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Unipart sponsors first Oxford Climate Awards

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Unipart is sponsoring the first ever Oxford Climate Awards, recognising individuals and organisations in Oxfordshire playing a vital role in tackling climate change.

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Unipart Manufacturing hosts Mayor of West Midlands

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Unipart will play a significant role in the Zero Carbon Oxford Partnership, which will help develop an industrial net zero roadmap.

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Unipart donates £4,550 to Dougie Mac

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

During Unipart’s Big Charity Challenge 2023 four Unipart teams raised £2,335 for chosen local charity Dougie Mac.

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Unipart raises over £2,800 for Oxfordshire Mind

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Unipart’s Cowley site raised more than £1,500 for their chosen charity Oxfordshire Mind during the Big Charity Challenge 2023.

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Unipart raises more than £1,400 for Leicester Oncology Ward

Monday, January 29, 2024

Unipart’s Baginton A site raised more than £1,400 for Leicester Oncology Ward during the Big Charity Challenge 2023, in memory of a former colleague.

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Unipart Logistics fundraising for Air Ambulances UK passes £45,000

Monday, November 1, 2021

Unipart Logistics has now raised a total of over £45,000 thanks to a team of six Unipart colleagues recently completing a gruelling 450km cycle ride between two air ambulance charity airbases.

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Macmillan Coffee Mornings 2021

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Colleagues from across the business took part in the 2021 Macmillan Coffee Morning.

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Feeding the frontline

Thursday, May 7, 2020

A Unipart Logistics operations manager on furlough is volunteering to help feed NHS frontline workers.

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Sara’s solo half marathon for hospice

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A Unipart Logistics general manager completed a socially-distanced half marathon to fundraise for the hospice that cared for her mother.

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Unipart runners go social distance for charity

Monday, April 6, 2020

A team of runners from Unipart completed their own solo runs for charity after the annual Oxford Mail OX5 was cancelled due to coronavirus.

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Unipart charity gallery for Oxfordshire Art Weeks

Monday, February 24, 2020

Local artists are being invited to sell their work at Unipart House in Cowley as part of Oxfordshire Art Weeks to help raise money for Oxford Food Bank.

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Unipart hosts disability confident conference

Friday, November 8, 2019

A conference focusing on the talents that people with disabilities can bring to business and how to recruit a diverse workforce is being held at Unipart House on December 5.

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Oxford Academy students attend digital day at Unipart House

Friday, November 8, 2019

More than 100 year 10 students from Oxford Academy spent the day with Unipart experts learning about digital technologies in the workplace

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Unipart volunteers find Oxford Food Bank redistributes £1m of produce a year

Friday, November 8, 2019

Oxford Food Bank has found it saves more than £1m of surplus food a year from landfill after Unipart volunteers helped measure produce coming through the charity’s warehouse.

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Unipart Logistics Thames 100 Challenge 2019

Thursday, September 5, 2019

A Unipart Logistics team is taking on the Thames 100 Challenge to raise money for Air Ambulances UK.

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Unipart sponsors Oxford Food Bank

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Oxford Food Bank has found it saves more than £1m of surplus food a year from landfill after Unipart volunteers helped measure produce coming through the charity’s warehouse.

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Oxford Academy students learn digital skills from Unipart

Thursday, August 15, 2019

More than 100 year 10 students from Oxford Academy spent the day with Unipart experts learning about digital technologies in the workplace on Thursday 4 July 2019.

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Unipart helps Cowley pupils become Voice in a Million

Friday, April 12, 2019

Unipart helped local children attend a national singalong in London.

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Cokethorpe Students visit Unipart House

Friday, February 1, 2019

Cokethorpe Upper Sixth BTEC Business students visited Unipart House

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Unipart Logistics London-Amsterdam Challenge raises over £15k for Bowel Cancer charity

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The Unipart Logistics London-Amsterdam Challenge involved cycling nearly 360 miles through four countries

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Environmental roadshow marks National Recycling Week

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

To show our support for National Recycling Week, which ran from 24th-30th September, Unipart Logistics took an environmental roadshow to a number of our sites

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Unipart Inspires Programme Extends to Bicester Garrison

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Around 30 service personnel from Bicester Garrison attended a special course in the Unipart U to help them to transition to roles in industry.

