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A group of friends who completed 2016’s Race The Sun Brecon Beacons challenge, raising over £5,000 for Action Medical Research, announced their return to Lycra and are committing to undertake a mega hat-trick in 2017 by completing a Race The Sun triple challenge.

Cancer Research UK was delighted to be presented with a cheque for £20,223 from Redditch businessman, Dean Attwell, who trekked to the North Pole in April to raise funds for the charity.

Budding horticulturalists at Beoley First School are delighted with their new and much larger greenhouse thanks to local businesses and parents who dug deep for the green fingered project.

Oakland International Finance Director, Jeremy Hoare, has been shortlisted for the Private Company FD of the Year – Smaller and Mid-Sized Business award category of the FDs’ Excellence Awards to be held in London on 17 May 2017.

Multi temperature supply chain specialist Oakland International and UK symbol group operator SPAR UK are confirmed as finalists in The Grocer Gold Awards 2017 to be held at the Guildhall, London on Tuesday 13th June 2017.

Pupils at Ipsley CE RSA Academy in Redditch were treated to a special cookery and crafting session led by local children’s charity the Oakland Foundation.

Finally reaching the North Pole as news broke of a Queen’s Award double honour, CEO and Co-Founder of Oakland International, Dean Attwell, said he was exhausted but elated, thanking everyone for their support, good wishes and generous donations during his North Pole trek in aid of Cancer Research UK.

Confirmed as a ‘double’ award winner, Oakland International has won two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, for International Trade and Sustainable Development 2017.

As the last few days and hours tick by for businessman Dean Attwell preparing to undertake the coldest endurance challenge of his life, colleagues, friends and family members joined together for a fundraising lunch to support and wish him well in his endeavour.