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Howden
Howden has moved in and become our brand-new neighbours here in the Foundry, officially launching their North Wales commercial presence in Wrexham, marking a significant expansion of its Welsh footprint.
Celebrating their Welcome to Wrexham in style
Charity Auction and Networking Event
With 90 attendees, Howden opened it's brand new Wrexham offices on 17th September with a charity fundraising auction and raffle for Nightingale House Hospice, and invited a special guest speaker, Mickey Thomas, former Wrexham AFC Legend.
Hosted at
The Fat Boar
Ideally located next door to the Howden Wrexham offices, The Fat Boar has a great covered entertainment and networking space. They provided ample ice cold Wrexham Lagers and delicious platters of their famous in-house prepared dishes to keep everyone fed and watered well into the evening.
A Great
Cause
The key benefit for the event was raising valuable funds for one of our most popular local charities, Nightingale House Hospice. With auctions and raffles on the night, the event was made extra special with various tales of Wrexham AFC's historical moments provided from our very own Mickey Thomas.
Local
Business
Howden brought staff, customers and business partners, and invited many of the professional circles of Wrexham all under one roof for the evening. Officially marking the launch of their new offices next door to the Fat Boar, everyone celebrated the team coming to Wrexham and raised thousands in funds across the evening for a great local cause.
We met Nathan Brookfield, to find out a little about their plans to help and support businesses here in Wrexham.
Nathan is Howden's local account executive and part of a tight knit team based here in the Foundry, located in the same building as Visit Wrexham.
Community
Focused.
Nathan is from Wrexham originally, and after an extensive career has now returned home to settle with his young family in nearby Johnstown. Nathan has always been a big fan of Wrexham, and passionately believes in supporting our local community and partners such as Nightingale House Hospice. Outside of work, he is currently studying for a master’s in counselling and volunteers with students at the local college when time allows.
Wrexham
Legends.
Very casually, over a coffee he let us know he is playing in the Nightingale Hospice FC team this September against Wrexham Legends. Playing alongside other talented players, including players drawn from major local businesses such as JCB, Ivor Williams and The Uncommon Accountants, the team will have their work cut out when they play their inaugural charity match against some of Wrexham’s finest former players – albeit with them somewhat a little more experienced and seasoned.
Fundraising
For A Great
Local Cause.
The match was hosted on Friday 4th September with friends, families and colleagues attending to cheer on the team. And whilst not at The Racecourse itself, it was only a stone’s throw away at the nearby Lex Stansty Park ground, located around half a mile north.
Aiming to raise £500 personally for the event, matched by Howden, Nathan and the rest of the team are raising awareness and valuable funds for one of Wrexham’s most beloved and respected local charities, Nightingale House Hospice.
Nightingale FC vs.
Wrexham
Legends
The players drawn for this match were kept a closely guarded secret, but we do know that Stephen Watkin played, a former striker for both Wrexham AFC and his international career with Wales. He is most famous for scoring the winning goal in Wrexham's historic 2–1 FA Cup victory over reigning champions Arsenal in 1992.
Afterwards Neil ‘Robbo’ Roberts, also formerly of Wrexham AFC, helped refresh both the teams over at Vault 33, around the corner from us. They obviously thought it was in the bag!
We’d like to welcome Nathan and the Howden team to Visit Wrexham and congratulate them on their performance against the mighty Wrexham Legends!
The Wrexham Legends proved a formidable force against the Nightingales. The crowd were treated to goals galore though with the final score being 7:4 to the Wrexham Legends.
Nathan told us he was proud of the team's performance up against some of the best former Wrexham AFC players and to score 4 times against them shows there's more to come from this up and coming new team. Nathan also hit his personal fundraising target - well done again to all of the Nightingale FC team!
