On Sunday 19th May four teams from across the Group (plus friends and family of the Group) took part in the annual Rushden Chichele Funfest It’s A Knock-Out competition.

This is the fifth year in a row the Group has entered a team in this event and our largest turnout to date with support from adi Mechanical, adi Electrical, adi Healy Compressor Services, adi Environmental, adi Projects, adi TEGG Service and adi Digital.

Apart from providing a great day out for the whole community, the primary purpose of Funfest is to raise funds for local charities. It is jointly organised by three local groups – The Rotary Club of Rushden Chichele, Rushden Round Table, and Cynthia Spencer Hospice – and all proceeds are divided equally between these three groups. This year the event raised over £7,800 – the largest total it has raised to date.

Stephen Forrester, Managing Director at adi Mechanical said of the event, “We were pleased to once again be able to support this annual event with our largest adi Group contingent to date. All teams from the Group put on a stellar show negotiating all kinds of fun challenges and inflatable obstacles with adi Electrical emerging victorious out of the adi companies and narrowly missing out on the Top three teams.”

“It’s fantastic to have been able to contribute to the largest fundraising total the event has raised to date for the Northamptonshire Association for the Blind,  Northampton Domestic Abuse Service National Children’s Tumour Leukaemia Cancer Trust (NCTLC Ltd) based in Earls Barton.”

“We look forward to taking part again next year.”

The Chair of the local Rotary committee sent in a personal note thanking adi Group for their support saying, “A fantastic effort from all at adi and obviously very much appreciated. The support of adi on this years event has really made sure that we have achieved an astonishing success with record profits coming back into the community. Once again thank you so much for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you all again next year.”

We’d like to say a huge thanks and well done to all of the below participants for the Group teams who contributed over £3,000 in fundraising donations to the various charities that this event supports:

Mech’ll Fix It
Charles Baker, Sam Scott, Kyle Sterry, Jordan Bell, Steve Emery, Lee Gotch, Steve Forrester, Josh Jeffries, Matt Ellson, Daryl Attwell, Grant West, Daniel McMillan, Andy Bryant and Daniel Gibson

Ramin’s Bright Sparks
Ramin Esfandiarinia, Stuart McMillan, Josh Page, Nyron Howell, Chris Murphy (and son!), Melissa Britchford, Greg Noake.

The Good, The Bad and The Bulldozer
James Sopwith, Martin Smith, Richard Merritt, Luke Dawson, Ian Cartwright, Murray Evans, Damon Bhakta, Brian Imrie and Stewart Darby

Lusty’s Ladies
Debbie Gibson, Heidi Granfield, Leah Talbot, Shannon Sterry, Stacey Emery, Hayley Gotch, Aryden Granfield, Page Granfield, Eden Granfield, Lydia Baker, Katherine Scott, Faye Simms and Donna Bryant.