On the 19th of August at 7am four of our staff members will be taking on an amazing feat for charity. The Big Yellow Fellows (Mike FitzGerald (the team leader), Richard Shubrook, Paul Holmes and Luke McLaughlin) will, along with badminton coach Stephanie Cartwright, be riding 191 miles visting 34 Big Yellow Self Storage stores within the M25. All this is in aid of national charity Get The Kids Going!

Get Kids Going! works to enable disabled young people to get involved in all kinds of sports, anything from powerlifting to tennis. They’re currently preparing for the London paralympic games in 2012.

The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Jane Emmerson, loves the idea. “It’s absolutely fantastic to see what the Big Yellow Fellow boys are doing – they are certainly putting themselves to the test! We receive no funding from the Government or the Lottery and rely solely on donations from public so the money that Mike and the team raise will directly boost GB medal hopes at next year’s Paralympics helping to buy much needed equipment and sports grants.”

The Big Yellow Fellows endurance cycle is one of six Olympic events they’ll be recreating this year. This is all part of the Gold Challenge. This initiative challenges the public to take part in Olympic and Paralympic events to raise money for sports charities and promote sports among young people.

Good luck to everyone on the Big Yellow Fellows team!

If you’d like to get involved in the cause then you can visit their donation page. All contributions, no matter how small, will be greatly appreciated. (If they reach £1000 then Mike will be having a leg wax. Just a little extra incentive for you there).

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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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