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Sytner Group recently raised £10,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The donation comes from a recently completed initiative that saw the Sytner Group donate £1 for every customer questionnaire that completed after the purchase of a car from the Group. The amount could pay for a Macmillan nurse for 360 hours, helping people living with cancer and their families receive essential ...

Motorpoint has teamed up with Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice to put on a screening of The Greatest Showman in Peterborough this summer. The independent car retailer has been a charitable partner with Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall for the last two years, in which time it has raised thousands for the popular hospice. The screening will take place on Saturday, ...

Close Brothers Motor Finance has exceeded its previous fundraising record and raised £33,500 for Make-A-Wish and Cancer Research UK. For this year’s Close Brothers Charity & Wellbeing Week employees took the opportunity to get active through a series of both individual and group fundraising events. Close Brothers Motor Finance teams across the UK took part in a range of challenging ...

Sytner’s Harrogate Volkswagen has been nominated for the Employer of the Year Award by Stray FM in their annual Local Hero Awards. The dealership is being recognised for its support of local charity Supporting Older People. It has helped the charity with transport and the staff regularly escorts elderly people to their Tea and Talk events. The dealership also provides ...

Three UK automotive industry leaders will be taking on the Epic Thames Waterbike Ride over four days this summer. Between 4-7 July, Jon Wakefield, Volvo Car UK’s managing director, Tim Tozer, CEO of Allianz Partners UK & Ireland and Darren Guiver, managing director of Group 1 Automotive, will water-cycle a 166-mile routein the hopes of raising £300,000 for Ben in ...

Joining Jack is a charity based in Wigan founded by Andy and Alex Johnson after they received the devastating news that their son Jack had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, of which there is currently no cure. As CEO at Cambria Automobiles I was lucky to meet with Jack and his parents recently at our Grange Aston Martin dealership in Birmingham to ...

Sailing and cycling events helped motor industry charity BEN raise £50,000 in one of the organisation’s key fundraising weeks of the year. The second annual Automotive Challenge Cup saw 28 teams race around the Solent to raise cash for BEN, while cyclists pedalled 300 miles from BEN’s head office in Lynwood, Ascot to Paris, all to help raise funds for ...

Sytner Group has raised £27,721 for BEN, via its online auction site, during a year of fundraising. Sytner Group represents 19 brands in over 100 dealerships and supports BEN by donating £1 from every car sold on its website. BEN offers a range of free and confidential information, advice and guidance to help people be Mentally Fit, Financially Fit, Socially ...

  Jardine Motors Group has raised £258,558.63 for Whizz-Kidz in the first year of its Corporate Charity Partnership. The group carried out a series of money-raising events, including dinner dances, sporting events and a casino night. It also auctioned off a fully restored 1982 Porsche 911 SC, which raised £52,000 at the Lancaster Whizz-Kidz Charity Ball. Mark Herbert, chief executive ...

Hyundai is supporting Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, by supplying vehicles for its volunteers in London over Christmas. The charity is taking delivery of 16 vehicles as it prepares for the festive period its busiest time of year. The cars will carry supplies and transport individual guests and volunteers around London, supporting Crisis at Christmas. Crisis at ...