Category: Supporters
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Smurfit Kappa Supports Us Again
A community isn’t just made up of the people who live in it. It’s also about the businesses who are based in it – and how they interact with the society around them can have a huge impact on the community as a whole. That’s why we are very pleased to have Smurfit Kappa as…
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Christmas With Court Collaborations
How Court Collaboration is Developing Christmas Spirit in Nechells Christmas Day at free@last has become something of an occasion – and it’s very special to us for many reasons. We could not open our Christmas Day lunch to so many people without the financial donations given to us by our supporters, one of which is…
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Tresaith Residential Trip
“Don’t worry, I’ll drive” said Matt. Matt Chapman kindly offered to drive our second minibus to transport some of the children and team members to our Tresaith Residential in May. Without his time and kind offer, some of the young people wouldn’t have been able to go. Thank you so much Matt.
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Lighting Strikes
Jason Perry, owner of Electric Centre Ltd, is another on of our amazing and generous supporters, who enable us to to change children’s lives, by donating our centre lightbulbs. This amazing act of generosity has enabled us to use the money, we would have otherwise had to spend, directly on the children. Here is Jason…
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Walk on Fire!
As part of our fundraising efforts, several members of BNI Sunrise stripped off their shoes and socks and bravely walked on fire! These brave men and women put themselves through pain (a little unexpectedly too!) and walked through 600 degree charcoal, with the flames burning around us. We absolutely love the commitment of our amazing…
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Golf Day Raises £6000 For 2023 Residentials
The 2022 free@last golf day has raised an amazing £6000 for free@last’s 2023 summer residentials. Matthew Southall (of Southall Harries Commercial Fleet Insurance) and Steven Quance (of Steve Charles Quance Jewellers) have been running this event for many years which has allowed the funds raised to be put towards our free@last residentials in the summer…
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Urban Network helps to combat digital poverty with free@last
Free@last has had a boost to its available hardware at its Community Centre in Nechells in the form of 4 new highly specified PCs from the Birmingham office of Urban Network an IT Support and Cyber security consultancy. “We’ve created a drop in hub where locals of all ages can get access to computers and…
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Rachel Schieber climbs the Three Peaks in 24 hours for free@last
Rachel Schieber is climbing the Three Peaks in 24 hours for free@last for her birthday. The National Three Peaks Challenge involves climbing the three highest peaks of Scotland, England and Wales, within 24 hours. The total walking distance of the Three Peaks Challenge is 23 miles (37km) and the total ascent is 3064 metres (10,052ft). The…
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Battle Of The Bands 2022 raises money for free@last
Battle of the bands raises money for free@last On Saturday 9th July the battle of the bands event took place at Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club. The fundraiser was in aid of EPIC, University Hospitals Birmingham and free@last . A massive thank you to all involved, especially Greg Palethorpe of Bowbrook Financial Planners for organising the…