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Maggie’s Cycle Challenge 2020

GM Developments and GM London jointly sponsored a new cycling challenge organised by the Maggie’s Centres charity.

GM Developments and GM London jointly sponsored a new cycling challenge organised by the Maggie’s Centres charity who provide invaluable cancer care support to families. This support has been even more important this year due to the impact of Covid 19. As with other charities the constraints coronavirus put on fund raising affected Maggie’s so it was especially gratifying that the bike ride was able to take place between the two lockdowns! A joint GM Developments and GM London team of six volunteered to take part choosing the 40 mile route around the Surrey Hills including Box Hill, starting and finishing at Box Hill School. A huge thank you to everyone who kindly made donations to our just giving page, the day raised just over £25,000 which will go towards the running of the centre based at the Royal Marsden in Surrey.

GM Developments 30th anniversary

To celebrate GM Developments 30th anniversary we hosted a party at The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, home of the Chelsea Pensioners.

To celebrate GM Developments 30th anniversary we hosted a party at The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, home of the Chelsea Pensioners. This provided an excellent opportunity to catch up with people we have worked with over the years both on a client and professional basis. The wonderful surroundings, good food and wine and fabulous weather all accompanied by a string quartet meant a great time was had by all. It has been an eventful journey and it will be exciting to see what the future holds.

GM Developments are proud to support Maggie’s Cancer Care

GM Developments are proud to support Maggie’s Cancer Care based at The Royal Marsden.

GM Developments are proud to support Maggie’s Cancer Care based at The Royal Marsden. Maggie’s is a charity founded by Maggie and Charles Jencks. Using her own experience of living with Cancer and wanting to create a new type of care for those diagnosed with cancer and their families the charity now has centres around the UK providing support and professional help covering treatment side effects, stress and money worries amongst other things.

To quote Maggie Jencks “Above all what matters most is not to lose the joy of living in the fear of dying”

We sponsored the centres Christmas Party in December 2019 and the official opening by the charity’s President HRH The Duchess of Cornwall in February 2020 and were lucky enough to be invited to the event.

We are also sponsoring the Surrey Cycle Ride around the Surrey Hills that has been postponed to October 2020 due to Covid 19. The upside is it will give our team of riders more time to train for either the 80 or 40 mile route.

If you would like to donate to the charity please visit their web site maggies.org

The Red Rubber Ball’s 100 Club

We have also made another donation to the The Red Rubber Ball’s 100 Club that works with young children in Kenya. Our donation will help them open more clubs in other areas including rural villages. The project keeps young kids off the streets of Nairobi...

The project keeps young kids off the streets of Nairobi in the Kibera slums. We teach them to ride a bike, how to maintain their bikes, then take them on rides at weekends and in school holidays.

The only rule is that children must attend school if they are to join the club.

Attendance has increased; children have formed new friends; they are staying out of trouble and away from drugs, gangs, glue sniffing, crime etc. They are learning new skills, have learned to share and work together. And they’re having fun.

The Red Rubber Ball Foundation

GM Developments are proud to be a part of the Red Rubber Ball Foundation’s 100 Club, which gives children and community leaders in the poorest parts of Kenya the chance to escape poverty. Donations from the 100 Club have helped to cover all travel, accommodation and venue costs for the foundation’s 2014 ‘Anything is Possible’ workshop, with 62 sponsored children in Nairobi, and enabled 15 young Kenyans to take part in ‘Mpango Kiongozi’ – the Leaders Challenge – to climb Kilimanjaro. Since 2016, The 100 Club has allowed the foundation to build a fund to offer interest-free, but repayable, student loans so that sponsored students can continue their studies on to university and college.

Being born in Kenya Chris Frome was interested in what the foundation are doing, especially the cycle club and he has been given one of their jerseys. We are told he is delighted with it.

London to Brighton Bike Ride 2016

Garry, our Managing Partner, completed this challenge with his daughter, Rosie, and raised £3,000 for charity. They would like to thank all clients, staff and subcontractors who kindly donated, it is hugely appreciated.

Wimbledon Village Fair

GM Developments is a continuing sponsor of the Wimbledon Village Fair, which is the major fund raising event for The Wimbledon Guild. The Wimbledon Guild is a charity that supports the community of Merton, through providing advice and counselling services...

Putney High School Star Ball 2016

GM Developments sponsored the Star Ball, which was held to celebrate the milestone of 25,000 girls studying at Putney High School. The event, which was at The Bank of England Sports Centre, was enjoyed by all that attended.

Putney High School Autumn Fair 2015

GM Developments sponsored the ‘Ministry of Science’ show at the Putney High Autumn Fair, organised by ‘Friends of Putney High’. This year’s fair had record numbers of attendance, and brilliant weather all day!

Team Finlay Fighting Blindness Charity Ball

It was our pleasure to sponsor the Team Finlay charity, which is led by the amazing Finlay himself! Finlay is a local young boy who has Retinitis Pigmentosa, an inherited disease that means he is slowly going blind. However, this has not stopped him from living life to the full and carrying out vital fund raising for research that is currently happening at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

London to Paris Bike Ride 2014

Our Managing Partner, Garry, undertook this mammoth fund raising challenge in 2014. His chosen charity was Trinity Hospice, and he managed to raise £7,000 for this extremely worthy cause. He would like to say a huge thank you to our clients, staff and sub...

Thomas’s football tour to Brazil

We were delighted to sponsor the school’s football tour of Brazil. Their trip consisted of an exciting schedule of coaching sessions in, and matches of, football and beach football.

The Vitality British 10K London Run

Garry McHugh completed the Vitality British 10K charity run in London, raising almost £4,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Stem4 sponsorship

GM Developments has sponsored charity stem4, who aim to stem teenage mental illness and improve teenage mental health, through workshops in schools and their comprehensive and informative website. They focus on four main areas; eating disorders, self-harm...

Help for Heroes

GM Developments donate to the charity ‘Help for Heroes’.