May 2024: Thank you from Suffolk Mind

by Suffolk Mind Team | 01 May 2024

This month, we’d like to say a big THANK YOU to all of these fantastic businesses and individuals who have helped us raise vital funds for Suffolk Mind.

A&B Glass Group

Thank you A&B Glass Group for sponsoring our annual A Walk of Glass and Fire / The Amazing Lego Walk on Sunday 19 May!

A Walk of Glass & Fire / The Amazing Lego Walk walkers

Thank you to our amazing fire, glass and Lego walkers who completed the challenge in our annual A Walk of Glass and Fire / The Amazing Lego Walk on Sunday 19 May!

Bosmere Skip Hire

Thank you to Bosmere Skip Hire for giving us use of their skip for our annual A Walk of Glass and Fire / The Amazing Lego Walk on Sunday 19 May!

Crane Ipswich

Thank you Crane Ipswich who made a very generous donation of $4,000 dollars during Mental Health Awareness Week!

EPPH

Thank you EPPH who held a delicious bake sale and raised £330. They even took the bake sale on the road to ensure their engineers got to enjoy the goodies too! The team said: “The staff at our Ipswich branch have baked some lovely cupcakes, sausage rolls, cookies, pasties and much more to support the bake sale.”

Gallagher Ipswich

Thank you to Gallagher in Ipswich who hosted a bake sale, raising £157 for Suffolk Mind. This is amazingly being match-funded by Gallagher which takes the total to over £300!

Highway Assurance

Our friends at Highway Assurance are avid fundraisers for Suffolk Mind and have raised more than £7,500 in the past 24 months! This month we were there to thank them for the most recent £2,015 raised from their fishing competition, The Barrell Memorial Match, at Barham Lakes. Thank you so much!

Ipswich Rugby Club

Thank you to Ipswich Rugby Club who raised £525 from their raffle on their Club Memorial Day in April.

Klipspringer

Thank you Klipspringer for their generous £150 donation to Suffolk Mind!

Knowles Fleet

Thank you Knowles Fleet for their fabulous £167 donation following their delicious bake sale! The team said: “The Knowles team cooked up a huge spread of cakes and savouries that Paul Hollywood would be proud of, and we can safely say, it was a very enjoyable way to raise money for our charity of the year!”

Lee Graham

Thank you Lee Graham at RWSfm who hosted a 24-hour radio show during Mental Health Awareness Week in aid of Suffolk Mind. He’s raised more than £750 and is no doubt giving his voice a much-deserved rest!

Meghan Whincop

Thank you to Meghan for raising £167 from her birthday raffle, and Happy Birthday!

NFU Mutual

Thank you NFU Mutual who donated an amazing £3,254.50!

Pitkin & Ruddock

Thank you Pitkin & Ruddock for their continued support and for using Mental Health Awareness Week to boost donations for their Three Counties, Seven Piers giving page!

Pop Chorus

Thank you Pop Chorus for providing such fantastic entertainment for our annual A Walk of Glass and Fire / The Amazing Lego Walk on Sunday 19 May!

Prominent

Grace and Symone from Prominent ran the Colchester Stampede 10k on Sunday 28 April in aid of Suffolk Mind. They raised a fantastic £305! Thank you both for your support.

SuffolkForward Network members

Thank you to all of our SuffolkForward Network members for attending our 16 May event and supporting us through their membership fees (special thanks to guest speakers Richard Jennis of Simple Click, Charlotte Giddings of Brownie and the Bean and Clare Taylor of TMJ Interiors).

Suffolk Food Hall

Thank you Suffolk Food Hall for hosting our annual A Walk of Glass and Fire / The Amazing Lego Walk on Sunday 19 May!

Timberwolf

Thank you Timberwolf who used Mental Health Awareness Week to boost donations for their Three Counties, Seven Piers giving page!

The Mariners Freehouse

Thank you to The Mariners Freehouse for hosting a quiz night in aid of Suffolk Mind (and thanks to everyone who donated a raffle prize!) The evening raised £325 and our own Finance and HR teams took part!

TMJ Interiors

Thank you TMJ Interiors for choosing us as a beneficiary for their latest dress down day! They raised £30.77 and regularly support us, it’s so appreciated!

We Prep

We visited We Prep in Stowmarket who have one the most ingenious fundraising ideas we have ever seen! They are e-commerce logistics and fulfilment specialists, and one of their staff members Jenny, noticed around 18 months ago, that a huge amount of stock goes to wastage which could in fact still be used. She explained some suppliers will request stock is marked for waste if it has a short life remaining or ask that returned products are disposed of due to the high costs of the supplier calling them back to other parts of the world.

Jenny therefore decided to set up a ‘donations shop’ on site for staff and each quarter, as a team, they vote for the charity who will receive the proceeds. This has been great for the environment and reducing waste (and in turn the costs to the company of waste collection) but has also been a huge support to staff during the cost-of-living crisis, and to the charities who benefit.

We are lucky to have just received £509.26. The We Prep team were so inspired to learn this could enable our 0300 line to run for 20 hours, enabling us to pick up an average of 250 calls. We look forward to working with them again as we approach the Big Give Christmas Campaign later in the year.

West Suffolk College

West Suffolk College invited us to their sustainable fashion show in Bury St Edmunds and we raised £128.83 through our bucket collections on the day! Thank you so much.

Fancy fundraising yourself? There’s all sorts you can do on our events page or, if you have your own fundraising idea, get in touch with the team.

by Suffolk Mind Team