Megan Smith

Ultima's Sponsored Cycle & F1 Race for Reading Samaritans

Fundraising for Reading Samaritans
£135
raised of £500 target
by 13 supporters
Donations cannot currently be made to this page
We provide confidential emotional support to reduce suicidal feelings and behaviour.

Story

Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page.

We are excited to be organising our first fundraising events for our new charity partners Berkshire Womens Aid and Reading Samaritans. On Wednesday 6th July we will be running a series of fundraising events at our head offices in Reading. These include:

  • Sponsored Cycle
    Departments across the business will be invited to join and sponsor our cycle on our wellness bikes to raise funds for our charities. We will have 2 bikes on the go at once with the goal of cycling round The Isle Of Wight. Every 15 minutes we will be swapping round volunteers as a team effort to reach our goal.

  • Take an F1 car around Silverstone
    We challenge employees to try our eSports racing simulator to find out!

    For every £5 donation, each driver will get 3 timed laps around one of the fastest circuits on the Formula 1 racing calendar to try and set the fastest time on our leaderboard. The top 3 drivers will go into a prize draw!

Every little helps, we appreciate anything people can give towards our causes!



About the charity

Reading Samaritans are one of about 200 Samaritans branches across the UK and Ireland. Together, we provide a service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, providing emotional support to people experiencing distress or despair, including thoughts that may lead to suicide. Our service is confidential: we dont judge and we dont give advice. We do listen and provide human contact for people, some of whom may be in very great distress. We can be contacted by phone, email, or face to face by dropping in to our centre in Cholmeley Road in the Newtown area of Reading. All our work is carried out by volunteers, but we still have a building to maintain and bills to pay: it costs us around £100 per day to keep running, and we are entirely dependent on donations. Every day our phone rings over 100 times. Your support will allow us to keep answering it. Thank you!

Donation summary

Total raised
£135.00
+ £31.25 Gift Aid
Online donations
£135.00
Offline donations
£0.00

* Charities pay a small fee for our service. Find out how much it is and what we do for it.