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March 2022 – Charity Success

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The staff at Williams Shipping have had a busy month, fundraising for The Murray Parish Trust and Mind. Both of which make up our two headline charities for 2022.  logistics partner 

Mind 

The fundraising event for March saw the staff buying raffle tickets for the chance to win a day off work. This proved very popular – after all, who doesn’t want the chance to win a day off? The total raised by the raffle was £455 and the company matched this, making a total of £910.00 from this first campaign.

Chairman drawing a raffle

 

THE MURRAY PARISH TRUST 

Williams Shipping’s other headline charity for 2022 is the Murray Parish Trust. This year they are organising a “Hares of Hampshire” art trail throughout Winchester and Southampton, with Wild In Art. It will run for 10 weeks in the summer.

As their dedicated logistics partner, we were graced by the presence of the Hero Hare and Sarah Parish herself at our yard in March. The hare sculpture was transported in a vintage convertible. This was a great opportunity to have the Williams Shipping team meet Sarah and have a photo with the hare.
Vintage car

Some of the staff also enjoyed a fun evening in Romsey, choosing the design of our hare. With over 40 different designs, it was a very difficult exercise, but we chose the artist Sophie Handy and her mosaic-designed hare, called “The Wishing Hare”. We met Sophie in March to discuss how our design was coming on.

As it’s called the Wishing Hare based on the Enid Blyton book: The Wishing Chair, Sophie will put some little creatures hidden into the design, for example ladybirds, birds; flowers. Sophie will also include some “wishing” phrases in the design. This will be a lovely feature for children and adults alike once the hares are on the trail.

Sophie walked us through her process for creating her designs – which she is working on in her kitchen. First, she pencils her design on the sculpture, and then she starts adding the mosaic. The eyes and the “wings” are looking complete. The effect was spectacular.

Hare mosaic wings Mosaic eye

April will also see the staff of Williams Shipping and Willbox raise funds for Murray Parish Trust by running a Grand National Sweepstake.

For more information on our charity work, visit our corporate social responsibility page or visit the dedicated charity pages below:

The Murray Parish Trust

Hares of Hampshire

Mind

 

  • I just wanted to say thank you – it was a very challenging site to work at and make delivery to. Your drivers showed courtesy, patience and professionalism throughout the day

    Philip Kingston,
    Kingston Building Solutions

  • Thank you for your assistance, it was very much appreciated and a special thank you to Bob who did a fantastic job.

    Jenny Wilkinson,
    Interserve Defence Ltd

  • We are very happy with the service provided by your company, especially the driver and we will be using your company for any future work.

    Bob Sarkar,
    National Gritting Service

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    Andy Jenner,
    EP Renewable Energies Limited

  • On Behalf of the Environment Agency and the Residents of Romsey and Winchester, I would like to convey our warmest gratitude for the support you provided during recent flooding. Without you we would not have been able to respond as quickly or effectively as we did.

    James A Humphrys,
    Environment Agency

  • We would like to thank yourself and your team at Williams Shipping for all your help last week, your team were great at getting us around and in position where and when we needed to be in spite of some rotten weather.

    Cliff Stonestreet,
    Fully Fused Fireworks Worldwide Event Management

  • Thank you very much for your assistance and I have to say the two crew members on the vessel could not have been more helpful.

    Steve Beck,
    Burgess Marine

  • May I take this opportunity to thank you for an excellent service, could you also please pass on my thanks to all of your skippers who have helped us over the past few weeks.

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    Svitzer UK