Why are some people doing so badly and we're doing so well? We don't know either. But we do know that others have to struggle with hunger, homelessness or flood disasters, while we lack for nothing. We at SIP Scootershop have a job that we enjoy. We have enough free time to work on our scooters and always have a few euros left over for a pizza and a beer. The images of the flood disaster in East Germany in 2002 and in Asia in 2005 moved us all deeply, which is why we spontaneously decided to make a donation. And that's when the idea of SIP Aid was born.
What is behind it? We want to donate a portion of our earnings to charitable causes. We regularly donate a considerable amount to SOS Kinderdorf e. V., ARCHE Germany, Humedica and the Red Cross, to name but a few.
SIP AID donations from 2002 to the present day
September 2024
We have been supporting the ARCHE Landsberg residential community for many years. The aim of the ARCHE is to create communities that accommodate people with intellectual disabilities. Non-disabled and mentally disabled people live together in one house and organise their everyday life together. Each member of the house community has their own room. Cooking and eating is done together, and housekeeping is also a joint endeavour. There has been an Arche Haus in Landsberg with 12 residents since 2001. For our Open Day in May, we invited visitors to get a free SIP tattoo, and we donated €200 for each tattoo. There were 12 brave people who were treated by Landsberg tattoo art master Bene Bader - and as promised, we donated the €2,400 to the ARCHE! Thanks to all the brave ones and thanks to Bene Bader and Studio22 SkinArt for the great campaign!
October 2024
This year we are once again taking part in the Advent Calendar organised by the LIONS Club Landsberg: there are prizes worth €28,000 to be won, the calendars are sold for €6 each in Landsberg. We are participating with 4× €50 Gift Certificates for the SIP Scootershop. The Lions Club uses the proceeds from the calendar campaign to finance its wide-ranging charitable work: https://landsberg-am-lech.lions.de/projekte
November 2024
SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to Mary's Meals. With our contribution, the charitable organisation is able to give hope to starving children in the world's poorest countries through food and education, even in difficult times. Mary's Meals is an international organisation that gives starving children access to education through school meals. The daily school meal is a strong incentive for children to attend school. This provides them with a basic education, giving them the chance to escape poverty. More about Mary's Meals: https://www.marysmeals.de
January 2023: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to Humanitäre Hilfe e.V.
We have been supporting the association Humanitäre Hilfe e.V., run by Landsberg cardiologist Dr Soeren Gatz, for many years. A whole series of retired doctors are not improving their handicap on the golf course, but rather the healthcare system in Cameroon and Tanzania. Without any organisational overhead, but with a great deal of passion and commitment, the aid reaches the places where it is most urgently needed. Our donation will be used to purchase a transoesophageal ultrasound probe, which will benefit the St Benedict Monastery Hospital in Ndanda, southern Tanzania. Doctors use this method to examine the various heart chambers, vessels and heart valves from the oesophagus: There are only a few millimetres between the oesophagus and the heart, so razor-sharp images of the moving heart and its structures are produced, which significantly improves diagnostics. Dr Gatz will personally hand over the device on 14 February 2023 and offer a special transoesophageal echocardiography course for local doctors so that this modern and now indispensable technology is also available in southern Tanzania.
April 2023: SIP Scootershop donates 500 € to the Ruethenfestverein e.V.
Every 4 years, a wonderful medieval children's festival called Ruethenfest takes place in Landsberg. More than 1000 children take part and many adults work on a voluntary basis. We support the Ruethenfestverein with a donation of €500. https://www.ruethenfest.de
August 2023: SIP Scootershop donates €5,000 to Humanitäre Hilfe e.V.
We receive a message from Dr Soeren Gatz from the association Humanitäre Hilfe e.V.: "I am fighting for the life of a seven-year-old boy, Alan Christ, with a congenital heart defect (pulmonary stenosis, atrial septal defect) in Foumban/Cameroon and have presented his findings to Prof. Ewert at the German Heart Centre in Munich and have been able to get an early surgery date for him. So far we have only raised €7,000 of the €12,000 needed and the date is getting closer and closer, so I am now asking all my friends and relatives to help us in an emergency. As you know, I have been working in Cameroon for 12 years now and have successfully operated on several children with heart disease at the Cardiac Centre in Shissong, Cameroon. The civil war has destroyed this centre and I now have to bring Alan to Germany so that he does not die like other children before him on the waiting list. Planned procedure at the German Heart Centre Munich: 9.11.2023 Cardiac catheter examination, balloon dilatation of the pulmonary valve, stent implantation, possibly also in the D. Botalli"
We have given Dr Gatz the remaining €5,000 for little Alan's operation and are now keeping our fingers crossed for a successful operation! Update January 2024: The operation was a complete success.
November 2023: SIP Scootershop donates €200 to the Lions Club
As every year, we donate €200 to the Lions Club Landsberg am Lech for the Advent Calendar. For several years now, the Lions Advent Calendar has been an indispensable companion through the pre-Christmas period for many people in the Landsberg district: instead of chocolate, for 6 euros you get 25 chances to win prizes totalling over 28,000 euros. The LIONS Club uses the proceeds from the sale of the calendar to help selected projects: https://landsberg-am-lech.lions.de/
Video trailer for the Ruethenfest 2023
March 2022: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to Doctors Without Borders for aid in Ukraine
On 24 February, the Russian military attacked Ukraine on many fronts. The images and news reaching us from Kiev and other cities are dramatic. We have many customers in the Ukraine and are in constant contact with some members of the Vespa Club Ukraine. From Germany, we can only look on helplessly at the images of this senseless war, but with our donation we are helping the organisation Doctors Without Borders, which is already on the ground, to provide effective aid.
In Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières has supplied material for the treatment of war wounded in Mariupol. Employees have also organised telemedicine training for 30 surgeons from eastern Ukraine in the care of injured people.
MSF emergency aid teams have arrived at the Polish-Ukrainian border. They are currently trying to transport staff and relief supplies to Ukraine and initiate emergency aid measures on both sides of the border. At the border crossings, the teams see people crossing the border on foot, in cars and buses. Some of them are travelling with children and babies, the youngest of whom are less than 25 days old. Many of the refugees are tired and exhausted.
They report that they had to wait in queues at the border for hours in freezing temperatures. Some were dehydrated and others suffered from hypothermia. Médecins Sans Frontières has provided relief supplies for the construction of emergency shelters in a Polish reception centre and is working on expanding its support.
In addition, the teams will carry out a more detailed assessment of the situation along Ukraine's borders with Russia and Belarus.
Given the ongoing fighting, it is difficult to determine the extent of medical needs in Ukraine. MSF is preparing for a range of scenarios to scale up its response.
May 2022: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to ARCHE residential community
SIP Scootershop has been supporting the ARCHE residential community for people with and without intellectual disabilities since 2011. On Open Day on 28 May, we handed over €3,000 to ARCHE Landsberg. ARCHE Landsberg is a community in which people with and without intellectual disabilities live together as equals on a Christian-ecumenical basis. "As we want to enable even more people with and without intellectual disabilities to live together in an inclusive, meaningful way in mutual relationships, we are planning to build a new house in the Staufenstraße development area and take in 10 more residents in addition to our current 10 inpatient and outpatient residents.
August 2022 SIP Scootershop hands over donations to Kiev
Pastor Friedemann, organiser of the Vespa Corso Munich, collected more than €1,900 in donations for Vespa riders in Ukraine in May. Where is the need greatest? We don't know, so we asked in Kiev. "We finally want to do something that makes us happy again, we want to build a Vespa". No sooner said than done, here you can see Sasha from Z-Garage assembling the Engine. Have fun guys! Peace for you soon!
September 2022 scooter ride raises £1,300 in donations for children's cancer charity in the UK
We provided raffle prizes for the scooter ride to raise money for the Lennox Children's Cancer Fund. The raffle ticket sales raised the fantastic sum of £1,300 (approx. €1,490)!
"On behalf of the Lennox Children's Cancer Fund, I would like to thank you for donating the raffle prizes for the scooter ride on 25 September. With your help, the ride raised a fantastic £1,300. Since 1992, Lennox Children's Cancer Fund has been working hard to make a positive difference to the lives of children with cancer and their families. This is done through a number of important projects such as emotional support, carer bursaries and respite holidays. Care grants are awarded to families who are struggling with the financial impact of a child's cancer or leukaemia. The families we support are given a much-needed break from hospitals, doctors and treatments where everyone can sit back, relax and take time to re-build as a family. Thank you again for your support. Yours sincerely, Sara Payne, Community Events Coordinator"
September 2022 SIP Scootershop donates €2,000 to family with boy suffering from leukaemia
Little Max, 5 years old, has leukaemia. The shock diagnosis is compounded by everyday worries: mum can't start her new job because she has to travel to the clinic regularly. There are considerable travel and petrol costs, and the house instalments have to be paid on time. Friends start a fundraising campaign via the platform https://www.gofundme.com/f/qvf25-hilfe-fr-max SIP Scootershop decides to support the family with €2,000 as part of SIP AID, and the Landsberg Lions Club provides active support with the processing. All the best Max!
December 2022 SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 worth of food to Ukraine
We in Germany celebrate Christmas in a peaceful country. Ukraine has been under attack from Russia for more than 300 days. We are moved by the images from the front, but also from the bombed cities. We are happy to be able to make at least a small contribution to humanity and peace with food donations. A team from Landsberg travelled deep into the Ukraine with our Sprinter and handed over food donations, power generators and warming shoe insoles. Here is the detailed report with pictures and a short video: https://sip.shop/ukraine
January 2021: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to HUMEDICA in Sicily
"Jan is an engineer. He comes from Pakistan and had to flee for political reasons. The fact that he is now able to live in Sicily with his wife and three children is largely thanks to the support of local aid organisations. They looked after him from the moment he set foot on Italian soil and stood by him when he lived in a refugee camp for the first few weeks. But they were also there for him afterwards. Without them, for example, he would not have been able to obtain a residence permit that would allow him to work, but also to bring his family to Italy. In return, Jan got involved in refugee aid himself, gave language courses and looked after refugees living on the streets. And he set up his own business to stand on his own two feet. He earned a living for himself and his family by repairing technical equipment - until corona arrived. There are many people like Jan in Sicily. Most of them are not as well off as he is. They are stranded in a country that is not their own, poorly integrated and left alone with their traumatic memories. Anyone living in a refugee camp is looked after, but immigration applications are not being processed due to the coronavirus pandemic. And even outside the camps, everything is at a standstill. Shops, bars and restaurants are closed, and refugees who used to keep their heads above water with temporary jobs are no longer needed. They suddenly find themselves without an income. There is no social safety net, as there is in Germany, and our local partner Missione Tre Onlus has taken up the cause of supporting them. Thanks to a generous donation of €3,000 from the SIP Scootershop in Landsberg, we are able to provide 30 families with food and gas cylinders throughout the winter. Because winter is also cold in Sicily. many thanks to the SIP Scootershop from Landsberg for their valuable support." HUMEDICA Sicily
April 2021: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to Mary's Meals
The simple vision of Mary's Meals is that every child receives a meal at school every day and that those who have more than they need share with those who lack even the basic necessities of life. "Children suffering from hunger are at the centre of our work. We provide them with a hot meal wherever we find them. At the same time, we try to put an end to their hunger in the long term. We do this in community with all those who share our vision."Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder and director of Mary's Meals
July 2021: SIP Scootershop donates €5,000 to Humanitäre Hilfe e.V.
