Businesses are being encouraged to take up a charity challenge as a team building exercise to encourage healthy competition between different departments.
The Gingerbread Centre and Swansway Motor Group are looking for 20 teams to sign up to an enterprise challenge hoping to raise £12,000 to fund a part-time family support worker for the charity which supports homeless people.
The Swansway Gingerbread Enterprise Challenge will take place between 19 September and 31 October with teams given £50 to turn into as much money as possible, aiming for each team to reach a fundraising total of £600.
Teams can use as much or as little of the six-week competition to fundraise and can do so through whatever means is safe, ethical and legal, but most importantly fun.
Chris Belyavin, Fundraiser at The Gingerbread Centre, said: “We are delighted to be returning with the Swansway Gingerbread Challenge, this year we want to smash all previous challenge records, encouraging more teams to sign up than ever before to try and raise £12,000 to fund a family support worker to those families we help.
“We’re grateful to Swansway Motor Group for their continued support with the challenge and we’re looking forward to seeing what we’ll achieve this year.”
It is the fourth year Crewe-based Swansway Motor Group, who own Stoke Audi, has sponsored the enterprise challenge.
The previous three years of the challenge have raised £22,000 with fundraising activities including car washes, selling ice creams and blinded-folded drawing competitions.
The £12,000 target for this year’s event would pay for a family support worker for 12 months, working 18 hours a week.
Based in Stoke-on-Trent, the charity provides 24-hour supported accommodation to homeless families in Staffordshire and Cheshire.
The organisation has 33 flats and houses based across two sites in the city, all of which are currently occupied.
Over 20 families are currently on the waiting list for accommodation with two referrals coming in on average each week. These come from all over the country.
Schools are also welcome to get involved in the fundraising initiative.
- For more information or to register a team contact [email protected] or call 01782 973491.