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Unipart team abseils for Oxford Hospitals Charity

Monday, September 24, 2018

A team from Unipart Cowley took to the ropes to abseil down one of Oxford's highest buildings

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Unipart Logistics Donates Defibrillators To Help Save Lives

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Unipart Logistics has secured new defibrillators for our sites and donated three to the St John's Ambulance Service: all of which could help to save lives both within our business and in the local community.

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Fictional theme park unites Unipart and students at digital day

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Around 120 students went along to the Oxford Academy Digital Day held at Unipart’s Cowley Head Office as part of the Business in the Community (BITC) initiative.

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Business students visit Unipart Group

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

D'Overbroeck's recently wrote about their visit to Unipart on the school's Facebook page. Here is their report.

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Burton Awards Colleagues ‘Going the Extra Mile’

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The UL Waterstones team in Burton celebrated the commitment and contribution of their colleagues by hosting the Burton 'GEMS' (Going the Extra Mile) Awards at Burton Town Hall.

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Unipart Group To Support Maggie’s Oxford Throughout 2014

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Unipart Group has chosen to support Maggie's Oxford with a series of fundraising activities throughout 2014. The first event is a Six Nations Dress Down Day which will take place at Unipart House on Thursday 13th February. Maggie's is a charity with centres located in the grounds of major NHS cancer hospitals, offering support that people with cancer, and their friends and relatives, desperately need.

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Unipart Kicks Off Mentoring Sessions with The Oxford Academy

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Unipart people have begun mentoring students at The Oxford Academy in Littlemore.

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Unipart host Breakfast with Santa fundraiser for local charities

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Unipart Group, one of Europe’s leading manufacturing, logistics and consultancy companies, hosted a special Breakfast with Santa event on 21 December to raise money for three local charities including Oxfordshire Mind, The Archway Foundation and Oxford Young Person Diabetes Society.

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Unipart employees aiming to exercise around the world in just 3 days for charity

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Employees from Unipart Logistics are aiming to collectively exercise their way around the world in just three days to raise £20,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

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Tamworth distribution centre celebrates World Book Day

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Tamworth distribution centre raises £160 for charity.

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MetLase supports Sheffield University’s Formula Student Racing team

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

MetLase, a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Unipart Group, is supporting the University of Sheffield’s Formula Student race team to help with their aspiration to be one of the top 10 UK teams in the competition.

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Inspiring the engineers of the future

Friday, May 26, 2017

39 children from Eversfield Preparatory School in Solihull took a trip to Unipart Manufacturing in Coventry last week to see science and engineering in the real world.

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Inspiring the engineers of the future

Friday, May 26, 2017

39 children from Eversfield Preparatory School in Solihull took a trip to Unipart Manufacturing in Coventry last week to see science and engineering in the real world.

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Tamworth take on the Great Row for Cancer Research UK

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Unipart Logistics in Tamworth raised £600 for Cancer Research UK after taking part in the Great Row.

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Unipart in Oxford raised £400 for Red Nose Day

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

We took part in Red Nose Day on Friday 24 March raising £400 for Comic Relief.

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Unipart Inspires the Armed Forces with employment pilot

Monday, February 20, 2017

Unipart Inspires is a programme developed with Unipart and Business in the Community to inspire young people about work. This approach was recently extended to a pilot with the Armed Forces, which saw ten serving military personnel come to Unipart’s headquarters in Oxford to give them skills to help them prepare for transition to civilian life either now or in the future.

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Unipart’s fundraising sees over £6,000 for local Oxfordshire charity

Friday, February 17, 2017

Employees at Unipart's head office in Oxford took part in a number of activities throughout the year to raise the money for SeeSaw, a charity providing grief support for children in Oxfordshire.

