MacKenzie King Easter Egg Appeal 2024

Our Easter Egg Appeal returned for 2024!

Each spring we ask our clients, and local businesses, to donate Easter Eggs that we then deliver to local charities. The kindly donated eggs are then shared between local charities, including; Suffolk Mind, St Elizabeth Hospice, The Mix, Autism Anglia, Bury Drop In and Survivors in Transition.

This year, with Easter landing earlier, on March 31st, our planning was brought forward earlier, than previous years. We reached out to local charities in January to understand their needs and ideal delivery dates, ensuring our contributions would make the biggest impact possible!

The MacKenzie King team then sprang into action, connecting with our valued clients and local partners to rally support for our Easter Egg Appeal. We were overwhelmed by the generosity, with countless companies eager to donate eggs and share in the joy of giving back!

Once the numbers were confirmed, the logistics of egg collection became our focus. Ted, Ben and Stephanie, three of our of Consultants at MacKenzie King, embarked on egg-collection missions early on in February, returning to the office with their cars brimming with donations!

The donations were so generous, the board room had to make a sacrifice, temporarily doubling as our storage space resulting in the heating having to remain off, to ensure the eggs we stored in there wouldn’t melt!

When all the eggs were collected we worked together, compiling the eggs ready to be donated to our charities.

We were deeply grateful for the unwavering support received for our appeal and we wanted to provide a glimpse into the remarkable work of the charities we were privileged to support:

Suffolk Mind is an independent charity whose mission is to make Suffolk the best place in the world to talk about and take care of mental health.

Their support includes a wide range of courses, training and therapeutic services which can enable you to better understand mental wellbeing and how you can help improve or maintain your own.

To find more about Suffolk Mind and the incredible support they provide, please click the link below.

Autism Anglia is an independent charity that provides care and support to autistic children, adults and their families in East Anglia. They offer personalised approaches, tailored to each individual with the necessary skills and strategies to enable them to realise their own strengths and abilities.

Autism Anglia strives to raise awareness of autism and increase greater understanding of the condition through events, works hard to create autism-friendly environments by providing training to local businesses and venues and ensures that the voices of autistic people are heard.

To find out more about Autism Anglia and the incredible support they provide, please click the link below.

Bury Drop In is a registered charity supporting people who are homeless and vulnerably housed in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. They provide support to guests including the street homeless, rough sleepers, sofa-surfers, those in temporary accommodation and people who were homeless but need support to avoid falling back into homelessness.

They hold drop-in sessions where they offer a nutritious hot meal, friendship and support. Tents, sleeping bags, toiletries and emergency food vouchers also included within the support they provide to those who are homeliness and vulnerable housed.

To find out more about Bury Drop In and the incredible support they provide, please click the link below.

St Elizabeth Hospice provide support to people living with progressive and life-limiting illness. They offer expert care and support to help them, and their families, maximise the potential from the time they have left. They provide specialist support wherever it is needed, in your home, in the community or at the hospice.

Within their services in East Suffolk, they have 18 inpatient beds, a community nursing team, a therapy team, emotional support and day services. Their services are centred around the individuals needs providing dedicated palliative care, wherever it is required.

To find out more about St Elizabeth Hospice and the incredible support they provide, please click the link below. 

Survivors in Transition are located in Ipswich Town Centre and support anyone over the age of 18, who has experienced sexual abuse in childhood, through a range of trauma informed, psycho-educational activities including one to one and group therapy, counselling, advocacy, research and training to become empowered, improve their self-esteem and resilience and make sense of their world.

To find out more about Survivors in Transition and the incredible support they provide, please click the link below.

The Mix are a youth charity based in Stowmarket, who work with young people from across Mid Suffolk and beyond. They are committed to effective partnerships with agencies, charities and businesses to ensure young people can co-create and access the best youth work support available.

They run a multipurpose facility, a wide range of provisions for young people and have a trading arm that employs young people and invests its profits into the charity to enable them to continue to grow their impact.

To find out more about The Mix and the incredible support they provide, please click the link below.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the local companies whose generosity made this year's Easter Egg Appeal possible. Your contributions undoubtedly brought countless smiles and moments of joy this Easter season and we couldn’t have done it without you.

A total of 1,089 eggs were donated for the appeal and there were a lot of big smiles this Easter!

And thank you to our family & friends who have also generously donated eggs for the appeal!