dr Soeren Gatz was a senior consultant at Landsberg Hospital for 34 years. Ten years ago, the now 72-year-old took early retirement to fulfil a dream he had as a medical student: to bring medical aid to people in the Third World. He is a founding member of the association "Humanitäre Hilfe e. V. Landsberg, Partner für Gesundheit und Bildung". The association was founded in 2005 by doctors and nursing staff at the hospital in the Lechstadt and now has around 100 members, many of whom sacrifice their annual leave or special leave to help those in need. Dr Soeren Gatz has been the 1st Chairman since 2019. Alexander Barth, one of the Managing Directors of SIP Scootershop, has been supporting the organisation's work with regular donations for several years. At the beginning of July 2021, another 5,000 euros were handed over to Dr Soeren Gatz and his team. Read more here in the SIP Team Blog.
September 2021: SIP Scootershop donates 15,000 medical masks to India
India has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Many areas lack the most basic necessities and people are trying to make masks out of leaves due to a lack of other options. We donated 15,000 medical masks to India, where they were distributed by priests. Read more about this campaign here in the SIP Team Blog.
January 2020: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to ARCHE
As they have done for the past 10 years, employees of SIP Scootershop GmbH visited the Arche community on Wednesday 22 January 2020 and presented a donation of €3,000.
The Landsberg Ark is a community in which people with and without intellectual disabilities live together as equals on a Christian-ecumenical basis. "Since we want to enable even more people with and without intellectual disabilities to live together in an inclusive, meaningful way in mutual relationships, we are planning to build a new house in the Staufenstraße construction area and to take in 10 more residents in addition to our current 10 residents in inpatient and outpatient living. The donation from SIP Scootershop comes at just the right time, because we cannot do this on our own. What is special about the donation from SIP Scootershop is that other employees keep coming to us, not only to hand over the cheque, but also to ask questions with genuine interest, take a tour of the building and chat with our residents and colleagues over coffee and biscuits. We are also invited to the SIP Scootershop headquarters and the odd small donation reaches us in between. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks for the decade-long friendship and financial support for inclusion and the common good and are already looking forward to the next reunion!"
March 2020: SIP supports aid to Cameroon
At the end of 2014, we supported the Landsberg doctor Dr Gatz in his hospital project in Cameroon for the first time. And with what we are very good at: Logistics. This time, we helped with the dispatch of discarded hospital beds and a used ultrasound machine.
Further information on the "Humanitarian aid" project: www.humanitaere-hilfe-ev.de
April 2020: SIP donates FFP2 Respiratory Masks #covid19
In mid-March, the purchasing department of SIP Scootershop GmbH contacted Chinese business partners to organise medical Respiratory Masks in view of the shortage that still prevails today. After a few detours at the customs office, these have now arrived and SIP Scootershop has donated FFP2 Respiratory M asks to the Landsberg District Office's disaster control centre, which will take over the central coordination of distribution as required.
November 2020: SIP helps with donation raffle for children's hospitals
The organiser of the annual Vespa Corso Munich, Pastor Friedemann Plug, raffled off a new Vespa Primavera/Sprint 50cc - donated by PIAGGIO Germany. The proceeds from the sale will go to the foundation of the paediatric clinic in Schwabing and to the Ospededale Evangelico Betania in Naples. The sale of the raffle tickets was organised by us, among others, and 100% of the proceeds of €625 were passed on to Pastor Plug.
The draw took place live on the first day of Advent, 29 November 2020, 15 Clock at www.facebook.com/vespacorsomuenchen - the video is archived there.
November 2019: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to HUMEDICA
SIP Scootershop is donating €3,000 to humedica e.V., based in Kaufbeuren, near Landsberg, is an international non-governmental organisation that has provided humanitarian aid in over 90 countries since it was founded in 1979. The aim of humedica 's work is to help people who are in need due to disasters or structural poverty - currently the victims of the tsunami in Indonesia.
October 2019: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to Mary's Meals
SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to Mary's Meals. Mary's Meals provides hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest children with a hot meal every school day. Food and education enable the children to escape the spiral of misery and poverty. Founded in 1992, the aid organisation's vision is for every child to receive a meal at school every day. Mary's Meals currently feeds around 1.3 million children in Africa.