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Unipart sponsors workshop on purpose driven brands

Friday, February 17, 2017

Unipart hosted a workshop to provide inspirational insights from business, and discuss practical tools and guidance, enabling Marketing, Commercial Strategy and Corporate Responsibility leaders to work together to drive customer engagement, social impact and commercial advantage.

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Tamworth raises £1,000 for Cancer Research UK

Monday, February 6, 2017

Our colleagues in Tamworth have been busy raising money and helping local charities.

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The Unipart Award for Outstanding Employment

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Unipart is sponsoring Business in the Community’s Award for Outstanding Employment.

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Unipart host Breakfast with Santa fundraiser for local charity

Monday, December 19, 2016

Unipart Group, one of Europe’s leading manufacturing, logistics and consultancy companies, hosted a special Breakfast with Santa event on 19 December to raise money for SeeSaw, which gives grief support for children in Oxfordshire.

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Unipart Autoparts raises over £25,000 for Ben with its annual Car Dealer Magazines Bangers4Ben fundraising event

Friday, October 21, 2016

Unipart Autoparts is delighted to announce that is has raised a total of £25,570 for Ben, which offers support for life to the automotive industry, with its annual Bangers4Ben fundraising event.

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Volunteers from Unipart transform hospital garden

Monday, September 19, 2016

A garden for women requiring a wide range of health services has beenunveiled after a group of volunteers from Unipart, one of Europe’s leading manufacturing, logistics and consultancy companies, brought it back into use.

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Unipart support’s BITC Apprenticeship Event in Oxford

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Unipart led a group of Oxfordshire businesses in supporting Business in the Community's Earn While You Learn apprenticeship event at Kassam Stadium in Oxford.

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Books sale raises £225 for Seesaw

Monday, June 13, 2016

The Events for U team at Unipart House raised an impressive £225.87 at recent Book and DVD sale

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Unipart Burton don festive knitwear to help homeless

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Unipart people held a Christmas jumper day to raise money to support people living on the streets of Burton.

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Unipart Aunt Sally event boosts charity total

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Unipart Aunt Sally tournament tops out £700+ fundraiser for Rosy's

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Marathon cycle at Unipart House raises over £800 for Children in Need

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

A 12-hour gym marathon took place at Unipart House to fund raise for the BBC’s Children in Need campaign.

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£500 raised at coffee morning

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Cake sales at Unipart House topped £500.

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Dragon Boat Race team achieves fastest time ever

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

A team from Unipart competed in the Dragon Boat Racing held at Abingdon. Unipart came 10th out of the 23 teams competing on the Sunday, with our fastest time of 01:02:35 minutes to complete the course. The total raised prior to the event, including gift aid, stood at £501.25, which has been donated to Rosy’s, an

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Fund raisers score goal for two charities in Rugby World Cup events

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Rugby World Cup events raise nearly £2,000.

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Festive dinner in The Art Room provides comfort and joy to the lonely

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The Oxford Mail reported on a Unipart staff Christmas lunch that left six special guests and many Unipart employees with smiles on their faces and a belly-full of food on Wednesday. “In response to the Oxford Mail and Age UK Oxfordshire’s Lonely This Christmas campaign, the manufacturing, logistics and consulting company invited 20 elderly residents to join them for

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Oxford team raises £9000 for hospice

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Unipart’s community team at Oxford ‘adopted’ Maggie’s House, a local hospice, as their charity of the year and raised £9000 from events in Unipart House.

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Unipart colleagues raise funds for local children’s respite care charity

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Colleagues from Unipart, Cowley have donated £792.00 to Rosy (Respite nursing for Oxfordshire’s Sick Youngsters) a charitable support group dedicated to the provision of additional respite care for terminally, acutely or chronically ill children and babies nursed at home.

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Unipart cricket match raises funds for Ataxia UK

Monday, July 27, 2015

Colleagues from Unipart Cowley donned their cricket whites to take part in a fund raising cricket match to raise awareness and money for the charity Ataxia UK.

