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Sponsorship for FFSC 2022/23

Billie Box are delighted to announce that they are sponsoring the following in 2022/23: Youth sailing at Felixstowe Ferry Billie Box are proud to sponsor Youth Sailing at Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club for another year. For more information about Youth Sailing, have a look at the FFSC website. FFSC Safety boat called Carl Giles We are equally proud to continue sponsoring the FFSC’s safety boat, named Carl Giles after the well-known cartoonist. To read more about the boat and its namesake, read our blog post all about the FFSC safety boat from when we started sponsoring it in 2018.…

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Charity 2020/21/22

Jane, Matt & Clare have been really busy over the last 10 years and as part of Billie Box’s business policy they have been supporting various charities in the local area and further afield. 2020-22 has seen a huge number of Covid cases, which has been a worrying time for many Worldwide households. 2022 Russia went to war with Ukraine. Oh my goodness what an awful time for the Ukrainian people. So with this thought Jane, Matt and Clare decided to donate to the Disasters Emergency Committee. Let’s hope that this donation goes a little to helping. 2022 Billie…

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Art at the Ferry 2020

Due to the COVID-19 Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club has postponed this event until 2nd and 3rd April 2021. Watch this space for updates. Billie Box will be sponsoring the 3rd Art at the Ferry in 2020. The event in 2019 was such a success, Jane Billing from Billie Box felt that sponsoring again would be such a great event to put Billie Box’s name to. Art at the Ferry is an annual event held at Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club, Felixstowe Ferry, Suffolk, IP11 9RZ and will be a 2 day event in 2020. The dates are Friday, 10th April…

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Art at the Ferry 2019

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Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club is hosting their second “Art at the Ferry” on Saturday, 20th April 2019 (Easter Saturday).  2018 was such a success the club thought they would do it again. There will be a number of local Artists showing their individual work, with exhibitors both selling and taking commissions. The event runs from 10am to 4pm at Felixstowe Ferry Sailing club, Felixstowe Ferry, IP11 9RZ There will be tea and coffee with sausage rolls and scones available from 10am with the Bar and Galley opening at Midday. There will be the Easter bunny draw for the children…

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Billie Box sponsors FFSC safety boat

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Billie Box is sponsoring the Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club (FFSC) Safety boat named: Carl Giles. Yes that’s right Carl Giles OBE, the world famous Cartoonist! Carl Giles safety boat at FFSC But why Carl Giles? Carl Giles was the President of the FFSC from 1984 to 1995. FFSC own the second largest collection of Carl Giles cartoons and many of the characters in the cartoons were members of the club. The largest collection is owned by the Daily Express, which is the newspaper Carl used to work for. FFSC is based at Felixstowe Ferry, Suffolk, at the mouth of…

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FFSC Lifeboat Day 2017

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Billie Box has sponsored a couple of different charities 2017. The first was FFSC Lifeboat weekend in September 2017. This event raised over £3000 for the Lifeboat – Fantastic work by all those concerned. Fundraising For Jane & Matt are members of the FFSC (Felixstowe Ferry Sailing club) and their sailing club is holding a whole weekend fundraising events for the Harwich RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution). RNLI is Such a worthy cause, they save lives at sea everyday of the year. RNLI is run by volunteers and rely on public donations to keep their organisation going. It cost…

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