Raincatcher Appeal

GEW are sponsoring a pupil from The Warwick School, Amelia Bainbridge, to help raise the £2195 she requires to take part in a group visit to Tanzania where she will work with local villagers in Tabora to build the underground wells necessary to give access to clean water. Last year the school raised funds for the cost of the wells and this year a group of pupils will help to build them. The pupils will also do other charity work during their visit, helping in schools and orphanages.

Amelia has undertaken various ventures including baby sitting, typing, car cleaning and a "Smurf walk". The latter being a 13+ mile sponsored walk from Hassocks to Brighton, dressed as a Smurf.
GEW has pledged to match the total funds she herself raises.

 

 

 

 

Update 1:

GEW donated £2000 to match Amelia's own fund raising efforts for this worthwhile cause. A group of students from the Warwick School will travel to Africa to help build latrines and to work in the local orphanage.


Amelia collecting the cheque at GEW.

 

 

Update 2:

Click here to see Amelia's letter to GEW . It describes the trip and tells of all the achievements out in Africa.

 

 

The Chelsea & Westminster Hospital

- October 2006

GEW were financially supportive of a charity event which benefited The Friends of The Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. £21,000 was raised in total, for the Stroke Unit.

 

 

The British Heart Foundation

- Great Surrey Ride 2006

GEW helped Graham Huish with his fundraising - he successfully completed the Great Surrey Ride in aid of the British Heart Foundation.

 

 

Nutfield Church Primary School

Supporting the local school.

GEW is pleased to be supporting the local village school with sponsorship this financial year. Nutfield Church Primary School is a co-educational Voluntary Aided Church of England School catering for children in the age range 4-11. It is one of the most highly regarded schools in the locality and received a national School Achievement Award in 2003. Early in 2003 an arson attack completely destroyed the Special Educational Needs and Music Room, including all the pupil records and resources (piano, musical instruments, books etc). Although a grant has been obtained for a new building, the school is required to fund a substantial percentage of the re-building costs. GEW donated a sum of £10,000 towards this worthy cause. We are a business who believes in supporting the local community, by using local suppliers, working with local sub-contractors, employing local staff and investing in the future with the local children.