December 2019: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to the SOS Children's Village
The SOS Children's Village Ammersee-Lech has been delighted to receive an annual donation from SIP Scootershop in Landsberg since 2005. This year was no exception: SIP Scootershop employees came by in person to hand over a cheque for €3,000 for the SOS Children's Village Ammersee-Lech to division manager Angelica Benz.
May 2018: SIP Scootershop donates €400 to Arche Landsberg
At the SIP Scootershop Open Day on 5 May 2018, the SIP team carried out performance measurements for scooters in return for a donation of €10 each and handed over the proceeds of €400 to representatives of Arche Landsberg e.V.
SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to HUMEDICA
SIP Scootershop is donating €3,000 to humedica e.V., based in Kaufbeuren, near Landsberg, is an international non-governmental organisation that has provided humanitarian aid in over 90 countries since it was founded in 1979. The aim of humedica 's work is to help people who are in need due to disasters or structural poverty - currently the victims of the tsunami in Indonesia.
October 2018: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to Mary's Meals
SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to Mary's Meals. Mary's Meals provides hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest children with a hot meal every school day. Food and education enable the children to escape the spiral of misery and poverty. Founded in 1992, the aid organisation's vision is for every child to receive a meal at school every day. Mary's Meals currently feeds around 1.3 million children in Africa.
December 2018: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to the SOS Children's Village
The SOS Children's Village Ammersee-Lech has been delighted to receive an annual donation from SIP Scootershop in Landsberg since 2005. This year was no exception: SIP Scootershop employees came by in person to hand over a cheque for €3,000 for the SOS Children's Village Ammersee-Lech to division manager Angelica Benz.
November 2017: SIP Scootershop donates €4,000 to the SOS Children's Village
Now the dozen is full. For the twelfth time in a row, Landsberg-based scooter specialist SIP Scootershop has donated a proud €4,000 to the SOS Children's Village Lech-Ammersee. The mail order shop, which was founded in 1994, continues to donate one euro from every online order to the boys and girls who are cared for in Dießen. According to SOS area manager Angelica Benz (2nd from left), this year's donation will be used for therapeutic riding, which helps the often severely traumatised children enormously, but is not funded by many youth welfare organisations. Angelica Benz was therefore delighted to receive the cheque, which was presented by (from left) Ana Hachenberger, Harald Geyer and Boris Bannwitz, and returned the favour with a guided tour of the SOS Children's Village.
December 2017: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to ARCHE Landsberg
Five SIP Scootershop employees were invited to visit the residential community and hand over the cheque. "As always, we received a friendly welcome at the Landsberg Ark. We had a chat with a resident and a carer, who also gave us some information and the history of the Arche. We were then given a tour of the house and were allowed to look round the rooms and the small chapel. At around 16:30, the rest of the residents arrived from work and the conversations continued over coffee and cake. This was followed by the handover of the cheque and a group photo. We were all very impressed by how the residents and carers live together and are pleased to support this great project with our donation."
January 2016: SIP Scootershop donates to the Landsberg hospice group
SIP Scootershop has now donated €190 to the Landsberg am Lech hospice group from the proceeds of this year's Advent event, at which customers were offered mulled wine and bratwurst for a voluntary fee. SIP Scootershop GmbH supports social organisations such as the SOS Children's Village and ARCHE Landsberg as part of the SIP AID initiative.
August 2016: SIP Scootershop: Eleventh donation for SOS Children's Village
Dießen, 29 August 2016 - SIP Scootershop and social commitment are inextricably linked: Although the scooter specialist only recently mastered the move to a larger company building, this year it is supporting the SOS Children's Village for the eleventh time in a row with a donation of 4,000 euros. SOS Division Manager Christoph Rublack (centre) was delighted with the cheque, which was presented in Dießen by (from left) Bettina Thomamüller (Incoming Goods), Maximilian Reiter (Sales), Andreas Rabl (Purchasing) and Lucks Vimol (Shipping). He returned the favour with a Guidance tour of the SOS Children's Village, during which the employees of the Landsberg mail order shop also visited the residential group of unaccompanied refugees cared for by SOS Children's Villages. The donation will go towards the work of the family midwife, who supports young refugee families.
December 2016: SIP Scootershop donation to ARCHE Landsberg
As has been tradition for years, this year's Christmas donation from SIP Scootershop totalling €3,000 went to ARCHE in Landsberg. After SIP employees visited the community in their home in Iglingerstraße in recent years, this time an invitation was extended to the new premises of the SIP Scootershop. After the entry in the guest book, the scooters on display were probably the most popular. These were of course used for souvenir photos and posed diligently on them. Equipped with new caps, the tour continued through the warehouse, where the guests probably had the most fun travelling through the rows of high racks on the forklift trucks. At the end of the tour, they visited the offices and agreed to meet again soon, at the latest for pizza in the SIPeria!
