Big Charity Challenge 2025 raises record £62k

Published on: December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM

Unipart’s Big Charity Challenge raised its highest ever total of £62,679 for more than 30 charities around the world.

Every year Unipart teams choose a local charity to benefit from a period of focused fundraising, hosting fun and engaging activities and events.

Fundraising for this year’s challenge included:

  • Unipart’s Cowley Distribution Centre raising £7,368 for Helen & Douglas House, a provider of hospice care for babies and children in Oxfordshire and surrounding counties, with a range of events including a pool tournament, a racing simulator, and an Oxford United football shirt raffle.

  • Unipart’s Nuneaton site raising £4,902 for British Heart Foundation, the biggest independent funder of research into cardiovascular disease in the UK, with a human slot machine, BBQ, and football darts game.

  • Unipart’s Hexthorpe site raising £1,708 for Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, a charity supporting hundreds of children from across Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, with activities including a keepie-uppie challenge, longest putt competition, and a raffle.

  • Unipart’s Dordon site raising £1,909 for Tamworth Wellbeing Cancer Support Centre, a charity supporting people and their families coping with cancer and other chronic illnesses, with activities that include a football shootout, an international snack sale, and a silent auction.

  • Unipart’s Marketing Team raising £1,135 for Adapt Prem Babies, a charity supporting families with premature babies on neonatal units in Leicester, with a number of bake sales for colleagues.

Unipart Chief Executive Darren Leigh said: “I am so proud to have seen the levels of engagement and passion for this year’s Big Charity Challenge. To raise such a significant sum of money for so many vital charities around the world is a true testament to the spirit of our people and their commitment to making a genuine difference in their communities. 

“Our annual charity challenge is growing year on year, consisting of more and more activities, raising awareness for new charities, and engaging even more colleagues. I’d like to wholeheartedly thank every single colleague, partner, and member of our communities who supported our fundraising efforts – only by coming together in this way can we have such a profound, longlasting impact.”