It was a great opportunity to officially present the cheque for £3,500 the team raised following our Tough Mudder challenge earlier this year.
A very exciting day!
Every year ‘wear it pink’ raises around £2 million during breast cancer awareness month for the UK’s largest cancer charity.
October is breast cancer awareness month, a worldwide campaign to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. The aim, by funding cutting-edge research is to ensure no one dies from breast cancer by 2050.
They have raised £28.9 million to date, so this year KFA will be ‘getting our pink on’! On the day we are planning a fun sweepstake, cake, goodies and there will be balloons, bunting, all things pink.
Anyone can get involved on Friday 21st October 2016 – at home, in school or at work – just grab, bake, eat or buy something pink – and of course wear it pink to help raise vital funds for cancer research.
On the Day…
We had great fun on the day, raising over £60.00 just from holding a sweepstake and cake sale. Check out Charlie the dog’s pink jacket!!
This October KFA were proud to sponsor the Pop 4 Diabetes ‘Child of Courage’ Awards.
Pop 4 Diabetes celebrated their 10th year anniversary in style, holding the event at the Bournemouth Hilton Hotel on Saturday, 15th October 2016 and KFA Connect were proud to be a part of it…quite literally.
The awards took place during an amazing Grease themed evening with our very own Lauren Elphick from the KFA Connect test team performing as ‘Rizzo’.
Eastenders stars Harry Reid and Jamie Borthwick presented the awards and were on hand to give Lauren some well-earned attention following her performance!
Pop 4 Diabetes is fundraising research into a cure for Type 1 Diabetes and this continued research and the support they have received means a cure has now become a real possibility.
The KFA team conquered Tough Mudder Half, London South on Saturday 17th September 2016 and gave it their all!!!
Raising money for Help for Heroes we manage to rope in friends, family (and even our kids to take part in the Mini Mudder), and many of us tackled our worst fears; heights, water, mud…and more mud!
Between us, we have raised over £3,500.00 for this worthy cause and are giving serious consideration to doing it again next year!
Our thanks to the friends and family who joined us on our mission and helped make the day a success and such great fun.
Ringwood saw its very first Carnival in 1929! Carnivals followed in 1931 and 1934, when the Coldstream Guards marched through the town in full dress uniform.
The first Carnival after the war was in 1950 and has continued every year since. The Carnival now acts as a focus for the local community and charitable groups.
The Ringwood Carnival Society is a registered charity, established to co-ordinate, manage and develop a guaranteed festival of fun for the whole family. Through this, the society aim to raise much-needed funds, making donations to local charities and good causes.
Join in the fun and support Ringwood – from 12.00 pm on Saturday 17th September 2016.
Our apprenticeship scheme combines on the job training with nationally recognised qualifications and we know that is a great way build a skilled and motivated workforce.
Dan is studying at Bournemouth & Poole College and is most looking forward to expanding on his knowledge and experience in Software Development.
We are thrilled that a ‘KFA Connect’ water pump has now been built in as a result of our support of AquAid!
We are aware that keeping our staff members hydrated will aid them to perform at their very best throughout the work day. As a result, we decided to invest in watercoolers from AquAid – and have done for a number of years now.
Our unique relationship with AquAid has also given our company the opportunity to help those less fortunate than ourselves, because with each purchase an automatic donation is made to the Africa Trust.
These funds are used to build ‘Elephant Pumps’ – a modified version of an age old Chinese rope pulley system. One such pump has now been installed in Zimbabwe, Africa on our behalf and it will be a much needed source of clean and fresh drinking water for many decades.
To date AquAid have built over 5,000 such Elephant Pumps across parts of Zimbabwe, Malawi and Liberia; and have donated £12 million to charity and helped bring a life-time supply of clean, fresh drinking water to more than 2 million people.
This week Cllr Michael Thierry, the Mayor of Ringwood officially launched the new KFA Connect HQ. Guest speaker and former Red Arrows commander Jas Hawker from Mission Excellence then gave us an amazing insight into how we can delight our customers by building high flying teams.
It was a great evening to celebrate the move to our new Ringwood offices which started with an insight into the 30-year history of KFA Connect by Richard Austin – New Business Director.
This was followed by the official launch by Cllr Michael Thierry – Mayor of Ringwood alongside KFA Connect Directors Juliet Ward and Richard Austin, raising a glass or two! (right).
Jas Hawker from Mission Excellence, former leader of the world famous Red Arrows display team and distinguished Royal Air Force fighter pilot then gave an inspiring talk to our guests and KFA team on how you can delight your customers by building high flying teams (below).
The move from Wimborne St. Giles to Ringwood not only makes KFA more accessible to our guests and clients it also gives us the additional space needed to continue the growth of the company in a really great working environment.
KFA Connect exhibited at the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce ‘Meet the Chamber & Business Exhibition’ event on 27th June 2016 at the Ageas Hilton.
The event was a great chance to network with visitors and also mingle with other Hampshire Chamber of Commerce members, giving us all the opportunity to make new connections.
As new members to the Chamber we also had the opportunity to showcase our company to the attendees and exhibitors.
Thank you if you visited our stand!
