Previous Fundraising 2009 at Opus Energy

December 2009 - Santa runs half marathon

As if running a half Marathon wasn't enough, Opus Energy employee, Stephen Elliot, ran it dressed as Santa in aid of raising money for the Cynthia Spencer Hospice. Stephen completed the Bedford Harriers half Marathon in an impressive 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Stephen is still taking sponsorship at his Justgiving page.

November 2009 - The New York marathon

As with previous years Opus Energy offered two lucky employees the opportunity to win an all expenses paid trip to New York to take part in one of the world's greatest road races, the NYC Marathon 2009. In exchange for this amazing opportunity the participants committed to raising a minimum of £1,500 for the Cynthia Spencer Hospice.

Huge congratulations to Neil Robinson, a Credit Controller and Tanya Matchett, Credit Control Team Leader from Opus Energy for their tremendous efforts taking part in the New York Marathon. Over the past few months we have been kept up to date and entertained with their training blog. Now they have finihsed they tell us all about the event in their last blog entry.

Neil and Tanya between them raised an amazing £3,138.00

Opus Energy has agreed to match the fundraising amount, so the final amount raised was £6,276.00

Read their blog entries

Find out more about the New York Marathon

October 2009 - Trick or Treat

For a bit of Halloween friday fun and fundraising, staff at Opus Energy dug out the old tights and false teeth to take part in a halloween fancy dress competition. There were prizes for first and second place, as voted for by our employees. There were also cakes on sale for everyone to grab themselves a lunchtime treat!

Thanks to the efforts of Opus Energy employees we raised nearly £250 for the Cynthia Spencer Hospice.

October 2009 - The BUPA Great South Run

Part of the Great series of runs the Great South Run is Europe's leading 10 mile road race which runs through Southsea and Portsmouth's historic naval dockyard passing HMS Victory and the Mary Rose. This is a fast, flat course and if a half marathon is too long this is the ideal race for you.

Opus Energy's employees Jacqui Fellows, Process Development Manager and Phil Ballard, IT Infrastructure Manager, took part on the 10 mile race this year to help raise money for the Cynthia Spencer Hospice. They both completed the event in great times and have raised over £250 for the cause. Well done and thanks to Jacqui and Phil!

September 2009 - Cycle 4 Cynthia

Back in September Kate Barker and David Moorhouse took part in the cycle 4 Cynthia challenge. The participants had 3 different distances to choose from: 5miles, 25miles and for the more adventurous a 50mile course!!

In total they raised a brilliant: £321.00

June 2009 - It's a Knockout

The event was billed as ‘The ultimate Corporate Team building entertainment for you and your colleagues!" and the event was indeed all it was billed to be.

This event took place at Wicksteed Park, Barton Road, Kettering. The Opus Energy team of 10 strong and slightly crazy individuals took part in games over the course of 3-4 hours which included a variety of wacky challenges using giant colourful inflatables, obstacles and props.

Click here to read all about Opus Energy’s experiences and see the pictures!

May 2009 - The Waendal Walk

On 9th and 10th May Opus Energy put together a couple of teams to take on the Waendel Walk for the third year running. The international event is open to everyone and with distances ranging from 6km to 42km there are walks for all abilities through the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside. The group of 20 people walked together, having a great time, making new friends and raised over £750 for the Cynthia Spencer Hospice.

April 2009 - Easter Bonanza

We kicked off our Cynthia Spencer Hospice fundraising with an Easter bonanza. There was a day long Easter fun day full of quizzes, raffles, Easter egg and bonnet competitions. We gave our employees a gauntlet that if they could raise over £250 in sponsorship by lunchtime, one of our Senior Managers would dress up as an Easter Bunny for the afternoon and hand out Easter eggs! It seems the challenge was too appealing as this target was smashed and our Operations Manager ‘happily’ put on a bunny outfit and gave out Easter eggs as promised.

The day was a great success with everyone getting involved and enjoying themselves; in the end we raised £520 for the Cynthia Spencer Hospice.

Click here to read about some of the fundraising events we are planning for 2010.

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