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Unipart Dorman raises funds for Kids bike charity

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

An amazing team from Unipart Dorman handed over a cheque for £2015 to Cyclists Fighting Cancer (CFC), a charity that gives new bikes, tandems and specially adapted trikes to children and young people who have been affected by cancer.

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Local businesses help raise career aspirations of Oxfordshire youth

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

150 school students from Oxford Academy took part in an exciting and interactive speed career networking session with Oxford employers like Unipart

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Unipart Logisitcs helps raise vital funds for Brain Tumour research

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The ‘Bright Sparks’ team from Unipart Logistics took top prize in a charity quiz night to help raise vital funds needed for brain tumour research. The quiz night, in aid of the Brain Tumour Charity, was hosted by global recruitment group Hays and raised over £450 for this nationwide charity.

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Local Children’s Centre benefits from Easter Egg donation

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

As part of its on going support for The Riversley Children's Centre in Nuneaton, this Easter UTL colleagues together with staff from GI Group who work on the UTL Nuneaton site. donated over 200 Easter eggs for local families.

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Unipart runners raise over £870 for local children’s hospital charity

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Battling through the wind and rain Unipart Strivers – a team from Unipart Oxford – came out tops at the recent Oxford Mail OX5RUN charity run on behalf of Oxford Children’s Hospital and raised over £870 in the process.

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Winning Unipart Rail team raises fund for Macmillan Nurses

Friday, March 27, 2015

Members from Unipart Rail’s Engineering department were part of the winning team in a local charity football tournament to raise money for Macmillan Nurses.

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Red Nose fun by Unipart colleagues raises funds for Comic Relief

Monday, March 23, 2015

Colleagues from Unipart’s Oxford site were busy raising money on Friday 13th March for this year's Red Nose Day in aid of Comic Relief.

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Unipart Ghost Walk Raises Money for Cancer Charity

Sunday, March 22, 2015

A 'ghost walk' in Oxford helped raise £230 for Maggie's hospice. Pictured: Bill Spectre, television's Dr. Ciaran O'Keeffe and Mark Timbs from Unipart.

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Unipart and ‘Back on Trax’ keep cycling colleagues on the road

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Understanding the importance of bike safety and reliability and with many colleagues relying on bike as their daily mode of transport, Unipart together with Back on Trax bicycle repair company, provided a free bike service to colleagues at the Unipart Oxford site.

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Colleagues in red raise over £673

Monday, March 9, 2015

By rummaging through their wardrobes and dressing in red, colleagues at Unipart’s headquarters in Cowley, Oxford helped raise £673.85 for the British Heart Foundation’s Wear it Beat it campaign which is helping to raise awareness and funds for life-saving cardiovascular research.

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Valentine’s Cake Sale Raises £345

Monday, March 9, 2015

A Valentine's cake sale at Unipart House helped to raise £345.53 for Maggie's Oxford Centre, the support charity for people with cancer and their families. Maggie's was chosen as the Unipart House community team's charity of the year. In December, the team raised £262 for Maggie's through a 'breakfast with Santa' event.

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Unipart six-a-side football team helps raise cash for local Carnival

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Footballers from Unipart took part in a charity football contest held to raise funds for the forthcoming Cowley Road Carnival.

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Unipart Logistics colleagues raise funds for Prostate Cancer charity

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Colleagues at UTL in Burton raised over £1,290 for Prostate Cancer UK, after being inspired by a work colleague, who just a month earlier had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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Christmas collection helps raise funds for GOSH

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Father Christmas and his helpers collected over £300 for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) from colleagues at Unipart's head office and distribution centre in Cowley, Oxford.

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Breakfast with Santa event helps raise funds for Maggies

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Breakfast with Santa event and Raffle at Unipart helps raise funds for cancer support charity.

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Unipart Cowley colleagues raise over £500 for Movember

Monday, December 15, 2014

More than £500 was raised during this year’s furry-faced fuelled fundraising at Unipart’s logistics site in Cowley.

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Unipart hosts business continuity conference for Oxfordshire

Friday, December 5, 2014

Unipart conference on business continuity planning featured experts from Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford Brookes and the RAC.

