The Box & Charnock Foundation
The B&C Foundation
The Box & Charnock Foundation is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) that raises funds to support charities and good causes.
The Box & Charnock Foundation was founded in 2014, after many years of less formal fundraising for local good causes.
Since 2015 our primary cause has been the support of the Keech Children’s Hospice. To date, we have raised and donated £35,000 to this very worthy cause, and our 2019 looks to be our most successful fundraising year yet.
In the past year alone, employees and trade partners have raised funds through skydiving, fire walking, obstacle racing, dress down days, in-house quizzes, and most recently in October 2018, a trek through the Transylvanian Alps and volunteer work at a children’s hospice in Bucharest.
Next on our agenda is our 4th Annual Golf Day, a calendar favourite amongst staff and trade partners. The rest of 2019 holds more obstacle racing and skydiving, a silent auction, and much much more! If you’d like to get involved as a participant, event organiser or valuable sponsor, please contact foundation@boxcharnock.co.uk
Keech Children’s Hospice service cares for children and their families across Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes. Care at the hospices focuses on helping patients to enjoy the best quality of life possible – controlling their pain and other symptoms; offering emotional and practical support; providing suitable treatments and therapies and, when the time comes providing the best care to ensure a comfortable and dignified death.
March 2022
It is impossible to be unaware of the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, following the Russian invasion.
The Box & Charnock Foundation has donated £5000 to AUGB (Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain) to support their efforts to provide humanitarian aid to those affected by the crisis.
£2341 of this donation was raised by Box & Charnock staff and our supply chain, and the remainder was donated by the business.
We would encourage anyone who is in a position to make a donation to donate to AUGB. More information about the association and a link to their GoFundMe page are below.
www.augb.co.uk
www.gofundme.com/f/helpukraine
February 2019
In February, our Head of Business Services Jen Daly took on the epic challenge of walking barefoot over hot coals.
The experience involved just one short hour of training, before Jen was outside, barefoot and ready to go! The red hot coals burn at 600°C so nerves were running high!
All the participants completed the firewalk without (major!) injury and the event raised thousands for Keech, well done everyone!
October 2018
In October 2018, some of the Box & Charnock team joined some other intrepid adventurers for an epic trek through the Transylvanian Alps.
The trek took the participants through woodland shared with bears and wolves, and past the famous "Dracula's Castle" in Bram. The route involved climbing to the height of Ben Nevis and back down again three times, as well as some hair-raising scrambles.
The Trekkers finished their week with a days voluntary work at a children's hospice in Bucharest. Well done team!
Environmental Policy
As a technical services provider, we are well aware of the impact that our daily operations can have on the environment.
We take our responsibility for green issues very seriously and our objective is to balance a need to achieve commercial goals with a sustainable and measurable improvement in our environmental performance.
In order to promote a greater understanding of our environmental policy, we regularly engage with employees, clients and supply chain across our business units. To underline our commitment in this area, we achieved the internationally recognised environmental management Standard, ISO 140001 accreditation in 2016.
