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Redgate Lodge Motor Group swings into action to raise over £12,000 to support grassroots sport in the North East
Redgate Lodge Motor Group, a leading car dealership in Newcastle Upon Tyne, has hosted a successful golf day in aid of Sport Newcastle, a charity that supports the development of sport and young talent in the region.
The event, which took place at City of Newcastle Golf Club in Gosforth attracted 164 golfers and raised £12,088 for the charity. The money raised will go directly to sports people and clubs in the North East. Sport Newcastle is a registered charity supporting grassroots sport and has provided more than £2.5 million in financial grants spanning a quarter of a century to young talent, sports clubs and events.
Paul Keighley, Operations Director, Redgate Lodge Motor Group, said: We are delighted to have hosted such a fantastic golf day for Sport Newcastle, which is a charity that is very close to our hearts. 0 | February 2024 We are passionate about giving back to our community and helping young people achieve their sporting dreams. We would like to thank all the golfers, businesses, sponsors, and all the volunteers who made this event possible and contributed to its success.†Sport Newcastle is a voluntary organisation that was established in 1968 to promote and develop sport in Newcastle and the surrounding areas. The charity supports over 40 different sports and provides grants, awards, and scholarships to talented athletes, coaches, and clubs.
The charity also recognises and celebrates the achievements of local sporting heroes through its annual dinner and hall of fame. Patrons of the charity include Alan Shearer CBE, Sir John Hall and Jonathan Edwards CBE.
Former Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European triple jump champion, and Sport Newcastle Patron, Jonathan Edwards CBE took part in the event playing for the Redgate Lodge team and said, Support from North East businesses is an essential part of our commitment to providing sporting opportunities for all. As a former aspiring young sport person, I know first-hand how a small amount of money can make a huge difference to help realise your sporting dreams and believe in yourself.
When I was a student at Durham University, I was awarded a £250 grant by Sport Newcastle to buy my first pair of spikes, which really inspired me to believe I could go on to achieve great things in athletics.
Mike Booth, Vice Chair at Sport Newcastle, said: We are very grateful to Redgate Lodge Motor Group for organising this wonderful golf day and raising such a generous amount for our charity. The funds will make a huge difference to our work and enable us to support more grassroots sport in the North East. We are also very thankful to City of Newcastle Golf Club for hosting the event and providing a superb venue and service.
The golf day was attended by a wide range of businesses from the motor trade and local businesses including, BCA, Manheim Auctions along with Euro Car parts, Bosch UK, several leading finance and vehicle funding partners plus many regular and new faces who travelled from as far as Glasgow, Yorkshire and the Midlands.
The winners of the golf day were Auto Protect warranties with Lee Myers as their captain. The winner of the nearest the pin competition was Adam Findlay from Davison’s Solutions and the longest drive winner was Scott Palmer from Lookers Nissan.
Redgate Lodge – Sport Newcastle Awards
Redgate Lodge Motor Group are exceptionally proud to continue our support for grass roots sport in the region and our main award sponsorship of the Sport Newcastle awards, held at the Newcastle Civic Centre.
The award event celebrates the success of emerging sporting talent, sporting success and achievements in the region, including the rising star awards for young aspiring talent.
Supporting grass roots sports and helping sporting dreams of young people and sports clubs and organisations, Sport Newcastle is the City’s oldest and inclusive sports charity.
This year we sponsored the Sport Newcastle Coach of the Year Award which was awarded jointly to Newcastle United inspirational Head Coaches Eddie Howe and Beck Langley and our Managing Director, Scott Sibley was delighted to present Becky with the joint award.
Mike Booth, Sport Newcastle, Vice Chair, said, “Our major award winners reflect the region’s success achieved across a diverse range of female and male sports.
“With the ongoing support of the local business community this augurs well for the future, so a big thank you again to everyone at Redgate Lodge Motor Group for their continued support for our charity.”
