Supporting The Leeds South and East Foodbank
13-Jan-25
Responding to a plea for assistance from our friends in the insurance community, the Team at Aston Charles leaped into action and volunteered to help collect much needed supplies for the Leeds South and East Foodbank. The Insurance Institute of Leeds and Emerging Insurance Professionals (Leeds Institute) set off to Tesco in Garforth to collect financial and food donations from passing shoppers. Between them, the team filled 22 crates (and counting!) and raised over £100 for the Trussell Trust, who distribute food to needy local families. For more information or to support the Leeds South and East Food bank, please visit https://leedssouthandeast.foodbank.org.uk...
Aston Charles hosts a charity insurance Darts evening
17-Apr-24
Aston Charles hosts a charity insurance community Darts evening, on behalf of Simon on the Streets. After the success of our previous charity nights for our friends and clients in the insurance industry, such as a Curling evening and a Go-Karting night, the team at Aston Charles had been thinking about organising another event for a couple of weeks. By chance, we were having a catch up in Leeds city centre, and bumped into a couple of our Broker friends who were attending a networking event for Simon on the Streets in the bar next door. We were promptly invited to join in the fun and meet attendees including, amongst others, Leo Jones-Rowe, who alongside the day job of being a Partner of Schofield Sweeney, is also Chair of Simon on the Streets. Always one to call out Richard’s procrastination, Annie and James were quick to suggest that we support Simon on the Streets for our next event and, and as many of our clients enjoy Darts (and not to mention the ‘Luke Littler Effect’!) we promptly decided to hire a floor of Flight Club on Park Row, Leeds. Fast-forward a couple of weeks, and we were delighted to host insurance professionals from across the UK at our event. The winner of the individual trophy was Craig Dinnewell of UK Global (Part of Howden Group), with silver and bronze medals going to Tom O’Connell (C&C Insurance Brokers) and Rhys Jones (also UK Global) respectively. This meant that UK Global also picked up the Team Trophy, winning a complementary round of Darts – kindly donated by the team at Flight Club Leeds. As well as being joined by many of our insurance contacts, we were also joined by our friends from the legal sector such as DWF and, of course, Schofield Sweeney. Simon on the Streets is an independent charity offering emotional and practical support for homeless and vulnerable people to enable them to achieve their goals....
Aston Charles Holds Popular eKarting Charity Event!
27-Mar-23
The Yorkshire insurance community braved a surprise snow storm recently to attend Aston Charles’ charity eKarting event at the Xscape Leisure Centre! The event was attended by a large number of teams from across the insurance community, alongside their friends, families and clients, and we made hundreds for our two chosen Charities (Andy’s Man Club and The Disaster Emergency Committees Earthquake Relief Fund for Turkey and Syria). The fastest laps of the evening were clocked by Tom 'Rum' Butler (Schofield Insurance Brokers), Jake 'The Flying Dutchman' Fox (Towergate Insurance) and Gary 'Brought His Own Helmet' Thorner (Edison Ives Insurance). The fastest consistent driver was Jake Fox , and the fastest team was Schofield Insurance Brokers Ltd featuring Tom Butler, Amanda Shaw, Dean Fletcher, Dylan King and Mohammed Taj, with Paul Coates and Matt Steer from McCarron Coates Ltd coming second, and Edison Ives Insurance Solutions coming third with Gary Thorner and Harry Sekhon. The feedback has been outstanding and we look forward to organising another social event soon – if anyone would like to be kept abreast of these, or has suggestions for what we can organise, please do contact Richard Jones richardjones@astoncharles.co.uk...
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