Charity Archives - Latitude Brokers

Teams Ido and Keido complete the Mission to Seafarers 2023 Adventure Race Japan !

We made it! Latitude Brokers teamed up with Taylor Maritime and the Mission to Seafarers in Hong Kong to enter two teams in to the Adventure Race Japan to raise funds for the Mission’s work globally. Team Ido (Japanese for Latitude) was Vanessa Toucas, Janie D’Arch and Catherine Graham; and Team Keido (Longitude) was Andrew Brooker, Kevin Leach-Smith and Rev ...

Another Brick in the (Great) Wall for Latitude Brokers

Following our participation to the Sailors Society Hong Kong Challenge in the past 3 years, hiking across HK, we decided to take the challenge to the next level and join the Sailors Society Great Wall of China Challenge for their 200th anniversary. Two Latitude teams entered the Challenge, one from Hong Kong and one from Singapore, and we all congregated ...

A very successful Festive Shipping Food Drive !

Following the success of our previous collaboration with West of England P&I Club to raise funds for Feeding Hong Kong over Christmas drinks, we have decided this year to take it up a notch and to coordinate our Second Shipping Food Drive at the same time. It was all made easy and even more beneficial to FHK thanks to the online ...

Latitude coordinates the First Shipping Food Drive for Feeding Hong Kong

In June, Latitude Brokers coordinated the First Shipping Food Drive for Feeding Hong Kong. Feeding Hong Kong work with food retailers, distributors and manufacturers to rescue surplus that would otherwise be discarded and re-distribute it to the people in need. But from week to week, the volumes of food donated to Feeding Hong Kong go up and down and the ...

Latitude completes Sailors’ Society 32 kms trek in gruesome weather conditions

Saturday 5th December: It was a blustery day when the Latitude team assembled at dawn with 34 other teams, for a 32 kms journey along the Hong Kong trail to raise money to support the Sailors’ Society. After 3 months of training in the heat, and under blue skies, the conditions were a shocker ! But Latitude support team had been ...

Latitude goes Jamming with Feeding Hong Kong for Christmas

As part of the festive season, we helped Feeding Hong Kong make 2000 jars of jam to be given out to low-income families in December. The sacks contain a number of homemade items and each jar is personalized by the volunteers! Our own Kay Chan said “I am very glad to be one of the volunteers participating in the jam making session ...

Latitude Brokers in Sailors’ Society epic 35km hike across Hong Kong on 5th December 2015

BIG thanks to all our Corporate Sponsors who are now emblazoned across our shirts!!! Nepa, Waltons & Morse, India International Insurance, Ironshore, Thomas Miller, Skuld, TT Club, Affinity Shipping LLP, UK P&I Club, RPC, SART and Charterers Club…you’ve put us well on our way to our target of HKD125,000 (around GBP10,000)!! All the Founding Partners will be hiking on 5th December, with ...