2023 Charity Golf Day
Redgate Lodge Motor Group swings into action to support grassroots sport in the North East
Redgate Lodge Motor Group, a leading car dealership in Newcastle Upon Tyne, has hosted a successful golf day in aid of Sport Newcastle, a charity that supports the development of sport and young talent in the region.
The event, which took place at City of Newcastle Golf Club in Gosforth attracted 164 golfers and has so far raised in the region of £12,000 for the charity.
The money raised will go directly to sports people and clubs in the North East. Sport Newcastle is a registered charity supporting grassroots sport and has provided more than £2.5 million in financial grants spanning a quarter of a century to young talent, sports clubs and events.
Paul Keighley, Operations Director, Redgate Lodge Motor Group, said: “We are delighted to have hosted such a fantastic golf day for Sport Newcastle, which is a charity that is very close to our hearts.”
“We are passionate about giving back to our community and helping young people achieve their sporting dreams. We would like to thank all the golfers, businesses, sponsors, and all the volunteers who made this event possible and contributed to its success.”
Sport Newcastle is a voluntary organisation that was established in 1968 to promote and develop sport in Newcastle and the surrounding areas. The charity supports over 40 different sports and provides grants, awards, and scholarships to talented athletes, coaches, and clubs.
The charity also recognises and celebrates the achievements of local sporting heroes through its annual dinner and hall of fame. Patrons of the charity include Alan Shearer CBE, Sir John Hall and Jonathan Edwards CBE.
Former Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European triple jump champion, and Sport Newcastle Patron, Jonathan Edwards CBE took part in the event playing for the Redgate Lodge team and said,
“Support from North East businesses is an essential part of our commitment to providing sporting opportunities for all. As a former aspiring young sport person, I know first-hand how a small amount of money can make a huge difference to help realise your sporting dreams and believe in yourself.
“When I was a student at Durham University, I was awarded a £250 grant by Sport Newcastle to buy my first pair of spikes, which really inspired me to believe I could go on to achieve great things in athletics.”
Mike Booth, Vice Chair at Sport Newcastle, said: “We are very grateful to Redgate Lodge Motor Group for organising this wonderful golf day and raising such a generous amount for our charity. The funds will make a huge difference to our work and enable us to support more grassroots sport in the North East. We are also very thankful to City of Newcastle Golf Club for hosting the event and providing a superb venue and service.”
The golf day was attended by a wide range of businesses from the motor trade and local businesses including, BCA, Manheim Auctions along with Euro Car parts, Bosch UK, several leading finance and vehicle funding partners plus many regular and new faces who travelled from as far as Glasgow, Yorkshire and the Midlands.
The winners of the golf day were Auto Protect warranties with Lee Myers as their captain. The winner of the nearest the pin competition was Adam Findlay from Davison’s Solutions and the longest drive winner was Scott Palmer from Lookers Nissan.
Redgate Lodge – Westdenton Rhinos football team
We were approached by Steven and George who coach the Westdenton Rhinos football team in Newcastle, they asked if we would sponsor them for their 2022 Winter North Sea Dip?
We jumped at the chance! Well done Rhinos and what a great way to end the year.
Teesside Car Dealers – Ukraine Aid
A Billingham man has told of the heartbreaking scenes after driving to Ukraine to help refugees.
Shaun Maddren, 41, travelled to Poland on Wednesday, March 23, with a double-decker bus full of supplies. The dad-of-five has told of his experiences at the refugee camps, saying it left him and his team with “lumps in their throat.”
Shaun travelled to Ukraine with a group of local car dealership businessmen and relied on the Teesside community to donate supplies and money to all the car garages. Shaun’s team managed to raise an impressive £20,000 to fund their trip and other supplies.
Shaun decided he wanted to help out after witnessing the conflict on holiday: “I was looking at the news and I was that shocked. I had tears in my eyes watching it – I felt like I had to do something.”
Shaun said his dad’s best friend sadly had to sell his 28-year-old double-decker bus following his cancer diagnosis, and he thought he could put it to good use. [The coach] has been his baby for 20 years.
“He got ill and had to sell it and I always told him I’d be interested in the bus. He spent his life savings on it. We filled this bus up with the charity of people from Teesside.”