July 2015: SIP Scootershop supports hospital in Cameroon
At the end of 2014, we supported the Landsberg doctor Dr Gatz in his hospital project in Cameroon for the first time. And with what we are very good at: Logistics. We packed discarded hospital beds, hospital inventory, equipment and much more into a sea container, cleared them through customs and shipped them to Cameroon. Total cost €8,000. His project is characterised by his own initiative, a high level of personal commitment, a lot of passion and, above all, an immediate impact on the people without the risk of money trickling away to places where it should not go. The second project in June 2015 was an urgently needed new ultrasound machine, which the clinic was able to purchase with a donation of €3,000 from us. The doctors are now using it to train Cameroonian colleagues, supported by a usable projector. The quality and, above all, the tropical suitability of the new ultrasound machine are first class. It can recognise clinical pictures that have been misdiagnosed for years
November 2015: "MiniMax" is delighted with SIP Scootershop
"We're delighted," beamed coordinator Alexandra Brown (right) from the SOS family meeting point MiniMax: thanks to a 4,000 euro donation from the SIP Scootershop, the broken Coffee Machine, the centrepiece of the internationally popular parent café with childcare, can finally be replaced. There is also enough money left over to buy toys for the popular toddler playgroups. During their visit to Spöttinger Straße 2a in Landsberg, Martina Haggenmüller, Ronny Berger and Julia Jarczok (from left) from SIP Scootershop were very impressed by the open facility of the SOS Family and Counselling Centre, which offers free German courses, among other things. The SOS family meeting centre MiniMax has developed from small beginnings, as has the scooter specialist SIP Scootershop. The Landsberg mail order shop has been supporting the SOS Children's Village Ammersee-Lech for ten years.
December 2015: Donation to ARCHE Landsberg
As part of the SIP AID campaign, SIP Scootershop once again made a donation to ARCHE Landsberg. It is almost a tradition for the Landsberg-based company to visit ARCHE at the end of the year and bring along a cheque. The SIP Scootershop employees were warmly welcomed by the assistants in the community rooms, where they were able to enjoy home-baked cakes and savoury pretzels. There was an informative exchange about the life and everyday life of the residents, followed by a Guidance through the house. In the meantime, the residents came home from work and the large living room filled up. They were delighted to see the team from the Landsberg scooter accessories dealer and then happily held the cheque for €3,000 in their hands. The donation can be put to good use for the upcoming renovation of the common room. It was a successful afternoon with excellent catering, interesting impressions and the feeling of having made someone happy in the run-up to Christmas.
January 2014: SIP Scootershop supports Humanitäre Hilfe e.V.
One of Humanitäre Hilfe e.V.'s projects is the reconstruction of a hospital and its further development into a reference centre in Ndoungue in Cameroon. The project manager is the former senior physician at Landsberg am Lech Hospital, Dr Soeren Gatz. Dr François Marie Djomou Touomo, who visited Germany in mid-January and provided in-depth insights into the situation in Ndoungue, is the local director. SIP Scootershop supported Humanitäre Hilfe e.V. not only with financial means (approx. €5,500) but also with manpower and logistical organisation. The task was to ship urgently needed material to Cameroon. This included discarded hospital beds, mattresses, operating theatre accessories, doctors' and patients' clothing, medical equipment and much more. No sooner said than done! On Friday 17 January 2014, the container was loaded with the help of a SIP delegation and set off on its journey to West Africa.
In the picture from left: Andreas Rabl (SIP), Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Barth (Managing Director SIP), Dr François Marie Djomou Touomo, Dr Soeren Gatz, Max Sollich (SIP), Stephan Fischer (SIP), on scooter: Sepp and Els Mergler
July 2014: SIP Scootershop donates €4,000 to the SOS Children's Village
SOS area manager Christoph Rublack (centre) was delighted and there are already some urgent measures that can now be tackled with the donation. During a visit to Dießen, he described life in the SOS Children's Village to SIP Scootershop employees (from left) Stefanie Sign Schönauer, Gudrun Pfundmayr, Uwe Kabrhel and Robert Kerner and answered numerous questions from the very interested visitors.
September 2014: SIP Scootershop supports the Landsberg Ark
We've caught the bug and are happy to take part in the Icebucket and Coldwaterchallenge. As part of the campaign, we are donating €500 to the Ark in Landsberg. Have fun with the video of the campaign and have fun with our donation to the staff and people with disabilities at the Arche!
December 2014: SIP Scootershop supports the Arche in Landsberg
Once again this year, a small delegation from the SIP Scootershop team visited the organisation in Landsberg and was able to give the company a small helping hand with a donation of €3,000. The visit from the SIP team was accompanied by coffee, delicious cake, a tour of the building including background information and a sensational flute performance by Sebastian Zimmek (front). From left to right: Christoph Gewinner, Marie-Christine, Rebecca Arndt, Tina Ossenberg, Stephan Fischer, Moritz Kohrs, Sebastian Zimmek, Stefan Book, Christian Gustafsson, Antigona Casagrande, Felix Scholz, Sissy Kratzer, Christian Seidl, Yokiku. The donations will be used to set up a leisure room where handicrafts and music can be made. The residents and their carers can also look forward to an invitation to next year's SIP Scootershop Open Day on 9 May 2015, to which they are cordially invited.
June 2013: SIP Scootershop finances trip to Finland for SOS Children's Village
The SOS Children's Village is delighted: SIP Scootershop has donated an impressive 4,000 euros to fund a two-week trip to Finland for the boys and girls to visit the SOS Children's Villages there. There, the children from Dießen will meet their peers who stopped off last year on their way to the SOS holiday village of Caldonazzo on Lake Ammersee and spent the night at Haus Mosaik. SOS area manager Christoph Rublack (3rd from left) was delighted with the donation, which can also be used to pay for further leisure activities, but above all with the long-standing loyalty of SIP Scootershop. The Landsberg-based company, which now has 70 employees, has been closely associated with the SOS Children's Village since 2005. This time, Oliver Jewellery, Jarly Surivong, Hansjörg Dahmen, Ernst Gareis and Stefan Bressel (from left) visited the facility in Dießen and showed great interest in the everyday lives of the boys and girls during a Guidance tour of the village.
