THIS YEAR’S CHARITY
Motor Neurone Disease Association
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The MGF Register has been raising funds for various charities since 2006 and continues to do so. A new charity is chosen is voted for by the committee each year from a list submitted by reps and members. This gives us a wide range of causes to benefit from the Register’s support from large charities such as the RNLI to smaller local concerns such as the Norfolk Hospice.
The first charity we supported was for Prostate Cancer Awareness which was run by the late Gary Steele MBE and was a small charity at that stage. Gary joined in with the club as did the MGF racing driver Martin Wills at the first charity event “eFing the Bridges”. This was a road run around the Bristol bridges including both Severn crossings ending up at Dyrham Park near Bath. It was the first attempt at fundraising and we were able to give the charity over £600 as a result.
Since then the Register has supported 13 other different charities and for the first time we will be carrying a charity over a two year period due to Covid 19. For 2020 and 2021, therefore, the charity supported will be Young Minds.
To date the Register’s members have raised over £25,000 for charity and we look forward to being able to raise much more in the future.
We’ll be adding archive details of those charity events to this page.
The charities the register has supported are:-
2006 Prostate Cancer Awareness Chosen by Tim Morris
The first ever MGF Register charity event was called “eFFing the bridges” and took place in the Bristol area around the two Severn Bridges. Finishing at Dyrham Park & House in Gloucestershire the event raised £500.
Additional fundraising was carried out with the help of MGF Racing driver Martin Wills and Gary Steele from the charity.
2007 Parkinson’s Disease Society chosen by Phil & Lorna Brindley, Heart of England
The Charity Run took place in the Cotswolds and ended at Studely Castle raising £500.
2008 Norfolk Hospice chosen by Sean & Claire Rankin, East Anglia
The main Charity event took place in Norfolk with a run from Sandringham to Hunstanton raising £325 which was doubled by Lloyds Bank, thanks to organiser Claire Rankin , a total of £650.
2009 Stoke Mandeville chosen by Rich Stone, South Mids Sportsters
For the first time we held an additional main event, the Arctic Circle Run on the M25 in winter, at night, with the hoods down. Our second charity event, the Steaming Charity Run, held in May added to the pot. It is also the first time we have used the Just Giving website to raise more money in Gift Aid. The two events raised £1027.60 plus £105.77 in Gift Aid on the website and £105 cash donations making £1238.37.
This took us over the £1000 barrier for the first time in our fund raising history.
2010 RNLI Chosen by Adrian Clifford & Andy Phillips – Essex Region
The Register held two main fund raising events for the RNLI in 2010. The first was a repeat of the Arctic Circle Run and also the Essex Run. Most fundraising was done for the RNLI in general but the Essex Run was specifically for the Burnham Boathouse appeal.
Dave Kerley added £750 to the fund by having two white stripes on his MGF signed at various events throughout the year and was our top individual fundraiser.
This year was a record breaker for the register and we raised £3198.13 including gift aid.
2011 Help for Heroes. The MGF Register committee chose the charity from here on by nominations and a vote.
The Register held two main fundraising events for H4Hs in 2011. The Chairman’s run visited Blenheim Palace whilst the new London Tunnels and Bridges run, raised more cash for the charity.
This year we raised £1876.88 including gift aid.
2012 Whizz Kidz
The Register held two main fundraising events for Whizz Kidz in 2012. The Chairman’s run visited Bletchley Park and a Hard Top Relay around the regions and into Europe helped raise the funds.
This year we raised £3472.52 including gift aid.
2013 MacMillan Cancer Support
The main charity events were the Chairman’s run which visited Basildon Park for the “Iliffe House Run”, and in August we joined the MGCC’s Anglia Centre for the second Thames, Tunnels and Bridges Tour. There was also ‘The Adventures of Dave the Bear’ whereby members took a teddy bear called ‘Dave’ on holiday around the UK and Europe which helped raise funds for the charity.
This year we raised £3,887.81 including gift aid.
2014 Age UK
The Chairman’s Charity Run was from the Market Square, Abingdon to the STEAM Museum in Swindon.
In addition to some regional fundraising, we also had ‘Holly’ a special white MGF model which members were invited to take for a spin in their cars to raise funds for AGE UK, ‘Holly’ visited such places as St Georges Hospital London, Ilfracombe Devon and Brown & Gammon showrooms to name just a few.
This year we raised £1,584.20 including gift aid.
2015 Dementia UK
The Chairman’s Charity Run started in the Longbridge area early on the Sunday morning and it was to the Black Country Living Museum. The Black Country Living Museum is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley in the West Midlands of England.
In addition to some regional fundraising, Dave Tynan also raised donations for the charity by printing Car Data Certificateswhich were made available at MGF20 & in Germany on the Niederrhein Tour
This year we raised £1,944.08 including gift aid.
2016 Guide Dogs
A big thank you has to go out to all our members that contributed to Guide Dogs. Representatives from Guide Dogs spoke at our AGM in Abingdon and were present to wave the cars off on the Charity Run.
This has been raised through events during the year but mainly from the local regional group collections held at their events in 2016.
2017 Prostate Cancer
Funds were raised through events during the year but mainly from the local regional group collections held at their events in 2017.
Total raised this year is £1,278.79 including gift aid.
2018 RNLI
This is the second time the Register has supported the RNLI. Funds were raised through events during the year but mainly from the local regional group collections held at their events in 2018.
Total raised this year is £1,133.01 including gift aid.
2019 Brain Tumour Charity
Funds raised principally through the regions local collections and through a main Charity weekend at Wroxall Abbey where representatives from the charity waved the cars off on the run. Also the proceeds of the winter Christmas function raffle were donated. Over £1100 was raised
2020/ 21 Young Minds
Restrictions on events have meant that any charity fundraising has been very difficult due to COVID-19. The decision was taken to extend the Young Minds charity into 2021 in the hope that we could hold more events to raise funds. This proved difficult as the pandemic continued into a second year as well. However, the Register still raised £1497.78 for Young Minds.
2022/ 23 Camphill Well Being Trust and Mistletoe Therapy .
This has been suggested by one of our Regional Reps as the Trust is currently helped his wife with cancer care.
Mistletoe therapy is a complementary therapy for cancer care widely used throughout Europe where it is available in GP practices, specialist cancer centres and hospitals. It has an excellent safety record and its benefits include improved quality of life and well-being for cancer patients. Despite this, it is little known in the UK. It is administered by the Camphill Well Being Trust based in Scotland and the Register raised funds to help.
For more information go to www.mistletoetherapy.org.uk and www.camphillwellbeing.org.uk.
Camphill wellbeing Trust is a registered charity in Scotland no. SC016291.