Pound Gates aims to raise £5,000 through The Cycling Challenge for Soma Leo

Throughout the month of May, staff from across the Pound Gates Group (Pound Gates, Sevatas and Contior) are taking part in The Cycling Challenge for Soma Leo. The Challenge will raise funds for The Soma Leo Foundation, our charity that provides primary aged education to 175 children in the deprived …

Sport Relief guru visits Ipswich to help future sports stars

The man who trained, motivated and successfully coached the likes of David Walliams, Eddie Izzard, John Bishop and many other household names, to complete extraordinary challenges in aid of Sport Relief and Comic Relief was in Ipswich today (Friday 17 March) to help raise money for up and coming sportsmen and …

Olympic javelin medallist, Goldie Sayers, throws her support behind young sporting prospects from Suffolk

2008 Beijing Javelin bronze medallist Goldie Sayers was in Ipswich on Friday 14 October to help raise vital funding to help talented young sportsmen and women from Suffolk achieve their sporting dreams. Sayers, from Newmarket, had an illustrious sporting career that saw her compete for Team GB in three Olympic …

£2,000 Grant for Ipswich Sports Club for the Disabled

Pound Gates recently awarded a grant of £2,000 to Ipswich Sports Club for the Disabled, raised through our Acorn Fund, a partnership between Pound Gates and Suffolk Community Foundation. Ipswich Sports Club for the Disabled, run entirely by volunteers, provides facilities for sport and social activities for people with disabilities …

Soccer legend helps restart fundraising lunch club after covid break

League, FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners Cup winner and England football international Paul Merson has helped the Ipswich Sporting Lunch Club to restart after a two year break due to the pandemic. The club, which was launched in 2015 to raise vital funds to enable SportsAid to …