FareShare, the UK’s biggest surplus food redistribution charity, has opened a new warehouse in Milton Keynes to provide an estimated 370,000 meals to people in need over the next year. FareShare South Midlands, based in Bletchley, is being run in partnership with SOFEA, a charity which works with young people… Read more »
TIP’s ‘Fat Bottomed Boys & Girls’ successfully complete toughest ever charity bike ride in Portugal, raising over £70,000 for charity
A combination of climbing nearly 13,000 feet, and cycling into headwinds of 35 km/hr over three days, were the main themes of the toughest but most memorable of the six TIP charity bike rides so far. In May, the team of 45 cyclists from the UK and Irish transport industries… Read more »
Go-Ahead Engineer swaps Camberwell for Lusaka to deliver mechanical training in Zambia
Go-Ahead’s Senior Vehicle Engineer, Robert Watson, has completed his first placement with Transaid’s Professional Driver Training programme. The voluntary secondment delivered an intensive mechanical training course designed to help improve road safety and reduce the number of transport-related deaths in Africa. The placement was part of Go-Ahead’s wider commitment to… Read more »
Scania and TDR Transport support horsepower of a different kind…
Scania (Great Britain) Limited has lent its support to EquATA, a not-for-profit therapy and personal development organisation, with the donation of a 40′ container equipped with a full set of racking. EquATA, which is based in Grafton Underwood, near Kettering, Northamptonshire uses the natural environment and selected horses to provide… Read more »
Ford & Slater apprentices go head-to-head in second charity truck-pull
Twenty Ford & Slater apprentices are set to take on their second head-to-head charity truck pull event, taking place on September 1st, 2019 at Bruntingthorpe Airfield. Last year fourteen apprentices from across the Group put their strength to the test, pulling two 7.5T DAF CF trucks the length of the… Read more »
Fowler Welch driver trainers deliver HGV training in Tanzania
Two Fowler Welch driver trainers, Paul Hughes and William Robertson, have completed a fortnight’s placement at Transaid’s Professional Driver Training project at the National Institute of Transport (NIT) in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. A core part of Transaid’s road safety work, the project aims to harmonise driver training best practice… Read more »
Pall-Ex pledge to support Armed Forces
Pall-Ex has pledged to support ex-military personnel with jobs, training and fundraising after signing the Armed Forces Covenant. The logistics giant has demonstrated its commitment as an ex-Forces employer, by providing roles and access to training and qualifications at its hub in Coalville, Leicestershire. In addition to signing the covenant,… Read more »
Pedal power carries big-hearted Mercedes-Benz Vans cyclists to a new charity triumph
The Mercedes-Benz Vans ‘chain gang’ have done it again, pedalling the gruelling 62 miles between Manchester and Blackpool to net another cash windfall of more than £20,000 for Cancer Research. Their magnificent effort in Sunday’s (7 July) sponsored cycle means that over the last three years riders representing the brand… Read more »
Leyland Trucks riders peddle home to raise £16,000
More than 110 novice riders and cycling enthusiasts from Leyland Trucks raised in excess of £16,000 for St Catherine’s Hospice and a number of other Lancashire charities, after covering a combined 8,000 miles in their 2019 Factory to Festival challenge. This year’s annual event saw riders take on one of… Read more »
FareShare opens new warehouse in Kent to provide 480,000 additional meals to people in need each year
FareShare has relocated its Kent Regional Centre to new premises which will enable the warehouse to provide an additional 480,000 meals to vulnerable people each year. Thanks to funding from Asda, FareShare Kent has relocated to a new, larger warehouse in Ashford Business Park, which is twice the size of… Read more »
