Sophie Paterson,  Senior Recruitment Consultant at Jenrick Commercial successfully completed the very gruelling course, otherwise known as the Grim8 Night Terror Challenge on the evening of Saturday 4th February (in the snow!!), raising £550 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Here is Sophie’s account of her experience of the Grim8 Night Terror Run:

So we arrived in Aldershot at about 5.00pm on Saturday, the snow heavens had all ready opened and it was coming down thick and fast (slightly horizontal too).  It was freezing, but we made it onto the start line with only a little bit of moaning!

On the start line they informed us they had cut out the deep water parts because they were frozen solid and the health and safety risk was apparently too high!  As they announced this at the start line it was met with a massive BOO from the crowd.  I have to say despite the snow and how cold I was, I was quite disappointed we weren’t going through the deep water parts…

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The voting poll has now closed for the ‘Helping Hand Initiative’, with voting reaching levels that we have never seen before.

In all, 892 votes were cast across the three worthy causes and we received in excess of 2,000 visits to the Jenrick Blog, since Tuesday. This clearly shows how passionate people have been about helping these excellent initiatives and how keen they have been to share the page links with others. Thank you all so much!

Congratulations go to Andy North, who won 50.9% of the votes, who will receive £1,000 from Jenrick to go towards his amazing fund raising efforts, which are explained in more detail below.

As part of the Jenrick Helping Hand Initiative, Kevin nominated Andy North who will now receive £1,000 from Jenrick to go towards his bid to raise £50,000 for Forces Children’s Trust and The Soldier’s Charity as he attempts to push his body to the absolute limit. (more…)

Following on from the successful 2011 Jenrick Charity Calendar we have already started planning for the 2012 edition.

A poll was set up with five possible themes for the next calendar allowing members of public to vote for their favourite and we are pleased to announce that the winning theme is… (more…)

Thank you to all of the clients, contractors and associates of Jenrick who entered our charity photo competition for this year.

As most of you know, the theme for the competition was simply called ‘Your Britain.’

National award-winning Photography Company, Media Wisdom kindly judged the photos, as well as Xerxes Music for providing the mellow soundtrack to accompany each slideshow. (more…)

As a company, Jenrick IT has always been very active in supporting both our local community and charities that touch us personally as individuals. One of the schemes we run internally, on a half yearly basis, is called “Helping Hand” where our company gifts £1,000 to a deserving cause.

Any one of our staff who has been touched by an emotive and sad situation that has occurred within their life or someone they know, is able to bring this to the attention of our company. Each case is considered on its merits and then the staff vote to decide where they wish the money to go.

Above gives you a flavour of the environment our staff work within and hopefully goes to explain the reasoning behind the decision I took when a highly unusual situation occurred with one of our contractors recently. (more…)

Congratulations to Kerry Mumby from Jenrick Engineering who nominated Gosset Ward Special Baby Care Unit for the October 2009 Helping Hand incentive.

Gosset Ward is located within Northampton General Hospital specialising in Neonatal Intensive Care for premature babies and babies who need close care in the first few days of their lives.

Kerry’s nephew was born premature at 29 weeks and was immediately admitted to Gosset Ward who cared for him for his first 11 weeks of life. Gosset don’t just save the babies, they support parents through difficult times. The nursing staff provide parents with an incredible amount of support, guidance, shoulders to cry on, hugs and laughter.

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Leanne Thornewill recently completed a 40 mile walk from Keswick to Barrow for Cancer Research UK, raising over £1,500.

View a selection of images at the foot of this page.

Leanne, who works within the Engineering division of Jenrick at the company’s Burton on Trent office, confirmed several months previous that she and a group of friends would be entering this gruelling challenge on Saturday 9th May to help raise money for Cancer.

Leanne explained why she decided to undertake this event;

“I set myself a time of 10 hours. This is a famous walk completed each year by thousands of people to raise money for different charities.

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Thank you to Les Phillips who nominated the Philippine Community Fund for Jenrick’s Helping Hand Charity Initiative. Les already supports this charity personally and wanted to give it a real boost by nominating it for the £1,000 half yearly award. (more…)