charity work

We are proud to support many charities

Wirebox are proud of the work we do and we are proud to support many charities and help them from building websites and applications to helping raise money.

Here is some of the work we have been involved with.

Skydive for KidneyCare

After onboarding KidneyCare as a client in June 2019, I got to know the charity better as their main account manager and decided to support their cause. I could see that their teams were devoted to helping kidney patients and supporting them throughout their journeys which really resonated with me.

I’m not much of a runner, so the 5k runs didn’t really appeal to me. However, I am quite an adrenaline junky, so when I saw that KidneyCare were doing a sponsored SkyDive, I jumped

at the chance (no pun intended). I spoke to the Wirebox management team about the idea and from the start they were behind me.

I remember the day so clearly, it was quite cloudy and overcast. It was also my Mother in Law’s birthday (sorry Mum!). We arrived at the Brackley dropzone about an hour and half before I had to be registered, weighed and ready for my SkyDive, I was also joined by John & Eddie who decided to come and watch.

We went through the briefing, the do’s and the don’ts and I started to get a little nervous, watching others coming down and landing after their parachute session. Then my name was called and I was asked to get on the plane. No turning back now. On the way up, talking to others who were jumping, it was a lady’s 90th birthday and she had always wanted to jump out of a plane, so we all sang happy birthday!

We finally got to 10,000 ft and the door was opened. A few seconds later, the light went green and people began their jumps. I remember sitting at the door, with my legs hanging out, my skydive instructor counting down and we were gone. Free falling towards a layer of cloud, the wind rushing by as we get closer and closer to the clouds. After about 15 seconds the instructor pulled the parachute and it felt like we were suspended in the air, slowly drifting towards the ground with spectacular views! If you haven’t done it before, I would highly recommend it!

I managed to raise £350 for KidneyCareUK which I am really proud of as it is the most I’ve ever raised for charity! Thank you everyone for your donations!

Hope for Depression run Race of Hope — Virtual 2021 Summer

Hope for Depression Research Foundation was founded by NYC philanthropist Audrey Gruss in 2006 to spur cutting-edge neuroscience research into the origins, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of depression, a national public health crisis in the United States and the world’s number one cause of disability.

Wirebox has been supporting the Hope for Depression Research for over 5 years and during that time they have had many fundraising events.

In August 2021, team members from Wirebox did a 5k fun run in Cassiobury Park at the same time as the Race of Hope run in New York.

It was a fun day and the whole event helped raise money for the charity.

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Pennies

Wirebox started working with Pennies in 2013. They were a small charity but had the API which retailers used to donate pennies to designated charities.

The API was developed in Python by another company but needed another company to support them.

We volunteered our services and supported them for 2 years. After this period the API and charity got much bigger and Pennies became a client of ours.

We are still proud of the work they do and how we supported them during the early days.

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Signpost Counselling

Local to Wirebox, with offices in both Watford and Hemel Hempstead, Signpost is a charity focussed on supporting children and young adults to overcome problems in their lives.

The main service offered by Signpost is one to one counselling, the charity also provides group counselling which with the pandemic became challenging and the way they worked had to change.

With the pandemic bringing its own issues and lockdown increasing isolation, remote counselling became a more common practice.

The charity required a presence online to be able to promote their services, to become more well known in the Community and to continue to assist young adults in their lives.

Wirebox developed a website using WordPress, a well known content management system which allowed the charity to manage their online presence internally. With the number of applicants increasing, the website also acted as a portal with an online form designed to make it easy for users to provide the necessary information to register with the charity.

A key element of the website was to assist the charity with reducing workloads in a time where their assistance and expertise was required increasingly more often. To achieve this, all registrants through the website are automatically fed into the Charities ERP system, In-form. This removes the need for administration and duplication of data entry.

In-form is a unique system built for charities such as Signpost which allows case management tools to ensure process efficiency and a higher service to those that require the service. It is built on the Salesforce platform, which comes with all of the developer tools and API’s for seamless integration into In-form.

Wirebox continues to support and assist Signpost with their online presence and data management.

Walk All Over Cancer

Nabin as a 2021 apprentice at Wirebox wanted to improve his mentality and decided to go for short walks every day. He had been getting up to about 5000 steps a day and decided he would do something for charity and went for the 10,000 steps goal challenge!

In March 2021 Nabin helped raise over £200 for Cancer Research UK’s fundraiser to Walk All Over Cancer.

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PAPYRUS Charity Walk

On Tuesday 19th October 2021 Adam Hayward our Social Media Executive took part in a charity walk around the local area to raise money for PAPYRUS.

PAPYRUS work closely with the young people, in the prevention of suicide. They have an anonymous chat line that can offer support around the clock, 365 days a year.

A huge thank you to iSales for hosting this walk. We as a team managed to raise nearly £1,000.