EIC smashes £120,000 anniversary target

In 2025, the Electrical Industries Charity celebrated 120 years of supporting our industry. To commemorate this incredible milestone, we set ourselves a bold challenge: to raise an additional £120,000. We’re thrilled to announce that, in early November, we smashed our target, reaching an impressive £130,000 all thanks to our amazing community!

To mark 120 years, we launched our 120 Challenge Calendar, inviting our community to take part from home and show their support in creative ways. The very first challenge was to ‘bail out’ our trustees and the EIC management team, who spent the day locked up in a makeshift jail in the middle of nowhere. And we don’t mean this figuratively – our trustees are still recovering from how cold it was in that cell! Thankfully, our community banded together to bail them out and kick-start our 120th year celebrations with a bang.

Our Managing Director, Jess, led the charge throughout 2025, taking on a series of incredible fundraising challenges. Her mission was to rally 1,000 supporters from across the UK to each raise £120 for the Electrical Industries Charity – all while experiencing new thrills and overcoming personal challenges along the way.

In honour of the four nations we serve, Jess completed one challenge in each country.

• Wales (March): Jess began her journey by ziplining over Penrhyn Quarry. This combined with the efforts of our Jail or Bail challenge raised an impressive £15,000 towards our total.
• Scotland (April): She and a team of supporters took on the Glasgow Kiltwalk, boosting the total to £21,000 in the process.
• England (July): Jess and a growing team of supporters walked over 20 miles in the Thames River Path Challenge, bringing the tally to £50,000.
• Northern Ireland (October): The final challenge saw Jess and her supporters abseil from Belfast’s iconic Europa Hotel. The total was now at £109,000, with just £11,000 left to reach our goal.

Throughout the year, our community truly went above and beyond. Supporters took on bungee jumps, cycled 55 miles, skydived from 14,000ft, completed triathlons, ran marathons, baked cakes, dressed up, and so much more – all in the name of raising vital funds for our charity.

We genuinely couldn’t have achieved (and surpassed) our £120,000 goal without our steadfast, passionate community. Thank you for making our 120th year one to remember!

Reflecting on this massive success, Jess says she was inspired to see the community come together for a good cause:

“It’s been an absolute pleasure completing the #JoinJess challenge this year. Seeing the community rally together with the shared goal of raising vital funds for our charity was truly something special.

“Now that we’ve achieved this milestone, it’s important that we look to the future and keep the momentum going so that the EIC can continue to offer vital support to our community for another 120 years and beyond.”

As we close the chapter on our 120th anniversary celebrations, we’re filled with gratitude and pride for everything our community has achieved together. Your dedication and generosity remind us why the Electrical Industries Charity exists: to support, uplift, and strengthen our industry. Here’s to building on this success and continuing to make a lasting difference, for the next 120 years and beyond.

Thank you to our amazing community!

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