Banbury based distributor Chilli Promotional Products is taking part in the 2018 Twin Town Challenge, a charity car rally to Le Touquet.
On Friday 25th May 2018, one hundred cars costing less than £500 each will leave from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire and head to Le Touquet in northern France on the Twin Town Challenge 2018. Over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, the teams will complete a number of fun points based challenges to raise money for Charlbury-based charity SpecialEffect.
Jody Fletcher, Managing Director, says “We’re really excited to be taking part in this event as part of our 10th birthday celebrations, which promises to be great fun while raising a huge amount of money for a really fantastic charity”.
The Chilli Promotional Products team, The Gold Members, is inspired by the film Austin Powers and the car looks “groovy baby”!!
The Chilli team has raised more than £2,300 so far with sponsorship from local businesses, donations and raffle ticket sales and the total is still rising! Chilli Promotional Products have donated some folding frisbees which they will be selling as mementos of the weekend, with all proceeds going to special effect.
If you’d like to help The Gold Members soar past their target of £2,500, please head over to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chillipromotionalproductsttc18 to make a donation!
The Twin Town Challenge is organised by Brendon Cross, who is MD of STL Communications and a SpecialEffect Vice President. Brendon said,
“The sight of 100 cars, 400 people in movie-themed fancy dress, not to mention over 50 volunteers, as they head off to France will be quite a sight to behold. We have a fabulous programme of events in and around Le Touquet including a day at Abbeville circuit and a street party with live bands in the middle of Le Touquet.”
All the costs of the event have been covered by sponsorship, which means that every pound paid in entry fees as well as the fundraising by the teams goes straight to the charity.
The Twin Town Challenge has been a real game changer for SpecialEffect. Most importantly, the charity has already benefitted from the £500,000 raised by the Twin Town Challenges in 2014 and 2016 but this support escalated as the contacts made on the Twin Town Challenge brought wider gains, as Dr Mick Donegan, founder and CEO of SpecialEffect, explains,
“The legacy of each Twin Town Challenge always continues to blossom long after the event itself. We are entirely dependent on donations to carry on our work, so events like this are our lifeblood. We cannot thank the organisers and the Twin Town community enough for their passion and generosity.”
Funds from the Twin Town events have been crucial in enabling SpecialEffect to establish a games room for people with disabilities to visit, to buy new vehicles and to take on more specialist staff to meet the rapidly growing demand for their support and services.
The Twin Town Challenge is taking place from 25-28 May 2018. Find out more at www.twintown.org.uk
For further information about Twin Town 2018 contact:
Jo Sensecall
Marketing Sense, Twin Town Team and SpecialEffect ambassador
07772 085578
jo@marketing-sense.co.uk
Stay up to date:
#TwinTown18, @TwinTown, www.twintown.org.uk
SpecialEffect offers people with complex physical disabilities the opportunity to have a better quality of life by matching, modifying and creating a wide variety of personalised technology to lend to them, opening up new worlds of fun, creativity and communication. SpecialEffect is a registered charity, no 1121004.
www.specialeffect.org.uk
Chilli Promotional Products
01295 269800
jody@chillipromotions.co.uk
www.chillipromotions.co.uk
Published on: May 25th, 2018