The team headed into Ukraine to drop off aid for the people who couldn’t leave the county. Shaun said they were roughly 20km from Lviv: “We drove through into Ukraine with boxed items of everything you can think of.
As soon as Redgate Lodge were made aware of this unbelievable trip that Shaun was making, we didn’t hessite to get involved and donated into their fund raising page.
Redgate Lodge – George Routledge Trophy
In summer 2021 we were honoured to be approached by long time regular customer Mr Brown who is involved with Heaton Harriers Running Club, with a requested to donate a trophy after another long term sponsorship ended.
Mr Brown has been using Redgate Lodge since we first moved to our Shiremoor site and would regularly tell us of his running adventures and achievements. He also told us the outgoing Chairman of Heaton Harriers Running Club had been in the position for 34 years and was stepping down and we agreed it was fitting that the new Cross-country Championship Shield for The Harriers should be known as The Redgate Lodge – George Routledge Trophy.
We were delighted to be invited to present the shields to the club and then to last year’s winners (one for the winner of the men’s race, and one for the ladies winner) at their presentation evening last night at the Cochrane Park Sports Centre.
Congratulations to Ian Norman on winning the men’s race and Nina Cameron on taking victory in the ladies.
If anyone would like to join the club, please get in contact with the club Heaton Harriers Facebook page or we can pass your details over.
Giveaways and Charity
Following our 2 successful giveaways, we have this year decided to change Charites. After much deliberation, we decided to choose a charity with strong links to the North East – this led us to Cash For Kids
Cash for Kids lends a helping hand to disabled and disadvantaged children aged 0 to 18 years across 21 areas in the UK by means of our grant giving process. All the money raised on behalf of Cash for Kids stays in the area it was raised in providing a helping hand when and where it is needed most.
In 2016 Cash For Kids raised over £20 million and we are delighted to be able to help with fund raising this year.
At Redgate Lodge not only do we believe in offering amazing value for money when supplying our customers with new cars, carrying out repair work on your current car, or even just a simple valet.
We believe by using not only our website and strong customer retention rate, but also our massive social media following to allow us to do something amazing, bring awareness to and also raise money for charity.
2010 Citroen C1 Giveaway
In January 2015 we decided to give a car away, a 2010 Citroen C1, which we did live on our Facebook page when we reached 15,000 likes.
BMW Z4 Convertible Giveaway
After the Giveaway we felt like maybe we missed something? Maybe we could have used our exposure to benefit somebody else? We already had planned to give another car away but how could we make it bigger or better.
The decision was then made, everyone who wants to enter the draw donates £5 to charity, a charity we let our Facebook fans decide, which unanimously became Cancer Research UK. So we set another target, the simple thing was to add another 15,000 LIKES on so therefore becoming 30,000, as soon as we hit that number we give away another car. What was that car, well it was a BMW Z4 convertible!
Again the target was reached, 30,000 likes was in the bag, but more importantly you, our customers and followers along with some added support from other local garages and businesses managed to raise:
£7312.31
1985 Golf GTI Convertible Giveaway
Any normal Garage/Business would call it a day at that point. But not Redgate Lodge, we have just announced our 3rd official car giveaway, a 1985 classic Golf GTI convertible. Again we will be carrying on with cancer research only this time we hope to raise £15,000 and naturally we have set the likes target at 45,000.
£10,056
BangersForBen
We donated £250 in 2017 and again in 2018 in aid of this superb charity.
Ben is an independent charity and dedicated partner to the automotive industry, providing support for life for its people and their family dependents. Ben is focused on delivering care and support to enable total health & wellbeing through working and later life.
Ben provides free and dential advice and support focused on the four main areas of peoples’ health and wellbeing: physical, mental and social, supporting people to manage their health proactively and overcome any challenges they face, at whatever stage of life, empowering them to make lasting, positive change. Everyone who works, or has worked, in the automotive industry can access Ben’s tailored, holistic support, for themselves and their family dependents.