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Generation Talent Knowledge Swap

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Unipart hosted Oxfordshire businesses for a knowledge swap about Generation Talent is a joint initiative between BITC and The Department for Work and Pensions that aims to get young people into work.

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Grand Total for Children in Need

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Over £1,000 was raised for BBC Children in Need by employees at Unipart Oxford.

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Unipart Logistics raffle raises funds for West Midlands Air Ambulance

Monday, November 10, 2014

In a raffle that raised funds for West Midlands Air Ambulance, lucky winner Jon Tomkins takes home a Jaguar for the weekend.

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Spooky Bakers Raise Over £100 for Maggies

Friday, November 7, 2014

A Halloween cake sale at Unipart House raised over £109 for Maggie’s, the cancer charity in Oxford.

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Over £5,000 raised for automotive charity BEN

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

TTC colleagues, friends and family raised over £5,100 for BEN, the automotive industry charity, when they tackled the famous Yorkshire 3 Peaks. In total 30 walkers/climbers set off to conquer Pen-y-Ghent (691 metres), Whernside (728 metres) and Ingleborough (723 metres) with a walking distance of 24.5 miles. The team did this in less than 12

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Coffee morning at Unipart helps raise funds for Macmillan

Friday, October 17, 2014

Unipart's recent coffee morning at Unipart House helped raise over £220 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

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Unipart’s drive-in movie event helps raise funds for Maggies

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Local residents and businesses enjoyed five nights of films and raised £260 for Maggies at Unipart's recent "American Style" drive-in movie event held during the Photography Oxford festival.

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Unipart team supports High Sheriff ‘Olympic Style’ challenge

Thursday, October 16, 2014

The Unipart ‘athletes’ took part in the Oxfordshire sporting event at the Sir Roger Bannister stadium to raise funds for the High Sheriff Challenge

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Unipart Dragon Boat team raises £2k for Maggie’s cancer care charity

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Colleagues from Unipart paddled and drummed their way along the River Thames as they competed in this year’s Abingdon Dragon Boat Race to raise money for for Maggie’s Centres - a charity with centres located in the grounds of major NHS cancer hospitals, offering support that people with cancer, and their friends and relatives, desperately need.

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UTL pulls out all the stops for local foodbank charity

Thursday, August 28, 2014

UTL's Nuneaton Distribution Team came to the rescue and helped transport over 100 boxes of donations for a local foodbank charity.

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UTL Fun Day raises £450 for Macmillan

Thursday, August 28, 2014

UTL's Fun Day was a great success, fun was had by all and £450 was raised for Macmillan Cancer Support.

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Unipart Graduates Take on the Wolf Run – And Survive!

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Ten Unipart graduates have taken on the Wolf Run - a gruelling annual run that defeats even the fittest - and have survived! Raising over £1841 for the charity MIND

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Unipart House Gets into the World Cup Spirit

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Colleagues at Unipart House collect football shirts for disadvantaged children and young adults in Sao Paulo – one of the hosting venues for the 2014 World Cup…

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Unipart House Team of Runners Raise £2,600 for the Oxford Children’s Hospital

Friday, April 25, 2014

A team of 19 enthusiastic Unipart employees from Unipart House, Oxford took part in the recent OX5 run at Blenheim Palace. Running under the aptly named “Unipart Rarely Athletic Team”, they finished an admirable 4th in the team competition.

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Unipart House Raises Over £300 for Sport Relief

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

From chocolate cakes to afternoon tea scones, the bakers did us proud.

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Unipart House gets Competitive with a Bake Off

Friday, March 14, 2014

For Sport Relief this year, Unipart House will be getting competitive with a Bake-Off, plus colleagues will be "Wearing Something Sporty".

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6 Nations Dress Down Day Raises over £400 for Maggie’s Oxford

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Fundraising for Maggie’s Oxford has got off the ground with £410 being raised in just one day. For Unipart House’s first Dress Down Day this year, the theme was the 6 Nations Rugby, with colleagues wearing their favourite team’s Rugby shirts. A further £200 was raised by colleagues who gave samples of blood to a medical research company – the monies they received was then donated to our nominated charity.

