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HUTCHINGS Vauxhall Centre has been awarded for its work with Rhondda-based children’s charity Valleys Kids. The long-running Pontypridd car dealer was given the award at the annual Arts & Business Cymru Awards ceremony. In a prize-giving at the Wales Millennium Centre, chairman John Hutchings collected the award – saying ‘it is a terrific pleasure for [...]

JCT600 Bradford directors are to climb Britain’s highest mountain later this month to raise money for a local charity. 15 directors will climb all 1344m of Ben Nevis on 24 May, with chief exec John Tordoff leading the challenge. It’s in support of the Bradford Burns Unit, as 2010 is the 25th anniversary of the [...]

WILSONS Auctions has auctioned a 1995 Vauxhall Cavalier 8 times for charity and raised over £3k. This means it is the UK’s most expensive 1995 Vauxhall Cavalier of all! The Telford car dealer ran the auction for the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund. Paul Mallen, general manager of Wilsons Auctions Telford, explained: ‘We have conducted a [...]

DRIVE a snotter of a scrapper, said Hyundai, and raise cash for WOMAC. Sounded pretty good to us, we reckoned. After all, isn’t Bangers4BEN all about driving old cars over zany distances, and raising cash for charity? This would thus be good practice. One Rover Maestro was thus duly delivered. Complete with exposed primer, smell [...]

HONDA car dealer Danos Parpotta is to run next month in the world famous New York Marathon. The Brayley Honda Enfield business manager reckons doing so will raise £2k for charity. Amazingly, Parpotta can’t wait for the huge event. ‘I’m really looking forward to the experience of running in New York, and I’m sure it [...]

PETER Vardy is continuing his mission of strong community support with the launch of a new youth fund. The Peter Vardy Charitable Fund has thus been launched. This has an initial fund of £100,000 – Vardy has pledged to give 10 percent of overall annual net profits to charitable causes. The PVCF is the first [...]

BEN, the automotive charity, is supporting this year’s Great British Duck race, to be held next month! Anyone who gives a £2 online donation can enter the race – and with good reason. There’s a huge £10k prize, as part of a world record attempt. The challenge sees ducks released into the River Thames at [...]

RENAULT corporate account manager Richard Turk is taking on the challenge of a lifetime – climbing Mt Kilimanjaro! The North West man aims to complete the climb in 10 days, raising £2000 for the National Victims Association. This is a charity that helps families who have suffered loss through murder or manslaughter. 34 year old [...]

DAIHATSU car dealer Highweek Garage is off to the garden centre this weekend – in the name of charity. A display of Daihatsus will be shown at Fermonys garden centre in Newton Abbott. Daihatsu will be there as part of the ‘Grown Your Own’ festival, which is raising money for Children Hospice South West. It’s [...]

SUBARU car dealer Mick Wyatt, of Carstins Subaru, will next week compete in the London-Paris cycle run. The three-day ‘Tour de France’ will see the Solihull car dealer cover 300km – all for charity. Wyatt is raising money for the Meningitis Trust. This comes after his own son died from a rare form of the [...]

CAR dealers who take on multiple business roles have a sympathiser from one of their suppliers. Justgoodcars.com chief Colin Mathieson directs the car classified site in the week… … but, at weekends, is an RAF Squadron Leader! This is why the classified site is supporting national Armed Forces Day on Saturday 27 June. And also [...]

FERRARI is to auction the last-ever F430 off the line this Sunday, to help raise money for charity. RM Auctions will handle the sale of the final F430 at the Leggenda e Passione sale. All proceeds will go towards the Abruzzo charity fund This has been set up to help rebuild the region worst hit [...]

AUTOMOTIVE industry charity BEN has announced job cuts – due to both the recession and rising demand for its resources. New car sales down nearly a third mean the car industry cannot maintain a high level of contributions to BEN. This has seen income decline by 10 percent over the past 12 months. Even more [...]

DAIHATSU car dealer Conders Garage Ltd has supported a fundraising run by a children’s charity. The Free Kicks Foundation raised over £3500 – by visiting all 92 English Football League clubs… in 92 hours! Charity founder Steve Thorpe undertook the huge challenge, in a Daihatsu Materia loaned by the Peterborough car dealer. Alastair Hayden from [...]

MURKETTS of Stapleford has run a course teaching local women how to ward off road rage attacks. The Vauxhall car dealer ran the self-help evening in support of Cancer Research UK’s ‘It’s a girl thing’ campaign, meaning there was a charitable side, too. Course content covered all the basics that could leave women at risk, [...]