Rufus are support Anne Ganley, MD of Thompson Building Centres in her quest in trekking all the way to the base camp of Mt Everest. For updates on Anne’s trek, please visit www.anneganley.co.uk/ or if you would like to make a donation please visit www.everyclick.com/anneganley.

We recently received the following letter from Anne:

As you may know over the last 30 years I have given and supported many charities through my business and personally, and so far over that time we have given approx a million pounds to many various charities, however the hard part is now I am asking everyone to help me with my fundraising effort.

Most of us over the last 18 months have had a massive mountain to climb, with the state of the economy and now we appear to be in calmer waters but not quite at the end of the storm, I have decided to take on a challenge of literally climbing a mountain by trekking to the base camp of Mt Everest, the world’s highest mountain on 30th April for charity.

Although the thought of 17 days out of the office is a challenge in itself, I can feel the adrenalin of anticipation already and I am so excited but at the same time a bit scared, and as this is a life changing challenge I thought what could be more fitting than for me to take this opportunity to raise some funds and support some charities who have been a part of my past, present and of the future.

Thankfully, I’ll be surrounded on the trek by 20 friends and colleagues who I know will provide inspiration and support, but my real inspiration and motivation is raising as much as I can for 7 charities (for the purposes of this fundraising page the lead charity is Show Racism The Red Card, but all money raised will be distributed evenly between my 7 chosen charities)

The Present

St Benedict’s Hospice, St Oswald’s Hospice & Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Care Centre

St Benedicts & St Oswald Hospice

Many of you will know that I helped nurse my mam before we lost her to cancer and those last precious years with her would not have been filled with happy memories if it were not for the help and support from those at the hospice for my mam and me and my family.

Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Care Centre

Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Care Centre is an iconic, space age, super cancer centre, that is already making an impact despite having only been open a short time. Many of my friends, family and staff have benefited from it and people travel from far afield to come to the centre. I was also privileged to meet Sir Bobby Robson who took time out to come and open our TAPS branch in Newcastle. Despite being extremely ill himself, he showed amazing courage and good humour and talked endlessly to staff, builders & plumbers.

He did so much for so many.

The Past

The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army have been next door to us for 35 years and in that time I have always supported them. This gallant organisation works tirelessly to help people who have fallen on hard times.

The Future

Grace House Children’s Hospice Appeal

We have as a company supported this appeal since the founder Kathy Secker first dreamed of building the first children’s hospice in Sunderland for children who are not expected to reach adulthood and their families. The charity was launched when it was realised that the North East of England had the lowest number of hospice beds in the UK for children.

Brothers in Arms

The dream of the Brothers in Arms is to build a memorial wall adjacent to the existing war memorial in Sunderland which will be dedicated to the fallen of our area who have paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving for Queen and country. This new memorial will allow families, the forces and the general public to pay their respects and ensure all brave servicemen and women from the North East are never forgotten.

I do appreciate that times are very tough and fully understand if you cannot help on this occasion. I am funding my trip myself so you can be safe in the knowledge that any donation, no matter how small – would be gratefully received and a tremendous thank you for your kindness and generosity if you are able to support.

If you would like to support, you can do it via my everyclick page www.everyclick.com/anneganley or by sending a cheque made payable to Anne Ganley’s Charity Challenge to Thompson Building Centres, Commercial Road, Hendon, Sunderland, SR2 8QR.

I would just like to say thank you for taking the time to read this letter and if you wish to follow me on my trekking challenge you can do, just like that, on Twitter and Facebook, only 6 weeks to go!

Kindest Regards

Anne

 

Visit Anne Ganley’s Website here.

The time has come again for the Rufus Bestest Fast Runner Ever Face-off. This year Web Manager Vince will be joining the line up, adding extra boasting rites to the winner and increasing the already intense competition.

I’m quietly confident…

Vince

You have no chance, I’ll be waiting at the finish line!

Graeme

Each participant will be raising money for a charity. If you would like to donate while the runners get into their training routines click one of the links below.

Queue the training montages and inspirational music!

In an attempt to get extra fit for the Great North Run, Vince and Graeme will be taking part in the Sunderland 10K run on the 18th July.

The run starts, and finishes at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light and after last year’s 4,500 runners took part, 2010’s event should be bigger and better.

To see more information on the Sunderland 10k Run, visit here.

Fitness folk Angela, Graeme 1 and Vince will be running for Sport Relief on March 21st to help raise money for Comic Relief. All money raised goes to poor and vulnerable people across the world.

Show your support at the Sport Relief website here.

In 2009 M&K Services celebrated their 10th year in business and Rufus launched their new website at the beginning of the March 2010.

M&K specialise in metalwork, and their services range from safety barriers to tool storage lockers, access steps to screens and workstations.

M&K Services has an extensive gallery, which can be seen on their website here, where you can see examples of the vast range of products they produce, including Rufus’ cool front desk!

CCS came to us at the end of last year and we got to work creating a brand spanking new logo, brochure and website, which went live at the end of January.

Based in the north east, CCS Mobile are a company of experienced, technology savvy people who are dedicated to finding the best and most cost effective solutions to allow businesses to keep in touch with their colleagues and clients.

CCS provide a personalised service to make sure you get the best deal, and have a 30 day, 3 month and annual review of your contract to make sure you get the most out of your deal.

“We are really pleased with the way the website turned out, the vision we had in our heads, Rufus transferred onto the screen.”

Mark Lavender

Visit the CCS Mobile website here.

The Soul Retreat website was launched at the beginning of the year along with a nice new logo and branding.

The Soul Retreat is much more than a simple beauty salon. Its unique Spa like environment will give you the comfort and serenity you need. The Soul Retreat is located in Stockton-on-Tees and has the facilities for waxing, massages, facials, manicures, along with many other treatments.

To see the full range of treatments The Soul Retreat offer, click here.

Rufus has been expanding over the last few months and to help us on the front line we three new additions to our team.

Helping out with admin we have Joni, and on the design and web development side we have Chris and Richard.

As they are now part of the team here at Rufus, they each received a complimentary silly face cartoon of themselves and lessons in making tea and coffee!

At the beginning of the year Sunderland were put forward as nominated candidate host city, along with Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Plymouth, Nottingham, London, Manchester, Newcastle/Gateshead and Milton Keynes.

Now it’s England’s turn for our support. Back England’s bid to become the host city of the 2018 World Cup by following this link and clicking back the bid.

Rufus are proud to present the new Jordan Engineering website.

Jordan Engineering Services Ltd is part of the Redhall Group Plc. The company has a successful history stretching back to 1964, and provides value adding, cost effective, engineering, procurement and management solutions specializing in long-term relationships within the process industries. Jordan Engineering are the leading sub-contract precision engineering solution providers based in the north east of England. The website we created has a wide range of images taken from each aspect of their speciality and detailed information to support each one.

We decided to try something a bit different this time around and are very happy with the way the Jordan Engineering website turned out.

To see more about what Jordan Engineering offer, click here.