Building Trust Through Giving Back: Our Charity and Sponsorship Commitments

Jane on March 20, 2024

Introducing Our Commitment

For the last 12 years we have committed to many different local charities and organisations. We want to give back to the community and we feel this is the best way to do it.

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Making a Difference

Throughout 2024 we have committed to the following organisations:

FFSC Sponsorship

We continue to sponsor the Felixstowe Ferry Sailing club (FFSC) which offers a great way to get out on the water. With the North Sea and the River Deben on the doorstep, this enables a wide variety of watersports. 

The sailing schedule includes regular sailing (racing and for pleasure) for the members. There are dinghies available for hire too.

There is a rowing section that goes out at various regular times of the week. 

Yachting is another option, although the members do own their own boats.

The club runs a training centre that offers RYA sailing and powerboat training courses to all ages. 

Youth sailing is available for ages 10-18 years old. There is a variety of sailing which includes getting RYA sailing qualifications.

There is a great restaurant and bar for the members and their guests.

In May 2024 an Open day is being held during which the club will offer free sailing & rowing taster sessions.  

In August 2024 there is also a National 12 championship scheduled. This includes the best of the National 12 sailors coming to Felixstowe from all over the UK.

Jane has been a member for nearly 60 years. Here is the history of her attachment to the club.

Home-Start in Suffolk

The Home-Start in Suffolk charity approached Jane to partake in the ‘Jail & Bail’ event. It was held in March 2024. The idea was to arrest Jane, AKA ‘The Container Queen’, for the crime of being ‘Too Boxtastic’, then take her to Woodbridge town hall (the old Jail back in the day) and she had to raise £1,000 to get bail. 

Jane raised just under £1,200 (thanks to many local friends, family and businesses). Jane was arrested with another 9 local business people. The whole group raised £12,000. Phew, thankfully she got released!

In May 2024 the Moonlight Ball is happening again and Billie Box has sponsored a table for the night. Jane has also committed to helping collect raffle and auction prizes and selling raffle tickets on the night. Let’s hope this raises some much-needed funds for this worthy charity.

Jane has reached out to many local businesses that are supporting the Moonlight ball. These include:

Yeseo, 1975 Winebar Woodbridge, Ruth Leigh writes, MCP Plc., Polyspiral Web Design, Simply C Photography, Natasha is Wideeyed, Woodbridge Book shop, Chaffinch, The Burgess Group, Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club, Christopher Montrose coffee, Busy Bee Cosmetics, and Yoga with Manon. 

If you are a local business wishing to get involved then please call Jane on  01473 557409 to pledge your support.

Home-Start charity offers a service to around 2500 families in need throughout Suffolk. Volunteers help families to cope with family life. These families may have money worries, mental health issues, or may just be needing a friend to talk to. It is a much-needed local service. 

Lighthouse Charity

Billie Box has offered a raffle prize for the Anglia business exhibition in May 2024. The Lighthouse charity offers shelter to those men and women being abused in our local area.

Felixstowe Book Festival

Billie Box has sponsored the Felixstowe Book Festival event once before and as Jane is a keen reader, she felt that it would be worth supporting again this year.

The event runs from 26th to 30th June with various authors showcasing their new books. It attracts many visitors from the local area and from further afield.

The event is held in Felixstowe (the largest port in the UK).

Suffolk Sounds Radio Station

Jane from Billie Box has been on Jules Button’s Suffolk Sounds radio show a few times and has offered to sponsor this ‘Non-profit making’ radio station.

Supporting Causes Together

We have been trading for 12 years now and have gathered a network of business contacts that often help support our requests. We thank them for their support, as it is always much appreciated.

As a local business, we understand how difficult it can be out there. We really wanted to give back to the local community. 

We thank you for all your support and will try to continue to support local charities and businesses as we have done before.

How You Can Get Involved: Join Us in Making a Difference

Please follow and offer to volunteer or support these charities and businesses. The more help they can get, the better.

Here is a list of their websites:

Jail & Bail 2024

Jane on February 8, 2024

Jane is going to be locked up in Woodbridge on 8th March 2024 in aid of Home-Start Suffolk

Jane Billing of Billie Box alias the ‘Container Queen‘ is going to be locked up because she is being too ‘Box-Tastic’ .

Update 18-Mar-24: Many thanks for your kind support, I raised over £1.5K and as a group we raised over £12k

Please can you bail Jane out by donating to her Justgiving page here ?

All the funds go to Home-Start Suffolk to help those families that really are struggling with many life issues, that many of us don’t experience.

Billie Box have been supporting Home-Start Suffolk for over 5 years now. Billie Box have food shopped for these families, donated food vouchers and supported various fundraising events. Billie Box wants to support local charities, because Suffolk is close to her heart.

