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Dealers are being invited to join next month’s inaugural bike ride from London to the Paris Motor Show in September to raise money for BEN and Women on the Move Against Cancer (WOMAC). The Motor Show Ride takes on 26-28 September with Motor Trader serving as the media partner. The ride covers 486km in three days, with stopovers in Calais and Amiens, ...

Marshall Motors CEO Daksh Gupta has raised £142,000 for motor industry charity BEN having completed a Skydive last week. It was the pinnacle of a year of fundraising, in BEN’s first ever Industry Leader Challenge event. Gupta, who has a fear of heights, has raised £142,000 so far but hopes this will grow to £150,000 once the final pledges from ...

Two weeks today Marshall Motors chief executive Daksh Gupta will take part in a 10,000 feet skydive in a bid to raise over £100,000 for BEN. The skydive is part of a new BEN annual fundraising challenge for senior executives in the automotive industry. The Industry Leader Challenge sees one individual each year take on a personal fundraising target for ...

Dealer staff from across the UK have been invited to join a new cycle ride from London to the Paris Motor Show in September to raise money for BEN and Women on the Move Against Cancer (WOMAC). The inaugural Motor Show Ride takes on 26-28 September with Motor Trader serving as the media partner. The ride covers 486km in three ...

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 ...

Marshall Motors chief executive Daksh Gupta is to take part in a 10,000 feet skydive in June. The skydive is part of a new BEN annual fundraising challenge for senior executives in the automotive industry. The Industry Leader Challenge sees one individual each year take on a personal fundraising target for industry charity. Once completed they will pass the ‘baton’ ...

David Main, the chief executive of BEN, the automotive industry’s charity, has announced he will retire in July. Main has led BEN since 2009 and is credited with overseeing the restructure and expansion of the charity’s Support Services function, enabling BEN to help more people from the automotive sector and their dependents with a broad range of support and care ...

Motor industry charity BEN is gearing up for 2016 with a raft of events to raise funds and increase exposure for the charity. These include a 300-mile, five-day cycle ride to Paris, the Automotive Challenge Cup, the automotive Bangers4BEN rally and the BEN Ball. The charity aims to double the number of enquiries to its free and confidential helpline, increasing ...

Our partnership with BEN, the automotive industry charity stems from an evening spent at the BEN Ball last December when a beneficiary stood up and gave an emotional address to over 1,000 people. She told the audience how BEN had helped her and her family every step of the way through a life-changing experience. Have you ever seen a room ...