December 2013: SIP Scootershop donates €3,000 to ARCHE
Once again this year, Landsberg-based scooter accessories specialist SIP Scootershop GmbH donated a sum of €3,000.00 to ARCHE Landsberg. On 17 December, a four-person delegation from the Landsberg-based company visited the residential community for disabled people in Landsberg to inspect and hand over the cheque. Here is a brief report: "When we arrived at ARCHE Landsberg in the late afternoon and were warmly welcomed, the well-laid table with coffee and cake was already waiting for us. We had a nice chat with the carers and residents and were given some information about the house and the history of ARCHE. After the meal, the residents played rehearsed pieces on their musical instruments and we were sung an Indian song. A short tour followed in Connection and the residents showed us around the house and showed us their rooms. We were impressed by the ARCHE concept, the work of the staff, some of whom are volunteers, and the wonderful residents."
SIP Scootershop has been a loyal sponsor for seven years
The most loyal regional supporters of the SOS Children's Village come from Landsberg: since 2005, the local SIP Scootershop has been donating one euro to the SOS Children's Village in Dießen with every online order. This has already raised a total of 35,700 euros. During the most recent visit to the SOS Children's Village, Sylvia Legath, Antonio Bruno, Stefanie Barth and Manuela Jurack (from left) presented Leonie with a proud 4,000 euros, much to the delight of SOS area manager Christoph Rublack.
October 2012: SIP Scootershop donates € 3,000 for Arche
This year, as in the previous year, SIP Scootershop has donated a sum of € 3,000.00 to ARCHE Landsberg. After the warm welcome we received there last year, some of our team members were once again able to visit the residents of the ARCHE this year. In the afternoon, we sat together over coffee and cake, where we learnt more about ARCHE Landsberg, upcoming projects and, of course, about the individual residents and carers. After the joint discussions, we visited the newly created garden and the new bicycle parking spaces, the construction of which was made possible by our donation last year.
Standing from left: Tobias Hümmler (SIP), Mario Rill (SIP), Julia Tyre (SIP), Julia Voggenreiter, Markus Dietl (Head of d. Arche)
Seated from left: Alfred Bartel, Sebastian Bauch (SIP), Felix Scholz, Stefan Book, Sebastian Zimmek
March 2011: SIP Scootershop donates to earthquake victims in Japan
SIP Scootershop donates €500 to the victims of the earthquake in Japan The events following the terrible earthquake and tsunami as well as the nuclear power plant accident in Japan are breathtaking. It is difficult to imagine the worries and problems of the people on the ground. We at SIP Scootershop have donated €500 for the people who have often lost everything. We have also set up the Facebook group "Scooterists support Japan after Earthquake" to show the Japanese scooter riders and the entire population that our thoughts are with them.
August 2011: Donation and raffle at the summer party at the SOS Children's Village
Dießen. The boys and girls (back from left) greeted Benny Gerum, Joscha Blank and Pierre Pahr from SIP Scootershop in Landsberg with great applause at their summer party in the SOS Children's Village. This time, the "long-standing and loyal sponsors" (SOS area manager Christoph Rublack, back right) presented a cheque for 4000 euros, which will be used for the construction of the new Mosaik House (in the background). For their part, the children used the summer party to support their peers who are currently suffering great hardship in Somalia: On the initiative of Ute Starck's children's village family, each family collected Games, puzzles, cassettes, as well as vases and Books, which served as prizes in a raffle with almost 300 tickets in favour of SOS Children's Villages in Africa. SIP Scootershop has been supporting the SOS Children's Village for years with regular donations.
November 2011: SIP Scootershop supports the Landsberg Ark
Once again this year, SIP Scootershop was able to support the Landsberg Ark with a donation of € 3,000. A small delegation of SIP employees was warmly welcomed by the residents of the Arche. In addition to a tour of the building with lots of background information, there was also home-baked cake and coffee. Afterwards, Stefan (seated, 2nd from left) put on a little show on his tuba.
Most of the donation will be used for the redesign of the garden, for covered bicycle parking spaces and a barbecue area. The stairwell is also in need of renovation. Perhaps the SIP members will be invited to the next barbecue to celebrate with the residents in the newly designed garden...
January 2010: SIP Scootershop donates for earthquake relief in Haiti
SIP Scootershop donates €500 to Caritas International for earthquake relief in Haiti. Caritas is helping on the ground with food, large tents, plastic sheets and blankets, water canisters and chlorine tablets. Alexander Barth, Managing Director of SIP Scootershop: "The people of Haiti were hit with the full force of one of the biggest natural disasters in recent history. It didn't take yesterday's aftershock to realise the unimaginable suffering that the disaster has brought to the country and its people. SIP Scootershop is aware of its social responsibility and is helping in the frame of SIP Aid by making an immediate donation to Caritas International, also in the name of all employees and customers".
