Monday, August 16th, 2010
Armadillo Self Storage Sheffield Parkway was delighted to aid Rotherham Hospice with their recent storage needs. They are gearing up to open a new shop in the area which will become the fifth store for the charity. It’s scheduled to open early this month and will sell a range of bargain items including clothes, cards, DVDs, toys and household goods.
As the Rotherham Hospice team prepares for the grand opening, Armadillo Self Storage has been able to donate free storage space to enable them to store donations safely and securely until the new store is ready to open. The stores are a very important source of income for the hospice as the contributions allow people to turn donated goods back into cash for the charity which supports people with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
The hospice is currently recruiting up to 20 volunteers to help run the new shop with some of the tasks being serving customers, sorting stock and maintaining the displays.
Visit Rotherham Hospice for further information on volunteering, fundraising or making a donation to this amazing charity!
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
It’s a very exciting time for READ International as donations have arrived safely in East Africa! Their summer team has recently received 280,000 books that are destined for Tanzanian schools and that will be transported across 14 regions of Tanzania this month. These are much needed donations that give kids the opportunity to learn from books that their schools could never usually afford.
We’re also very happy to hear that READ International are receiving hundreds of queries a week from people who wish to donate books to schools in East Africa. Big Yellow is delighted to be able to donate space across the country where READ International can store books before they are ready for shipping. The new donations will remain in the UK until their new teams of eager volunteers start university in September.
In the coming weeks ahead they will be distributing books to Tanzanian and Ugandan teachers and students. We’ll be looking forward to hearing even more great achievements!
To find out how you can get active with READ International or donate books to the project please visit their Facebook group.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The Twickenham branch of Big Yellow Self Storage is delighted to have teamed up with pupils from The Heathfield Infant School to do a minute of non-stop sponsored jumps and star jumps. The youthful participants were taking part in their first ever Jump For Life event hoping to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity and has saved millions of lives by discovering new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. They work extremely hard each year to raise awareness by running events such as Donation Station days which 13 of Big Yellow stores were involved with earlier in the year.
Big Yellow Self Storage wants to congratulate the pupils from The Heathfield Infant school for this fantastic achievement in raising money for such a worthwhile cause. After all their hard work jumping, the pupils were rewarded with ice lollies and balloons to celebrate.
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Earlier this year, 13 of our Big Yellow Self Storage stores across the country took part in a Donation Station Day for Cancer Research. We set up donation drop off points at our stores so friends, families and colleagues could donate bags of much needed items to help stock a Cancer Research shop.
We managed to raise over £1,000 between the stores taking part which included Bristol Central, Liverpool Edge Lane, Poole, Reading, Sheffield Bramall Lane, Edinburgh, Finchley East, Balham, Peterborough, Norwich, Dundee, Stoke and Stockton.
Some of the highlights of the day included 9 bags of donated items from Dundee totalling £243, 16 bags from Stockton totalling £460 and 30 bags from Finchley East totalling £180!
Well done to everyone involved as it was a fantastic achievement to raise so much money on the day for such an amazing cause.
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
To support the Cash For Kids charity, a quiz night sponsored by Armadillo Self Storage Dundee raised over £2,000 for a great cause. Over 200 people and 40 teams went head-to-head in the annual competition at Fairmuir Social Club with Bowman’s Golden Girls being awarded the trophy for the winning team.
The Cash For Kids charity has been established to support thousands of children across the region who suffer abuse or neglect, are disabled and have special needs or simply need a little extra care or guidance. Every single penny that they raise is changing lives for the better and provides a helping hand to youngsters when and where they need it most.
Our own Derek Smith from Armadillo Self Storage Dundee presented a cheque for £2,020 to Tay FM’s Stewart Webster which has been awarded to Cash For Kids.
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
The Big Yellow Self Storage team in Birmingham have been giving up their time and processing donations for the Haiti Appeal after the tragic earthquake in January.
Among the items donated were clothes, food and blankets for the thousands that have been left injured and homeless.
Head honcho Rose helped co-ordinate the appeal with the help of Central Removals who did local donation pick-ups from schools for free. A big thank you to the staff and children of South Leeds High School, who drove many miles to help. Big Yellow Self Storage would like to thank everyone involved who donated their time and effort into supporting this appeal.
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
Armadillo Self Storage Sheffield Parkway was delighted to aid St. Luke’s Hospice with their storage needs recently. Every day, St. Luke’s offers excellent specialist care to its patients. Staffing at the hospice has become vitally important to the patients and their families as without the excellent individual care that they provide, St. Luke’s wouldn’t be so unique and valuable. We’ve donated storage space worth £2,000 to a very deserving cause which has been providing care to thousands of seriously ill people within their community since 1971. St. Luke’s we salute you!
Visit Friends of St Luke’s for further information on volunteering, fundraising or making a donation to this amazing charity!
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
50 staff nationwide from Armadillo Self Storage and Big Yellow Self Storage stores will be setting off to rampage down to the sunny Brighton seafront. No, we’re not off on a beach holiday. Jimmy Gibson (our CEO) and the aptly named ‘The Big Yellow Armadillos’ cycling team will be donning helmets and tackling the London to Brighton bike ride on Sunday 24th June raising funds for Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation.
What’s happening on the day?
It’s a 08:30am start from the Balham store on Sunday 24th June and then a short cycle over to the starting line at Clapham Common where the team will set off on the 54 mile cycle ride south to the finish line on Madeira Drive in a sea of yellow jerseys! We’ll be arriving at around 14:30 / 15:30 at the Brighton store for some much needed refreshments. In the area? Supporters are more than welcome to join us for the festivities!
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Parcels4Troops organise small ‘home comfort’ parcels for soldiers to be sent out to them in the field. The scheme was set up a few years ago by ex-RCT (Royal Corps of Transport) Corporal Alasdair Sutherland to help a couple of his work colleagues who were in the Territorial Army and deployed in Iraq. The parcels were received extremely well and the word spread, resulting in many more parcels being sent out to the unit.
We’ve offered Parcels4Troops unlimited use of 100 square feet of self storage at our Edinburgh branch to help the donation drive. If you’re in the area, then donations from the following categories would be greatly appreciated:
Small packets of sweets (no chocolate or toffee – not very good in the heat)
Glucose sweets
Anti-bacterial hand gel
Packets of dried noodles
Cup-a-soups
Sachets of drinking chocolate
Chewing gum
Breakfast oat bars
Toothbrush and toothpaste
Moist wipes
If you’d like to get involved, you can drop off donations for troops during opening hours. Visit Big Yellow Edinburgh online for details. Alternatively contact Parcel4Troops via their website to find out how you can help.
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
United Haitians in the United Kingdom (UHUK) is seeking out donations of shoes, candles, tents, electrical lanterns, sleeping bags, tablets for clean drinking water, school and medical supplies to send to the many affected Haitian areas. We’ve set up donation drop off points at several Big Yellow Self Storage locations to support the donation drive. All donations from the above categories will be gratefully received at the locations below:
Big Yellow Self Storage Donation Drop Off Points:
North London: Big Yellow Self Storage Finchley East
South West London: Big Yellow Self Storage Hounslow
South East London: Big Yellow Self Storage Kennington
Reading: Big Yellow Self Storage Reading
Birmingham: Big Yellow Self Storage Birmingham
If you’d like to make a monetary contribution you can do so through the UHUK website. All donations received will go directly to UHUK’s Earthquake Relief fund. Financial donations can be done securely online via their PayPal account.
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