Delving into the World of Jewellery with the Michael Jones Jeweller Blog — Charity

We are delighted to be involved in the 2024 Rokart Competition again.  Rotary Nene Valley has organised the RoKart competition for the past 8 years and has raised tens of thousands of pounds for local charities. It is a fun and friendly competition for local groups and businesses that raises a huge amount of money for charity. Following a few practice sessions...

We are updating this blog to announce that the race was a huge success! The event finished just as it started raining. The timing could not be more perfect! There were 80 runners and everyone has said they had a great time. Keep in touch with the charity for the dates for the 2023 event!    The Lewis Foundation sources, packages and hand...

A brand-new retail space has opened at Workbridge, Northampton supporting service users to develop their skills and work experience in a retail environment. Anne Jones joined our Directors Tuesday 29th June 2021 to open the new retail space officially and celebrate the Workbridge legacy, it may have rained but it was a lovely day for sharing stories and welcoming opportunities...

Community and Charity Work Planned for this Year: Rokart 2020 This year we are proud sponsors of the annual 2020 Rokart go-karting event. This event is organised by the Nene Valley Rotary Club and Teamworks Karting. It is an indoor go-karting event that is all in aid of charity. It involves many local companies from Northamptonshire competing in 10 “heats”....

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Amber Rawlins who graduated this week from her fashion textiles course from the University of Northampton. Amber was one of the first recipients of our scholarship to help young undergraduates in their studies. Our scholarship provides two local students with £9000 funding over the three years of their course to give them a helpful start in their...

For more than 40 years, the Rolex Awards have supported individuals with projects that advance human knowledge, protect cultural heritage or help preserve natural habitats and species. Join a Jury of experts to help select the five 2019 Laureates who will be supported by Rolex. Discover the finalists and vote: Miranda Wang Recycling unrecyclable plastic waste If 25 year-old Canadian...

Friends of Northampton General Hospital held a Christmas Raffle in aid of Northampton General Hospital. They said “I would like to thank you for your generous donation for our Christmas Raffle with was drawn yesterday. We are delighted with the results of this year’s raffle as we raised £1769.50. this will be used for buying urgently needed equipment for the...

We had an exciting Monday morning with a visit from Christian Day and Juan Pablo Estelle for a photo shoot in our watch gallery for Christian Day' Testimonial Calendar 2018. You will have to buy the calendar to see the official photo but here is a sneak peek. Buy the calendar here.

The Autumn Working Weekend 2017 was organised in aid of the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. They said “Thank you for your kindness in donating the silver bracelet as a prize for the raffle this year… the promotors and organisers of the Annual Autumn Working Weekend 2017 have great pleasure in thanking you wholeheartedly for your help and support over...

Northampton Deaf Coffee held a charity comedy night in aid of Deaf Connect and the Deaf Hub on 1st April 2017. They said “I want to thank you for all your support, without which the event would not have been as successful as it was. I have got a lot of positive feedback from the deaf community and we managed...

The Rotary Club held their annual Rotary Charity Dinner in aid of PROSTaid. They said “Thank you for the diamond pendant donated by Michael Jones Jeweller for our raffle. I am writing to advise you that the dinner was a great success and we raised £1500 on the night, this included the £705 that the raffle raised. Thank you once...

Cleenol held a Christmas raffle in aid of Katherine House Hospice. They said “I would like to say a huge thank you for the raffle prize that you donated to our Christmas raffle in aid of our chosen charity. Katherine House Hospice has to raise over £3m each year to keep going and only gets 1 third of this from...