The Easter Egg Appeal 2025!

Each spring we ask our clients, and local businesses, to donate Easter Eggs that we then deliver to local charities. These thoughtfully donated eggs are distributed among the charities we support, bringing joy over Easter. This year, we were proud to support the following charities:

This year, despite Easter falling later than usual, the school holidays landed earlier, starting the second week in April. With this in mind, we reached out to local charities in early February, to better understand their needs and preferred delivery dates, ensuring our contributions would have the greatest impact.

The MacKenzie King team then sprang into action, connecting with our valued clients and local partners to gather support for our Easter Egg Appeal. The generosity we received was overwhelming, with countless companies eager to donate eggs and join us in spreading the joy of giving back.

Once the donations were confirmed, we shifted our focus to organising the collection process. Ted, Ben, and Stephanie—three of our Consultants—set out on egg-collection missions throughout March and early April. Each time they returned to the office, their cars were packed with donations!

The response was so generous that the boardroom had to temporarily double as storage space, with the heating turned off to ensure the eggs wouldn’t melt.

With all the eggs collected, Bethany then went through and sorted and prepared the eggs ready to be delivered!

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:

Genesis Orwell Mencap is a local charity that provides adult learning disability services. From their Genesis centre in Ipswich, they offer day care for adults with special needs, complex disabilities and profound and multiple learning disabilities.

Lighthouse is a Suffolk based charity that supports women, young people and children who are affected by domestic abuse.

They offer refuge for women, young people and children who are fleeing an abusive situation.

Once you are safe, their team will help you rebuild your life. From sorting out your benefits, to arranging school places and assisting with moving on into a new home when ready.

The Mix is the UK’s leading support service for young people, under 25.

They are here to help you take on any challenge you’re facing - from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs. You are able to talk to them via their online community, on social media and through their free, confidential helpline or counselling service.

Ormiston Families make a difference to children and families across the East of England.

In 2023/24, they reached over 5,100 families and welcomed over 66,000 visitors to their prison visit centres. Every one of them has a story to tell.

So far this year, they have supported nearly 3,000 families and supported over 39,000 prison visitors.

St Helena Hospice is a Colchester based charity which provides specialist palliative and end of life care to local people facing incurable illness in north east Essex, supporting them, their families, friends and carers.

They reach out to members of the community, helping them make their own choices and live with dignity. By focusing on their physical, emotional and spiritual needs, they aim to bring comfort and relief to all those who need it, offering the people of north east Essex individual care and total support, regardless of their diagnosis or personal circumstances.

Survivors In Transition supports all survivors of all ages, of all genders who have experienced any form of sexual violence or sexual abuse regardless of when this happened or whether it has been reported or not. They do this through a range of trauma informed, psycho-educational activities including one to one and group therapy, counselling, advocacy, research and training to become empowered and improve self esteem and resilience.

St Elizabeth Hospice is here for 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.

Their work is centred around an individual's needs. They provide specialist support wherever it is needed, in your home, in the community or at our hospice

Bury Drop In is a registered charity supporting people who are homeliness and vulnerably house in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Bury Drop In provides support to guests including rough sleepers, sofa-surfers, those in temporary accommodation and people who were homeless but need support to avoid falling back into homelessness.

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 1,655 eggs were donated for the appeal and there were a lot of big smiles this Easter!