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Amazon Filters team members prepare for Twilight Runway Challenge
12th September 2024
Team members at Amazon Filters are limbering up to run, walk, cycle, hop, skateboard or scoot up to 10km around the runway of Blackbushe Airport in aid of a charity challenge.
The Surrey-based filter manufacturer is supporting the Twilight Runway Challenge organised by its charity partner CMPP, the Community Matters Partnership.
It’s the second year in a row that Amazon Filters has sponsored the family-friendly twilight run, which enables participants to raise money for charities and schools of their choice.
Under the CMPP partnership, the firm has been able to offer a discount to employees who wish to enter and it held a staff draw for five free tickets.
The challenge is open to all ages and abilities and is the flagship fundraising event of the year for CMPP, with around 40 different charities set to benefit.
Ruth Pappadakis, Head of People and Culture at Amazon Filters, said: “Supporting and taking part in Twilight Runway Challenge is a fantastic way to give something back to the community where we live and work.”
Amazon Filters also support CMPP through paid staff volunteering days, with 55 days of hands-on work provided on various community projects last year.
They included beach cleans, grounds improvement in a school playground, maintenance at a hospice and a leaf-clearing day outside a respite centre for families in crisis
According to CMPP, Amazon Filters’ involvement in 2023 equated to £5,225 worth of help across the multiple organisations it supports.
Anthea Rastall, Fundraising and Events Manager for CMPP, said: “We are thrilled to have the continued support of Amazon Filters as one of the headline sponsors of our Twilight Runway Challenge.
“Our partnership with Amazon Filters is invaluable and instrumental in the success of this event!
“The Twilight Runway Challenge truly couldn’t achieve what it does without Amazon Filters’ patronage.”
The five Amazon Filters staff who won tickets to enter the Twilight Run are: Wayne Spooner, Housing Component Manufacturing Team Leader; Jacqui Morris and Yvonne Hinton, both Senior Despatch Administrators; Aaron Godinho, Internal Sales Engineer; and Michael Etherton, Housing Stores Team Member.
The Twilight Runway Challenge takes place at Blackbushe Airport, Camberley, GU17 9LQ, on Saturday 21 September 2024, with gates opening at 4pm ahead of a start time of 5.15pm.
For more information, visit https://www.twilightchallenge.co.uk/.