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Unipart Group To Support Maggie’s Oxford Throughout 2014

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

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Santa and his Elves Pay Flying Visit to Nuneaton

Friday, December 13, 2013

Santa and his elves took a break in their busy schedule to deliver gifts to 80 local girls and boys at Utl Nuneaton.

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Unipart & Oxford United FC Host Talent Factory Open Day

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Unipart and Oxford United hosted an amazing day of logistics and sports based activities for 40 local 14-16 year olds. Students from Matthew Arnold School, St Gregory the Great and The Oxford Academy enjoyed a day of activities to give them practical insights into the world beyond school.

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Unipart raises over £2000 for Children in Need 2013!

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Unipart employees in Oxford raise £2,000 for Children in Need

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Utl Nuneaton stays warm in their “Onesies”

Friday, November 22, 2013

Proving that you can be the UK’s largest phone repair centre and raise money for a great cause, Utl’s Customer Services team at Nuneaton dressed up in their onesies for Children in Need and raised over £200 for this amazing fundraising night. This takes the grand total raised by Unipart sites to £2,200 – in

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Unipart Aftermarket Logistics Looks Pretty in Pink

Friday, November 22, 2013

Unipart Aftermarket Logistics’ Finance Team looked “pretty in pink” recently, raising over £360 into the bargain! The team dressed from head to toe in every shade of pink imaginable and encouraged others to donate to Breast Cancer Research. This worthy cause works tirelessly to promote awareness of Breast Cancer and supports research into future treatments for

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Unipart Supports Why? Event Linking Charities with Business

Monday, November 18, 2013

The WHY? event, Oxford on November 2013 was sponsored by Unipart Conference Centre. Turning the concept of businesses supporting charities on its head as charities and social enterprises showcased the valuable offering they have for local businesses and other employers, which also adds social value to their organisations. After the event, Grant Hayward, from the

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Unipart’s Biggest Coffee Morning Raises Over £800

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Unipart people have helped to raise over £800 as part of The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, by baking a mountain of cakes and cookies and holding a hugely successful Unipart coffee morning. The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning sees thousands of people across the UK holding coffee mornings where donations

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UTL Takes on the Tandem Challenge for Beating Bowel Cancer

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Our colleagues at Unipart Technology Logistics are known for rising to the challenge and delivering outstanding service, however nobody thought they would transfer this passion and dedication to a “400 miles in 4 days” cycle challenge to raise money for Beating Bowel Cancer. And to make it even more of a team event, they will

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Unipart raises over £500 for Jeans for Genes

Thursday, October 3, 2013

1 in 25 children in the UK has a genetic disorder that makes life very difficult for them – that’s more than 30,000 babies each year. Jeans for Genes Day is an annual fundraising day dedicated to raising money for this worthwhile charity. This year our colleagues at Unipart raised over £500 by wearing their

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Mobis and Unipart Teams Support Local Children’s Cancer Charity

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

A team from Unipart Aftermarket Logistics at Tamworth, working with their colleagues at Mobis have succeeded in raising over £350 in under 8 weeks for a local children’s cancer charity, “Bethany’s Wish”. Running a series of events including “a stock exchange” – whereby senior leaders willingly placed themselves in stocks to be pelted with wet

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Unipart Encourages Local Talent into Logistics’ Careers

Friday, July 5, 2013

As national reports spotlight the value of work experience in combating youth unemployment, a group of Oxford’s most talented young people are being put through their paces with one of the county’s leading employers. Enthusiastic 14-17 year olds from The Oxford Academy and Gosford Hill School have spent an intensive and fast-paced week at Unipart

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Unipart Teams Up with Local Mental Health Charity, Oxfordshire Mind

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Unipart’s HR specialists have teamed up with a local mental health charity, Oxfordshire Mind, to offer job and interview skills training for volunteers that work with people who have experienced mental ill health. The workshops have led to over half of the participants finding employment or volunteering opportunities to consolidate and build upon their skills