View this video to see who else is being locked up….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2R5LQtuNhw

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We raised £2,630.46 for Myeloma UK

Jane on October 4, 2019

Billie Box raised £2,630.46 for Myeloma UK

Billie Box is proud to report that they raised £2,630.46 for Myeloma UK at their Afternoon Tea in September. This makes the total raised and donated over £30,000 for many charities such as Cancer Campaign in Suffolk, St. Elizabeth Hospice, Papworth Trust, Clic Sargent, Age UK Suffolk, Families in need Food bank, Centrepoint (homeless charity), Tiffers Bus, Ipswich and now Myeloma UK.

The Afternoon tea was held at the Longshed in Woodbridge on Saturday, 7th September 2019 and Billie Box had over 90 guests, all enjoying the tea provided by Woodbridge Emporium and the cakes by Tori’s Tasty Treats. Tom Sanderson was singing and playing guitar throughout the event and there were a couple of presentation talks, one from the Longshed and another about Myeloma itself.

Myeloma is a form of incurable blood cancer originating in the bone marrow. The causes of myeloma are not fully understood but it is thought to be caused by a complex interaction of both genetic and environmental factors.

Billie Box has had huge support from many local businesses that include:

Woodbridge Emporium, Tori’s Tasty Treats, Yeseo SEO Agency, Bodylines Beauty Salon, Woodbridge Tannery, Dzo card shop in Woodbridge, Chaffinch in Woodbridge, Woodbridge Greengrocers, Jane Hamerton, Suffolk Sails, Treewaters, Christopher Montrose coffee, Author:Adrian Smith, Yoga with Manon, JDM Haulage, Pinnacle Body Movement, Tropic Skincare, Joules in Woodbridge, Maritime Cargo Processing Plc., .

HSBC match-funded a proportion of the funds and Absolutely Natural clothing also had a stand outside the Riverside theatre,Woodbridge on the day and they kindly donated a percentage of their sales from the day.

Jane Billing, owner of Billie Box said “I would like to convey my thanks to all the supporters of our event; we really couldn’t have done it without you. Myeloma is not well known and we wanted to make the public aware of this awful illness, which affects many people around the UK.”.

Here some video of the event:

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Afternoon Tea 2019

Jane on June 17, 2019

Billie Box is holding an Afternoon Tea in aid of Myeloma UK on Saturday, 7th September 2019 between 2 and 5pm at the Longshed, Woodbridge, IP12 1FP.

Billie Box has been fundraising over the last 7 years and has raised over £24,000 for many different charities. Cancer campaign in Suffolk, Papworth Trust, Age UK Suffolk, St. Elizabeth Hospice, Centrepoint and Families in Need to name a few.

This year Billie Box’s chosen charity is Myeloma UK. Myeloma is a Blood cancer that can affect around 17,500 people around the UK at one time. This charity supports those living with the cancer and their families.   

Please do buy a ticket for our Afternoon Tea and help us support this great charity.

Afternoon tea, Billie Box fundraising, charity, Myeloma UK, Blood cancer,
Please do call us for your tickets today 01473 557409

Our Itinery:

2 pm arrival with tea

2.15 pm Talk by Chairman of the Longshed

2.45 pm Food is served

3.45 pm Raffle

5 pm Carriages

Car Parking

There is no car parking at the Longshed, however, you can park at the Woodbridge Station car park or behind the Woodbridge swimming pool car park then walk along to Tide mill way.

In front of Riverside theatre area, there will be a stand: Absolutely Natural clothes stand. Tanya and Wendy have offered to give a percentage of their sales to Myeloma UK. Many thanks to Tanya and Wendy for their support.

Billie Box has many supporters of this event, they are as follows:

Tori’s Tasty Treats

Woodbridge Emporium, 66 Thoroughfare, Woodbridge

Treewaters Control systems

Dzo Dzo, 28 Thoroughfare, Woodbridge

The Tannery, 6 Thoroughfare, Woodbridge

Adrian Smith – Writer of ‘The run to end all runs‘

Yeseo SEO Agency

Christopher Montrose Coffee

Jane Hamerton – personalised towels

Suffolk Sails

Tom Sanderson – will be playing guitar throughout the event, courtesy of Andrew Laws Associates.

JDM Haulage

Chaffinch, New Street, Woodbridge

Woodbridge Greengrocers, The Turban centre, Woodbridge

Yoga with Manon

Joules, The Thoroughfare, Woodbridge

Pinnacle Body Movement

If you are a local business, we are looking for raffle prizes, so it would be great to hear from you too.

If you can’t make the event, then we have a donation page on Facebook.

Here is our booking form, please download today to get your tickets.

Billie Box Afternoon tea Booking Form 2019

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