Ribble’s 2025 Fundraising Efforts

Here at Ribble, we’re incredibly proud of the impact we’ve made over the years through our fundraising efforts and 2025 has been no exception. Thanks to the passion, generosity and teamwork of our colleagues, we’ve donated more than £55,500 to charities that are making a real difference in our community and beyond.

Throughout the year, our fundraising efforts supported a range of incredible causes. We donated an outstanding £17,500 for Mahdlo Youth Zone, a state-of-the-art youth charity in the heart of Oldham that provides opportunities, activities and vital support for young people aged 8-19. Knowing that our contribution helps create safe spaces and brighter futures for local young people makes this amount even more meaningful.

Through employee led initiatives and company wide donations, we contributed over £15,500 to Bury Hospice, Dr. Kershaw’s Hospice, and several cancer charities collectively, organisations close to all our hearts and some of which we are patrons. These charities provide invaluable care and compassion to patients and families when they need it most.

We rounded off the year by embracing the true spirit of the festive season. Our support for the Cash for Kids Mission Christmas appeal helped ensure that children across our region woke up to a gift on Christmas morning. From donating presents to taking part in our annual Christmas Jumper Day, our team came together to provide vital support to children and families facing poverty, abuse, neglect and life-limiting illnesses.

As we move into 2026, our commitment to raising funds, awareness and hope for these incredible causes is stronger than ever. Here’s to another year of making a difference.

Fundraising & Donations in 2021 (So Far)

A Good Start to Ribble’s Fundraising in 2021

Over the course of 2020, we donated over £25,000 to a variety of charities close to our community and employees’ hearts. And in December, we ended the year on a high by fundraising over £2000 for Alzheimer’s Society by collectively running, walking and cycling over 1823 miles collectively over two weeks.

At the beginning of this year we asked our employees which charities they wanted us to focus our donations and fundraising efforts towards in 2021. We received lots of feedback and suggestions of some wonderful charities, and so far we have donated £26,200 to 18 of those charities.

Recent Events

In the past two weeks the team at Ribble have been busy taking part in the Memory Walk for Alzheimer’s Society and a Virtual Race Night for Macmillan Cancer Support. Both events were a success and great fun, raising £370 and £345 respectively.

We have many more fundraising events planned for the rest year and we can’t wait to help raise more money and awareness for some fantastic charities.

Team Challenge Raises Over £2000 for Alzheimer’s

During the last two weeks of November, our team here at Ribble embarked on a huge challenge, all with the aim of raising as much money and awareness for Alzheimer’s Society as possible.

What was the Challenge?

To collectively run, walk or cycle a minimum of 1,019 miles, the distance from Oldham to Panotec (our Italian partners), over the course of two weeks.

What do Alzheimer’s Society do?

Alzheimer’s Society are the UK’s leading care and research dementia charity. They campaign for change, fund research to find a cure and support people living with dementia today. It is a cause which is close to many of our employee’s hearts and we are proud to do our bit to help them in their important work.

How did we get on?

After two weeks of braving the bitter cold Northern weather, Team Ribble managed to collectively run, walk and cycle over 1,823 miles (804 more miles than the original target) and raise a whopping £1,020. Prior to the Challenge starting, Ribble Packaging pledged it would match whatever its employees managed to raise. Therefore, the grand total of money raised for Alzheimer’s Society was…  £2,040!

We would like to give a huge pat on the back to everyone who took part in the challenge and thank anyone who has generously donated.

 

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