A Night of Giving Back: Join Us at the Home-Start in Suffolk Charity Moonlight Ball

Jane on April 12, 2024

Welcoming You to the Home-Start in Suffolk Charity Ball

Home-Start in Suffolk are holding their 7th Moonlight Ball, to be held at Kesgrave Hall on Friday, 17th May 2024. The tickets are £85 each and this includes a 3-course dinner, a welcome drink, dancing and entertainment.

This event is the biggest event of the year for Home-Start in Suffolk. They are aiming to beat last year’s total of £28k to help families in Suffolk.

Billie Box is proud to sponsor this great event.

Empowering Families in Suffolk: The Mission of Home-Start

The charity volunteers visit families in Suffolk to assist with many day-to-day problems including mental health, parenting and financial issues. The volunteers offer emotional, practical and friendly support to those in need in the Suffolk area.

Home-Start in Suffolk are helping in the region of 2000 families in the Suffolk area, but sadly, due to many external forces, this number is rising.

The impact on these families is huge and this service to the local community is much needed.

An Evening of Giving: Details of the Charity Ball

The Moonlight Ball is on Friday, 17th May 2024 and the ticket price is £85 per person, which includes a 3-course dinner and a welcome drink.

There will be dancing, entertainment, a ‘Heads or Tails’, grand draw, auction and many more prizes to win.

The target to beat is last year’s fundraising total of £28k. Let’s hope we can do this.

Heartfelt Thanks: Recognising Our Supporters

We have many supporters that we would like to thank:

👉 Cherry Beesley • Simply C Photography
👉 MCP plc
👉 Yeseo
👉 Ruth Leigh author
👉 Polyspiral Website design, hosting and SEO
👉 Natasha is Wide Eyed
👉 Woodbridge Books
👉 Chaffinch, Woodbridge
👉 The Burgess Group
👉 Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club
👉 1975 Winebar, Woodbridge
👉 Gotelee Solicitors LLP
👉 Christopher Montrose Coffee
👉 Busy Bees Cosmetics
👉 Billie Box Ltd. shipping containers for sale or rent in UK
👉 Yoga with Manon
👉 Tracy Barritt-Brown – Willow Artist
👉The Happiness Club
👉Humber Doucy Brewing Co.

Joining Hands for a Cause: Ways to Support Home-Start in Suffolk

We appreciate all the support given to this great event. If you can’t attend then donations to the charity are always welcome. Please click here to make a donation.

Billie Box builds trust by giving back to the community. Click here for more of what Billie Box is supporting.

Jail & Bail 2024

Jane on February 8, 2024

Jane is going to be locked up in Woodbridge on 8th March 2024 in aid of Home-Start Suffolk

Jane Billing of Billie Box alias the ‘Container Queen‘ is going to be locked up because she is being too ‘Box-Tastic’ .

Update 18-Mar-24: Many thanks for your kind support, I raised over £1.5K and as a group we raised over £12k

Please can you bail Jane out by donating to her Justgiving page here ?

All the funds go to Home-Start Suffolk to help those families that really are struggling with many life issues, that many of us don’t experience.

Billie Box have been supporting Home-Start Suffolk for over 5 years now. Billie Box have food shopped for these families, donated food vouchers and supported various fundraising events. Billie Box wants to support local charities, because Suffolk is close to her heart.

View this video to see who else is being locked up….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2R5LQtuNhw

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Moonlight Ball 2023 for Home-Start Suffolk

Jane on February 23, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Billie Box will be part of the Gold Sponsorship program for the Moonlight Ball 2023 in aid of Home-Start Suffolk.

Home-Start in Suffolk are hosting their sixth fundraising Ball on Friday 19th May 23 at The Hangar, Milsoms Kesgrave Hall near Ipswich (Buy your tickets here). The Moonlight Ball is their charity’s biggest annual fundraising event, with all money raised going directly back into providing support for Suffolk families.

Home-Start in Suffolk is the county’s largest family support charity. Our vision is that every child in Suffolk is given the best possible start in life because of the love, support and guidance they receive from their parents, guardians or the people performing the role of their parents. Home-Start in Suffolk supported more than 1,500 local families in 2022 thanks to a network of fully trained award-winning volunteers who help families with children up to the age of 12 overcome a range of challenging issues including loneliness, isolation, mental health, domestic abuse, bereavement, health struggles, disabilities, poverty and much more.

In the last year, Home-Start have experienced an exponential increase in the number of families needing to access the charity’s support services, making fundraising events such as this more important than ever. This year’s Moonlight Ball organisers are therefore looking for local businesses and organisations to help support their event. There are a range of sponsorship opportunities available starting from just £200 for a table sponsorship package up to £2,000 for Gold sponsorship. Bespoke sponsorship can also be arranged. 

The format of the evening includes a 3-course meal, a raffle for each table (each prize is worth approximately £150), an auction of 6-8 major prizes, and great live entertainment until midnight!  Any support in identifying or serving as a sponsor, supplying raffle prizes, or donating major prizes would be gratefully received.

