Partners

PARTNERS

SKIDZ works in partnership with schools, Pupil Referral Units, Police, Fire Service, Youth Offending Service, Probation Service, the corporate sector and many other organisations as well as Local, District and County Councils.

THANK YOU –

SKIDZ students, staff, and Trustees thank all the very generous people and companies for their kind donations, grants, gifts in kind, sponsorship and support. Some gifts and grants are designated for specific items and purposes as you will see in our list below. Over the years we have gained huge support from many areas which comes together in a substantial bank of resources which has helped SKIDZ become a well established and respected organisation. Each Project has developed links with many partners who have demonstrated their support in a variety of ways.

 Porsche

In 2005 a consultation paper was undertaken to start the process of forming a motor project in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Following the publication of the study a steering group was formed. This group worked for the following three years to raise funds, secure premises and form partnerships to enable the motor project to become a reality. During this time relationships with SKIDZ – The Wycombe Motor Project were maintained with several of the partners working together on separate projects.

 When SKIDZ Wycombe was approached by Porsche UK Ltd with an offer to channel substantial funding and support for a London based motor project through SKIDZ, Hillingdon was the natural choice.

 Peter Sale, Director of Hillingdon Training Ltd, said “This generous donation from Porsche along with funding and support from Hillingdon Community Trust, Hillingdon Council, Hillingdon Youth and Connexions Service, Skillnet and the partner organisations will mean the project will be able to deliver courses in motor vehicle maintenance to young people across the Borough”.

 David Lister, Chair of Trustees at SKIDZ Wycombe said “The financial support from Porsche has enabled all the other parts of this public, private, charitable partnership to come together allowing the creation of another motor project. This new project will benefit the young people in the Borough of Hillingdon.  As pure academic education does not suit everyone, the motor projects are one way of allowing young persons to excel at something that interests them and captures their imagination. This is a powerful tool for changing lives”.

 MercedesGP PETRONAS

Ross Brawn, Team Principal of the MercedesGP PETRONAS Formula One Team, is delighted to become a Patron of SKIDZ and a passionate supporter of providing opportunities for young people to learn practical motor mechanic skills having begun his Formula One career as a machinist in 1976. Ross agreed to become Patron of the Wycombe Building Appeal in June 2009 when he attended the Project Launch. Trustees and staff are working with Ross to develop contacts and fundraising opportunities for SKIDZ; some of these will be evident from January 2010. http://www.mercedes-gp.com/partners.asp#charities

 Paddy Hopkirk

Ross was joined on this occasion by Paddy Hopkirk former Rally Driver and long standing supporter of SKIDZ. Alongside Henry Liddon Paddy won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Mini Cooper S car number 37, license plate/registration tag 33 EJB. They remain the only all British crew to have won the event. He was elected as a life member of the British Racing Drivers’ Club in 1967, and is also president of the Historic Rally Car Register, and a patron of disability charity WheelPower. The story of Paddy’s first car can be found in our News section. 

 CLARENCO

Mike Clare founder of ‘Dreams’ is also keen to support this entrepreneurial charity and joined Ross and Paddy as Patrons of the Appeal Fund. Mike has always been entrepreneurial in style, right from an early age at school through to the phenomenal growth of Dreams. Entrepreneurship and helping people with their businesses is a passion of Mike’s and he is often heard as a keynote speaker at business conferences encouraging young budding entrepreneurs.

 Dreams was founded by Mike in 1987, with one small bed shop in Hillingdon. Dreams plc now has over 200 Superstores Nationwide, its own bed factory in the Midlands, a strong contracts division, and has grown to become Britain’s largest/favourite Bed Retailer. Dreams have won numerous awards and are recognised as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies. Although Mike has recently stepped down as Chairman/CEO he is still a significant shareholder and is now President (non-exec) of the business he founded over 20 years ago.

 TEMPLE ISLAND

SKIDZ is indebted to Justin and his staff at Temple Island for generously giving of their time and skills to construct our exciting new website, which is much appreciated by us all.

 Temple Island is a small company based in the Chiltern Hills; their design studio is equipped with the latest in colour graphic computer technology and their design team have years of experience designing print for our wide range of products.

OUR SUPPORTERS

We have split these into three categories:-

Public                                       Private                           Charitable Organisations

   Please accept our apologies for any omissions on this page which may be due to an oversight given the many supporters over such  a long period of time.