The lucky winner of the East Anglian Copdock Bike Show charity draw visited our showroom to collect his fabulous prize.
Steven Chinery was delighted to be presented with the Suzuki GSX-8S that we were proud to supply to help a good cause.
The annual bike show’s prize draw this year raised £7,000 for SERV Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, also known as the Bloodrunners, from the sale of tickets for the award-winning naked middleweight motorbike.
Around £400 of the total was raised through ticket sales at our dealership so a huge thank you to all customers who purchased raffle tickets.
More than 30 members of Copdock Classic Motorcycle Club and SERV visited our Ranelagh Road showroom in Ipswich on Saturday for the handover of the motorbike to Steven and the £7,000 cheque presentation.
Orwell Motorcycles hopes to continue helping with the Copdock charity bike raffle for many years to come.
The Bloodrunners provide an essential service to local NHS hospitals, air ambulance services, human-donated milk banks, hospices, pharmacies and vulnerable patients by transporting urgently needed blood, blood products, patient samples, donated human breast milk, medicine and medical equipment.
SERV Suffolk and Cambridgeshire was launched in 2011 with Ipswich Hospital, closely followed by West Suffolk Hospital. It started delivering to Peterborough City Hospital, Papworth and Hinchingbrooke Hospitals in 2012.
That same year it also launched the donor baby milk service to support premature babies in the hospital maternity units of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and, when requested, throughout the UK.
SERVSC was awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the equivalent of an MBE, in 2019.
The Covid-19 crisis in 2020 saw its workload grow significantly so volunteers increased their availability to 24 hours a day, every day, and it became a Charity Incorporated Organisation.
It has about 160 volunteers, including duty controllers who take calls and organise volunteer motorcyclists and car drivers. They give their time, and mostly use their own vehicles, free of charge to deliver items where needed within hours.
SERVSC receives no government funding and relies on donations from the public, local businesses, charitable grants and awards to cover its costs. It has no paid staff.
Find out more about SERVSC at servsc.org.uk