August 2010: SIP Scootershop as guest at the summer party in the SOS Children's Village
Dießen. Guests at the - this time unfortunately rainy - summer party at the SOS Children's Village Ammersee were (from left) Nesli Camsari, Martin Silberhorn, Andrea Schulz and (right) Benny Gerum from SIP Scootershop in Landsberg. Together with some of the families, they enjoyed a performance by the children's band "Karacho" and the farewell ceremony for some school leavers. The employees of the mail order company for scooter accessories had not come empty-handed: They presented a cheque for 2,700 euros, which will be used to fulfil a long-held wish for self-built huts and a boat shed. According to SOS Division Manager Christoph Rublack (2nd from right), SIP Scootershop is one of the most loyal supporters in the region and donates to the SOS Children's Village with every online order.
December 2009: Scootershop is a loyal sponsor of the SOS Children's Village
Dießen. The SOS Children's Village Ammersee has found a loyal and committed sponsor in the Landsberg-based SIP Scootershop: For the fifth time in a row, the young mail-order company for scooter accessories has decided to support the boys and girls financially - with a donation of 5000 euros. The company, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, was founded in the garage of Walter Barth (left), the father of one of the two managing directors. Together with (from right) Mario Ott (dispatch), Christian Seidl with daughter Lena (dealer support, event organisation and call centre) and Otto Wermescher (incoming goods), he presented a cheque to SOS division manager Christoph Rublack. The visitors were given an interesting tour of the village and also saw the "Sonnenhaus", for whose renovation the donation will be used.
(Press release of the SOS Children's Village "Ammersee" from 11.12.2009)
May 2008: Football shirts for the SOS Children's Village in Dießen
Landsberg. The scooter dispatch specialist SIP Scootershop has been involved with the SOS Children's Village e.V. for several years as part of its SIP AID initiative. In recent weeks, the Landsberg-based company has equipped the SOS Children's Village in Dießen with new football jerseys. This was just in time for the 11th nationwide Children's Village Cup in Irschenberg. The eight to 14-year-olds from the SOS Children's Village Ammersee-Lech took part in football and streetball tournaments (7th and 8th place) and also secured a good result in the Fair Play Cup. As in training, the Dießen participants also emphasised fair play here: the children presented their own Pennants at the pitch and greeted and said goodbye to their opponents with a handshake - even if it was sometimes difficult. In football, after a highly dramatic penalty final in which Amon saved all of his opponents' penalties, the children came 7th. In the streetball final against the same opponent, a Berlin children's village, the team from Dießen came 8th, and in the football tournament they came 5th.
December 2008: Young mail order company with social awareness
SIP Scootershop in Landsberg is a young company with great social awareness. For four years now, the mail-order shop for scooter spare parts has been donating one euro for every online order to the SOS Children's Village in Dießen. SOS area manager Christoph Rublack was "very enthusiastic" about the campaign, which this year once again raised 5000 euros for the SOS Children's Village. In the summer, the shop also donated jerseys for the young athletes who successfully took part in the German Children's Village Cup. Tina Ossenberg (Incoming Goods), Kathi Struwe (Purchasing), Margarete Müller, Katharina Weigand (both Shipping), Britta Herfort (Customer Service/from left) and little Juli presented Rublack with the cheque and in return received guidance through and lots of information about the SOS Children's Village.
(Press release of the SOS Children's Village "Ammersee" from 10.12.2008)
July 2007: SOS Children's Village in Dießen is delighted to receive 5000 euros
June 2006: Scooter riders bring warmth to the family home
Another €5000 donation from SIP Scootershop for SOS Children's Village
Dießen. Since last year, the Landsberg-based online mail order company SIP Scootershop has been donating one euro per online order of Vespa accessories to the SOS Children's Village 'Ammersee' in Dießen. In September last year, €5,000 was handed over to the children's village, and now this impressive sum has been handed over for the second time at the company's premises.
The owners of SIP Scootershop, Ralf Jodl and Alexander Barth, also confirmed that the commitment will continue on an ongoing basis. "We are in the fortunate position of being in secure circumstances - we are doing well," explained the two owners, "and we would like to share this with others who are struggling more."
Christoph Rublack, area manager at the SOS Children's Village in Dießen, could hardly believe his luck: "We are very grateful to SIP Scootershop for its great commitment," he explained at the cheque presentation, and explained what the money will be used for this time: the SOS Children's Village is currently renovating a family home so that a modern place to live can be created for another children's village family. The first donation had already been used for the extension, and the sum now handed over will be used to finance a fireplace and the associated wood-burning stove in the new extension. "The children's village family," reports Rublack, "would like to counter the spiralling energy costs by using wood as an inexpensive and renewable fuel." In addition, a stove radiates the warmth and cosiness that children and adults alike often appreciate so much.
For more information about the SOS Children's Village: www.sos-kd-ammersee.de
(Press release of the Landsberger Tagblatt from 20/06/2006)
July 2006: SIP Scootershop and GRAVIS present "Apple Mac Mini"
Computer retailer GRAVIS in co-operation with SIP Scootershop hands over an "Apple mac mini" computer worth around €800 to the mother of the Dießen SOS Children's Village. This means that duty planning, daily documentation etc. can now be computerised without viruses, worms and annoying system crashes.
September 2005: SIP Scootershop hands over €5000 donation
Landsberg online company makes a commitment to the Dießen SOS Children's Village Dießen. Since spring 2005, the Landsberg mail order company for Vespa and scooter spare parts SIP Scootershop has donated one euro to the SOS Children's Village for every online order. Now the SOS Children's Village 'Ammersee' in Dießen has been presented with the impressive sum of €5,000.