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Unipart Consumer Logistics take on the Three Peaks challenge

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Throughout the course of the year, UCL will be organising a series of exciting charity events involving as many employees from across UCL sites as we can muster. The first of these planned events is the 3 Peaks Challenge. During the weekend of 19th- 21st June, a team of 30 volunteers from across the Cowley,

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KUL Team Raises Money for Wishes for Kids

Friday, May 24, 2013

A team from Unipart Manufacturing Group in Coventry has raised more than £2600 for a children’s wish granting charity. 25 people from Kautex Unipart, a fuel tank manufacturer in Canley, raised money for the Wishes 4 Kids charity after completing the Wolf Run near Warwick earlier in 2013. The 10k off-road course saw them overcome

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Unipart Consumer Logistics Supports Local Soldiers to Gain New Skills

Friday, May 24, 2013

Unipart Logistics has provided a group of Bicester-based soldiers with a unique opportunity to gain a hands-on insight into the operations of a global logistics company. Soldiers from 23 Pioneer Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps attended a specially designed two week course provided by Unipart Consumer Logistics at the company’s global headquarters in Oxford. Unipart is

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Unipart Logistics Works Alongside Oxford United to Develop Young Talent

Friday, May 24, 2013

Unipart has embarked on an ambitious programme of collaborative initiatives between Unipart and local schools in the communities within which it operates. The programme aims to connect with up to 200 schools in three regions across the UK. Working with Oxford United in Oxfordshire, Coventry Rugby Club in Warwickshire and Doncaster Rovers in Yorkshire – the

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Growing Oxfordshire’s Economy

Friday, May 24, 2013

Unipart has an enduring relationship with Oxfordshire as a county and with many of its business leaders. As one of only a handful of large companies within the county, Unipart has taken a leadership role in promoting the agenda of corporate responsibility amongst its peers. Nowhere has this been more prevalent than in Unipart’s support

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UTL Walk for Heroes

Friday, May 24, 2013

To mark a special Armistice Day 11/11/11 and raise money for Help for Heroes, the charity that supports the many men and women wounded serving their country since 9/11, members of the Unipart Technology Logistics operating committee walked 147 miles, and raised over £33,000 for the charity in the process. The Walk for Heroes team

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Burton’s Sleepout Raises £3,000 for the YMCA

Friday, May 24, 2013

On a blustery night in November, staff at Unipart Logistics’ Waterstones warehouse in Burton took part in their very first “Sleepout”, raising money for the work of Burton YMCA. Not only did they recruit 10 volunteers from their work force, but also encouraged a supplier to bring along a team too. The 2011 Sleepout was

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Reducing the Carbon Footprint in Oxford

Friday, May 24, 2013

Unipart is a member of the Oxford-based stakeholders which includes Local Government, Community Groups, University and Business organisations all working collaboratively towards the vision for a Low Carbon Oxford. The Low Carbon Oxford strategy is a ‘bottom up’ approach relying largely on action by businesses, communities and households working individually and in collaboration within a

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Helping Improve Opportunities for Those with Barriers to Employment

Friday, May 24, 2013

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), through its Charitable Trust, has teamed up with the Foyer Federation to support a programme aimed at encouraging young people to come and work in the automotive industry in the UK. The programme seeks to develop the skills of young people to enable them to be employable

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UTL Helps Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow

Friday, May 24, 2013

Unipart Technology Logistics (UTL) again inspired young students from across Warwickshire to develop essential business skills including innovation, teamwork, financial capability and business acumen, at the same time as raising invaluable funds for local charities as part of the Unipart Challenge. The ‘Unipart Challenge’ – run for the past two years – is sponsored and

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Developing Business Skills in a Local School

Friday, May 24, 2013

UEES, Unipart’s manufacturing site in Coventry, continues to develop strong community links with Holbrook Primary School, which located adjacent the site. For the third year running, our Manufacturing Group is supporting and enabling the study of science, technology, engineering and maths topics with the very youngest people in our community. With both financial support and

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