Community Programme – Programme of Events
February
Fundraising Week - 8th – 14th February
Start the year as you mean to go on and have a raffle, sweep, quiz or cake sale to raise funds for your nominated charity.
Bibby News deadline is 5th February
March
Sport Relief – Friday 19th – Sunday 21st March
Rise to the challenge and do the Mile. – you’ll be joining thousands of people at Mile events across the length and breadth of the country. Choose your challenge – 1,3 or 6 miles – and start raising cash to change lives. What are you waiting for? www.sportrelief.com
April
Spirit Sailing Weekend - 16th – 18th April
Employees get the chance to sail on Spirit to test their sea legs. Sail aboard our sponsored tall ship, Spirit of Fairbridge, sailing from Oban.
Contact the Community Team to register your interest.
London Marathon
Ten employees are running for the North West Air Ambulance this year. If you are interested in running at the same time and you already have a place, join Team Bibby on Sunday 25th April in London.
Bibby News Deadline is 30th April
Submit your fundraising stories, details of volunteering or the good work that people are involved in their local community.
May
Volunteer Challenge Month
While the sun shines and the sky is blue get out and about and give your time to local community and charity projects. Charities are always having supermarket bag packs, summer fairs and fundraisers. Why not get involved.
Dragon Boat Festival – East Anglia
Up to 11 people in a team, raising minimum sponsorship of £600. That works out at £55 per person and you can invite all your friends and family to get involved too.
Contact the Community Team to reserve your place in this fantastic event, great for all the family (team participants must be over 16)
Spirit Sailing Weekend – 21st – 23rd May
Employees get another chance to sail on our sponsored tall ship, Spirit of Fairbridge, sailing from Oban.
Contact the Community Team to register your interest.
June
Dragon Boat Festival
13th June – Chester
20th June – Milton Keynes
27th June – Peterborough
Up to 17 people in a team, raising a minimum sponsorship amount of £800. That works out at just £47 per person, raising funds for their own chosen charity!
You can invite all your friends and family, clients, suppliers, customer, introducers to take part…..
Contact the Community Team to reserve your place in this fantastic event, great for all the family (team participants must be over 16)
July
Fundraising Week - 20th – 27th July
Summer Fairs, Fetes, Sport Days. Raise funds for schools and charities in your local communities
Far Out Voyage – 23rd – 7th August
Aboard Spirit of Fairbridge, this voyage has no fixed itinerary and Spirit will go where the weather takes you, the team onboard will have the opportunity to visit some of the most remote parts of the UK including St Kilda & Taransay off the western Isles or Rona, Fair Isle, & Unst in the far north of the Shetlands. Sailing with young people from the charity, we would like you raise at least £600 to take part in this once in a lifetime experience….
August
Volunteer Challenge Month
Do you fancy giving up a few hours a week to support a local charity or cause? If you are unsure of what there is out there to get involved in, give the Community Team a call and they will set you up with a suitable project to make the most of your skills.
Dragon Boat Festival
8th August – Nottingham
Up to 11 people in a team, raising minimum sponsorship of £600. That works out at £55 per person and you can invite all your friends and family to get involved too.
Contact the Community Team to reserve your place in this fantastic event, great for all the family (team participants must be over 16)
Community Awards Nominations
It is time to nominate your colleagues for their fundraising and volunteering efforts. Community Champions also deserve awards for the hard work and commitment to their role. We also want to know about the strange and wacky events that have taken place too.
Click here for details on categories and how to nominate.
Bibby News Deadline is 23rd August
Submit your fundraising stories, details of volunteering or the good work that people are involved in their local community.
September
1st – 12th September
Kilimanjaro International Fundraising Challenge.
Kilimanjaro is the highest freestanding mountain in the world. Spend 8 days trekking to 5,895 metres, what an unbelievable experience!
Click here for further details
Dragon Boat Festival
11th September - Cambridge
Up to 11 people in a team, raising minimum sponsorship of £600. That works out at £55 per person and you can invite all your friends and family to get involved too.
Contact the Community Team to reserve your place in this fantastic event, great for all the family (team participants must be over 16)
Click here for further details
Great North Run – 19th October
18th – 28th September
Uganda Volunteer Project
Heading to Nangunga outside Kampala to help build and renovate a school for orphaned children. A chance to volunteer and make a huge difference to this African community.
Click here for further details
Operation Christmas Child
Start collecting items to donate to needy children abroad. Your local drop of points can be found on the Operation Christmas Child site. Shoe boxes can be dropped off from 1st – 16th November
http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/pages/where-take-your-boxes
October
Spirit Sailing Weekend – 1st – 3rd October
Last chance to get onboard this fantastic vessel and sail from Oban out in to the open sea.
Jeans for Genes – 1st October
Get your denims at the ready and help raise funds for a great cause
Bibby News Deadline is 15th October
Submit your fundraising stories, details of volunteering or the good work that people are involved in their local community.
Wear it Pink – 29th October
Today is the day to wear pink and be proud.
November
Movember
Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer. Grow the moustache you always dreamed of having but were too vain to give it a go! Raising funds for Prostate Cancer and other men’s health charities www.movember.com
Children in Need
They need your support, any donations are greatly received, giving children in the UK a chance.
December
Community Awards Lunch – 3rd December
There's only one way to get yourself an invite and that's to get involved in the programme...
Click here for more information on Community Awards