Your funds will be put to very good use. Independent evaluations have shown that for every £1 spent on supporting families, Home-Start return £6 in savings – an unprecedented value for your investment.

How will your donation help?
£10 will support a family with telephone or video calls for one week.
£15 will support a family with home-visiting for one week.
£25 will support a family attending a family group for a month.
£50 will support a family with home-visiting for one month.
£100 will train a new volunteer to support a struggling family.

Jane Billing has agreed to act as volunteer fundraiser for this event. With all her contacts in the local business community, she is confident that there will be many supporters of this great charity. If you feel you would be in a position to help support this very worthwhile cause, then please do let Jane Billing know.

Billie Box have been supporting this charity for the last 3 years and are really keen to continue helping wherever possible. Please help if you can.

We would also like to thank the following for their generous support:

Woodbridge Books

Yoga with Manon

Andrew Laws from Yeseo

MCP Plc

Tony Southgate of Ginger Pickle

Emmas Florist

Tilley & Grace

Archway Carpets

Ruth Leigh author

1975 Winebar Woodbridge

Felixstowe Rowing Club

Polyspiral web design

Chaffinch, Woodbridge

IMS Wealth Management

Hudson Group

Select office furniture

Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club

Maid 2 Clean

Tyson Cooper

Natasha is Wide Eyed

Busy Bees Cosmetics

Christopher Montrose Coffee

The Burgess Group

Bodylines Beauty Salon

Charity 2020/21/22

Jane on February 23, 2021

Jane, Matt & Clare have been really busy over the last 10 years and as part of Billie Box’s business policy they have been supporting various charities in the local area and further afield.

2020-22 has seen a huge number of Covid cases, which has been a worrying time for many Worldwide households.

2022 Russia went to war with Ukraine. Oh my goodness what an awful time for the Ukrainian people. So with this thought Jane, Matt and Clare decided to donate to the Disasters Emergency Committee. Let’s hope that this donation goes a little to helping.

2022 Billie Box continues to support Youth Sailing at Felixstowe Ferry. Let’s hope the youngsters can get out and enjoy all the River Deben and the sea nearby.

2021 Matt decided to cycle from Lands End to John O’Groats in aid of the St. Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich. Billie Box sponsored him. Such a great challenge, well done Matt for doing it. We know it was a tough one!

With Covid-19 causing such mayhem, Jane, Matt & Clare realised that many people have been struggling as well as the Charities.

So at the start of the Pandemic, Jane was writing postcards of encouragement to the elderly on a weekly basis via Age UK Suffolk. Sadly, Age UK suffolk shut their doors in 2020, which meant the postcards would not be forwarded to the people that needed them. Jane then decided to support a Care home in Felixstowe by writing to their residents, giving them, hopefully, a little smile on a monthly basis.  This month Jane and Matt thought that a gift of a colouring book and pencils might be fun, so with the help of Woodbridge Emporium, Jane delivered them.

In 2020 Jane and Matt had seen that many low income families were really struggling to make ends meet. Billie Box’s friend Darrell Smith of Archway Carpets is an ambassador for Home Start Suffolk. A charity that supports local families with food deliveries, mental health and general support. So throughout 2020 Jane was shopping for food and delivering to Darrell for distribution.

Jo Revitt of Papworth Trust is another friend of Billie Box’s. Papworth Trust help and support their disabled clients with a range of high quality services such as housing, workshops and getting jobs. Jane and Matt have supported this charity on and off throughout the years. This particular support is to raise funds for a garden studio to be used as part of the Day centre.

Jane and Matt realised that 2021 was going to be an even more difficult time for those that are waiting for operations and treatment for illnesses that are not Covid-19. So this month Billie Box donated to the Blossom Appeal (breast cancer) run by the local Colchester & Ipswich Hospital Charity

These charities are just a few, but Billie Box has also supported the following:

For as long as Billie Box can, they will support local charity.

Charity 2020

Jane on April 27, 2020

Charity Support for 2020

Over the last 8 years, Billie Box has held 2 Billie Box Balls, 1 Midsummer party, 1 Afternoon tea, got locked up in a bank, cycled from London to Paris and made many donations to a fair number of charities. These charities include, St. Elizabeth Hospice, Age UK, Papworth Trust, Myeloma UK,  Centrepoint, Families in Need, Cancer Campaign in Suffolk, Clic Sargent, Lighthouse and many more.

During this really difficult time, Billie Box has realised that many charities are suffering and the people that benefit from each charity by the very nature will also suffer.

In order to help, Billie Box has made a small donation to the following charities:

Age UK Suffolk – towards the”Good Day Call”

Papworth Trust – towards the “Virtual Fundraising Challenge”

Colchester & Ipswich Hospital Trust – Support for the NHS staff Covid-19

Home-Start Suffolk – for their support to the local families in need.

If you can donate to these charities I am sure they will appreciate it.

Please do stay safe and well.

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