The company has been committed to social projects for years - now it has decided to support the SOS Children's Villages. For the two owners Ralf Jodl and Alexander Barth, the reason for this was that many young people are cared for in the SOS Children's Villages, as young people are also strongly represented among the Scootershop's customers. Furthermore, according to Jodl at the donation handover, SOS Children's Villages is a social organisation that operates worldwide - and many orders for spare parts now come from abroad.
"We are in the fortunate position of being in secure circumstances - we are doing well," the two owners continued, "and we would like to share this with others who are struggling more." According to SOS Children's Village division manager Christoph Rublack, the sum will go towards the upcoming extension of a family home: "We can only shoulder this considerable investment with the help of individuals and companies who support us financially." Six children who cannot live with their biological parents will live together as a family with an SOS Children's Village mother in the remodelled family house, which is due to be completed in mid-2006. Rublack warmly thanked the donors for their commitment, and they went one better: the plan is to continue the programme on a permanent basis. SIP Scootershop also referred to SOS Children's Villages on its website.
(Press release of the SOS Children's Village "Ammersee" from 20/09/2005)
December 2004: Tsunami in Asia
We spontaneously donated to the German Red Cross for the victims of the tsunami in Asia, as this donation was quickly on the spot with a large team and is geared towards long-term aid.
(Landsberger Tagblatt from 04.01.2005) "SIP Scootershop from Landsberg donated 500 euros to the German Red Cross to support their work in the tsunami disaster in South Asia. There is also an appeal for donations to all customers on the SIP Scootershop website"
(The donation campaign on the website has now expired!)
September 2002: Flood disaster on the Elbe
We collected donations from our customers for the victims of the flood of the century in East Germany. We doubled every euro donated. The donations went to the Landsberg partner town of Waldheim.
(Landsberger Tagblatt of 16 September 2002)"The company SIP Scootershop asked customers who had ordered goods for donations for the flood victims. Ralf Jodl told the LT that the employees also added something, so that a donation of 527.35 euros was collected. SIP Scootershop donated this sum to the trade association of the twin town Waldheim."
Why SOS Children's Villages Germany?
The name SOS Children's Villages symbolises: Girls and boys who cannot grow up in their own parental home find a new home here. Children live there with their Nut and siblings in one house - permanently and around the clock. They play, laugh, argue and celebrate just like in a real family. This is very important for the children, who often come to an SOS Children's Village with painful experiences. Here they find people with whom they can build long-term trust and who are reliably there for them. www. sos-kinderdorf.de
Why Ark Germany?
There are arks in many countries around the world. The aim of the Ark is to create communities that welcome people with intellectual disabilities. Non-disabled and mentally disabled people live together in a house and organise their everyday life together. Each member of the house community has their own room. Cooking and eating is done together, and housekeeping is also a joint endeavour. There has been an Arche Haus in Landsberg with 12 residents since 2001.www.arche-deutschland.de
Why HUMEDICA?
HUMEDICA is an international non-governmental organisation that has provided humanitarian aid in over 90 countries since it was founded in 1979. The aim of humedica's work is to help people who are in need as a result of disasters or structural poverty.www.humedica.org
Why Mary's Meals?
Mary's Meals provides hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest children with a hot meal every school day. Food and education enable children to escape the spiral of misery and poverty. Founded in 1992, the aid organisation's vision is for every child to receive a meal at school every day. Mary's Meals currently feeds around 1.3 million children in Africa. www.marysmeals.de
Why Humanitarian Aid e.V.?
dr Soeren Gatz was a senior consultant at Landsberg Hospital for 34 years. Ten years ago, the now 72-year-old took early retirement to fulfil a dream he had already harboured as a medical student: to bring medical aid to people in the Third World. He is a founding member of the association "Humanitäre Hilfe e. V. Landsberg, Partner für Gesundheit und Bildung". The association was founded in 2005 by doctors and nursing staff at the hospital in the Lechstadt and now has around 100 members, many of whom sacrifice their annual leave or special leave to help those in need. Dr Soeren Gatz has been the 1st Chairman since 2019. In cooperation with local NGOs and the Evangelical Church (EEC), the association supports eight hospitals and several schools in Cameroon. The NGOs Bon Secours and World Mercy Fund (WMF) took over the logistics and together they have brought over 100 beds and medical equipment of all kinds to the civil war-torn country on the west coast of Africa since 2015. The German government and sponsors from industry also support the projects. The training and further education of local staff plays a major role, and the words of a doctor from Cameroon still ring in Dr Gatz's ears today: "They didn't bring us fish, they taught us how to fish." http://www.humanitaere-hilfe-ev.de
Why Médecins Sans Frontières?
On 24 March 2022, the Russian army invades Ukraine. The images that reach us from there are dramatic. We are in contact with customers from Kiev and the Vespa Club of Ukraine. We want to help. The choice falls on "Doctors Without Borders", the organisation is already on the ground throughout the country, but also on the Ukrainian-Polish border where hundreds of thousands of refugees are arriving. Civilians urgently need to be protected, relief supplies delivered - priority must be given to caring for the injured.
We support the organisation Doctors Without Borders as a partner company within the frame of SIP Aid. You can find more information here: https: //www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de
