Fundraising events
2024
A Day At The Races
On the 12th of September, the annual Clarksons Charity Giving Day saw teams across the globe take to their horses (a static exercise bike 🚲) to compete in a series of races, raising money for 5 Charities that The Clarkson Foundation has worked closely with: Dig Deep, Spread a Smile, The Lotus Flower, School of Hard Knocks and Renaissance Foundation.
An incredible £250k was raised meaning each of the charities received £50k - far surpassing our original targets, enabling them to follow through with their proposed projects.
Jockeys, prepare to saddle up. Spectators, dust off those fascinators! This year, Clarksons is off to the races!
This year team's of up to 10 jockeys took part in 3 rounds before reaching the final. Across each round, only the top 50% got through and the final saw the finest jockey's saddle up for the ascot racecourse - completing the course in the fastest time and being crowned the Clarksons Champions were 'Usain Boat', Dry Cargo's team of jockey's!
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2023
The Big Row for Dom and Remco
On the 13th of September, the annual Clarksons Charity Giving Day saw 27 teams across the globe take part in a rowing challenge, which raised money for Hospice in the Weald and Bowel Cancer UK in memory of Clarksons late colleagues Dominic Low and Remco Hemminga.
In tandem with the fundraising efforts from Clarksons staff, the Clarkson Foundation donated a total of £85,206 split 50/50 across both the Charities.
Endurance! Relay! Final Sprint!
Last year's rowing challenge was simple. Each team was made up of as many as 10 rowers. Across each round, the team's had the chance to get as many points as possible. The team with the most points at the end of the final round were crowned the Clarksons Champion.
2022
Survival of the Fittest
On the 29th of September, the annual Clarksons Charity Giving Day took place which saw 177 Clarksons employees, across 18 teams and 8 global offices compete in a 'Survival of the Fittest' challenge to help raise money for The Clarkson Foundation.
An incredible £250k was raised, which will help the Foundation fund a number of incredible projects, run by our inspirational charity partners. It is a fantastic achievement that will continue to make a positive impact.
Every rep counts!
Across five exercises of 45 seconds each, teams earned points by completing as many reps as possible. The top performers on each team then went through to a semi-final before one male, female and team were crowned The Clarksons Champion!
2021
Tour de Clarksons
The Tour de Clarksons charity event saw 23 teams from 11 of Clarksons’ global offices come together to raise money for The Clarkson Foundation in September 2021.
Each 10-person team competed in a three-hour endurance cycle on static bikes, with members able to rotate on and off to ensure fresh legs and energetic sprints to clock up the highest number of kilometres. All global teams competed at the same time. With a live stream through a virtual route as well as a live leaderboard feed, wherever people were in the world, they could tune in to view the action.
Join in the ride!
We had 23 teams from 11 global offices taking part in an epic virtual cycling endurance race.
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The Clarkson Foundation Board of Trustees Ingeborg Almas | Leo Askaroff | Lily-Rose Bagshaw | Richard Haines | Robert Knight | Kim-Eirik Ovesen | Dharani Sridharan | Kate Thompson | Jeff Woyda (Chair)
The Clarkson Foundation CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales (1191357). Registered address: Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1BF.