Whether large or small, your contributions this week will go directly towards helping people in our industries who are struggling to get by - people like Dev*.
Dev is a patrol and is wife Kulwinder is a homemaker. In 2006 she became very poorly and no one could find out what was wrong with her. They [...]
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Help BEN to support people like Dev
Posted July 20th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
BEN Week at BCA Blackbushe
Posted July 20th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
Staff at BCA Blackbushe are pulling out all the stops for BEN Week. Here’s what they’ve got planned:
they’ll be taking bags of sweets around the auction halls in exchange for donations to BEN;
‘BEN’ cakes will be sold in their canteen;
a raffle will take place;
they are having a beach-themed dress down day for staff on [...]
And the prize for best shorts goes to…
Posted July 19th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
…Jim Laney!
Residents at Lynwood, our care centre next door, enjoyed a parade of summer shorts and knobbly knees! It was a difficult decision, but Joyce decided that Jim in Finance should walk away with the title of ‘Best Shorts’. Well done Jim!
BEN is 105 today!
Posted July 19th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
It’s BEN’s 105th birthday today - marking the first day of National BEN Week!
There’s lots happening this week, so make sure you keep your eye on the blog for updates and photos.
We’re starting off the week with a Bermuda shorts competition at 11.30am - knobbly knee pics to follow!
BEN’s beach-themed calendar
Posted July 16th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
It’s our last day in the office before National BEN Week kicks off on Monday, so we’re busy with our final preparations here at BEN Head Office.
Here’s our plan for the week:
Don’t forget to keep us posted on your activities by emailing info@ben.org.uk, commenting on this blog, tweeting using hash tag #BENweek or simply giving [...]
Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s early BEN Week
Posted July 15th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
Our lovely friends at Enterprise Rent-A-Car are so busy next week that they decided to hold their sumer-style birthday celebrations for BEN a little bit earlier!
Last week they enjoyed ‘Flip Flop Friday’, a charity raffle and ice cream at their summer BBQ.
It looks like they’ve raised about £500 for BEN which is great news!
Citroen’s birthday beach plans
Posted July 13th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
Citroen have been in touch to let us know their plans for BEN’s big 105 birthday celebrations next week.
They’re looking forward to a BBQ and ice cream day (possibly with an ice cream van!), a dress down day (sunglasses essential), departmental WII volley ball competition and a raffle (including sunglasses, watch and wine).
They will also [...]
Get tweeting for BEN
Posted July 9th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
If you’re on Twitter, please make sure you tweet about your plans for National BEN Week by using the hash tag #BENweek.
You can see all the latest #BENweek tweets on our Twitter widget in the right hand sidebar.
And don’t forget to follow @BENMotorCharity!
1.5 weeks to go until BEN Week!
Posted July 7th, 2010 by Cass. Comment (0).
Hi everyone,
BEN Week is just around the corner, so I hope you’re looking forward to celebrating our birthday with us in true summer style!
If you’ve got plans to Hit the Beach with BEN during 19-25 July, please keep us posted and we’ll make sure you are featured on this blog. You can either email eventsteam@ben.org.uk [...]
Time to dig out your flip flops…
Posted June 3rd, 2010 by Warren. Comment (0).
Hey beach dudes and babes,
National BEN Week is a month and a half away now and thanks to all your efforts last year we have decided to run Hit the Beach with BEN again this year.
Last year we had Honda selling Doughnuts, Suzuki wearing flip flops and BCA going all out to convert their Blackbushe [...]