Donation Projects since 1994

Dezember 2016: SIP Scootershop Spende an die ARCHE Landsberg

Wie seit Jahren Tradition, ging auch dieses Jahr die Weihnachtsspende des SIP Scootershop in Höhe von 3.000 €an die ARCHE in Landsberg. Nachdem in den letzten Jahren SIP Mitarbeiter die Gemeinschaft in ihrem Haus in der Iglingerstraße besuchten, wurde diesmal eine Einladung in die neuen Räumlichkeiten des SIP Scootershops ausgesprochen. Nach dem Eintrag ins Gästebuch, begeisterten die ausgestellten Roller wohl am meisten. Diese wurden natürlich für Erinnerungsfotos genutzt und fleißig darauf posiert. Mit neuen Mützen ausgestattet ging der Rundgang weiter durch das Warenlager, dort hatten die Gäste wohl die größte Freude daran, auf den Gabelstaplern durch die Reihen der Hochregale mitzufahren. Zum Abschluss wurden die Büroräume besichtigt und ein baldiges Wiedersehen vereinbart, spätestens zum Pizzaessen in der SIPeria !

August 2016: SIP Scootershop: 11th donation to SOS Children's Village

August 29, 2016 - SIP Scootershop and social responsibility are inseparable: although the scooter specialist recently mastered the move to a larger company building, he supported this year for the eleventh time in a row, the SOS Children's Village with a donation of 4,000 Euros. SOS Director Christoph Rublack (center) was very pleased with the check, Bettina Thomamüller (left side, goods receipt), Maximilian Reiter (sales), Andreas Rabl (purchase) and Lucks Vimol (shipping) presented in Dießen. He retaliated with a tour of the SOS Children's Village, where the employees of the Landsberg based mailorder shop also visited the residential group of unaccompanied refugees.

January 2016: Donation to the Hospiz Gruppe Landsberg

From the earnings of this year's Advent-Event for customers with hot wine and bratwurst against voluntary payment SIP Scootershop donated 190 € to the Hospiz Group Landsberg. SIP Scootershop Gmbh supports social institutions such as SOS Children´s village and ARCHE Landsberg within the SIP Aid foundation. In the picture at check handover (from left): Tamara Geppert, Gerd Plotz and Andrea Schuz-Gebhardt.

December 2015: Donation to the ARCHE Landsberg

We here at the SIP Scootershop have once again donated funds to the people at the local 'ARCHE LANDSBERG', within the framework of the 'SIP AID' charitable program. It has almost become a tradition that some of our team visit the facility in order to present the annual cheque. Our colleagues were heartily welcomed into the communal area, enjoying the home-baked cakes and traditional pretzels. They were also brought up-to-date on the current activities and everyday experiences of the people who live there, followed by a guided tour through the whole house. In the meantime most of the current inhabitants had returned from work, slowly filling the large communal lounge area. They were all very pleased to meet the SIP team members and gratefully received the € 3.000 cheque. The money will be put to good use financing the renovation of the communal rooms. The afternoon proved a success with excellent catering, interesting impressions and the feeling to have made people happy has certainly improved the overall Yuletide cheer!

November 2015: „MiniMax“ happy about donation from SIP Scootershop

“This has made us really happy!” beamed Alexandra Brown (on the right), the coordinator at the SOS-Kinderdorf 'MiniMax’ family day-centre facility. Thanks to the € 4000 donation from SIP Scootershop the defective coffee-making machine, long a focal point to the cosmopolitan guests of the parents café, to at last be replaced with a brand-new version! Additionally toys and playthings can be purchased to equip the very popular playgroups from the remaining funds. While they were visiting the centre – at Spöttinger Strasse in Landsberg - Martina Hagenmüller, Ronny Berger and Julia Jarczok (from the left) were impressed by the open facilities at the SOS family centre and citizens advice bureaux. They even offer free German language courses! The 'MiniMax SOS' family day-centre shares similar humble origins with the SIP Scootershop, as both organisations started out relatively small to grow and expand to their present-day sizes. The mail-order specialists from Landsberg am Lech have been actively supporting the Ammersee – Lech 'SOS Kids Village' facility for ten years now.

July 2015: SIP Scootershop supports hospital in Cameroon

In 2014 we have supported for the first time the Landsberg doctor Dr. Gatz in his hospital project in Cameroon. We did that with what we can do quite well: logistics. We helped him to load discarded hospital beds, hospital equipment, appliances and much more into a sea container, cleared customs and shipped to Cameroon. Total cost € 8,000. About his project we love his individual initiative, personal commitment, his passion and above all it´s immediate effect without the risk of money getting lost in obscure channels. The second project in July 2015 was a much needed new ultrasound made possible to purchase by a donation from us about € 3,000.

December 2014: Scooter Shop supports the “ARCHE”, a facility for mentally retarded people.

Also this year, a small delegation of the SIP Scootershop team visited the home for handicapped people “Arche” and donated 3.000 €. For the visit of the SIP team there was coffee, delicious cake, a house tour incl. background informations 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 Buchner, Christina Gustafsson, Antigona Casa Grande, Felix Scholz, Sissy Kratzer, Christian Seidl, Yokiku. The donations will be used for the building of a leisure room where handicrafts and music can be made.

September 2014 - SIP Scootershop supports L'Arche Landsberg

We got a call and of course we joined the Icebucket- / Coldwaterchallenge. And our donation goes to the ARCHE, home and place for handicaped people. Enjoy the video and share!

July 2014 - SIP Scooter Shop donates € 4,000 to the SOS Children's Village

SOS Director Christoph Rublack (center) was very happy and there are already some urgent measures that they can now tackle with the donation. On a visit to Landsberg´s children village he described the SIP Scootershop employees (from left) Stefanie, Gudrun, Uwe and Robert life in the SOS Children's Village and answered the numerous questions of very interested visitors.

January 2014 – SIP Scootershop supports Humanitarian Aid reg. Ch.

One of the projects of Humanitarian Aid reg. Ch. is the reconstruction of a hospital in Ndoungue, Cameroon and its development into a reference center. The project manager Dr. med. Soeren Gatz used to work as an assistant medical director at the Klinikum Landsberg am Lech. In Ndoungue, the project is led by Dr. François Marie Djomou Touomo, who visited Germany in January and shared deep insights into the project with us. SIP Scootershop decided to support Humanitarian Aid reg. Ch. not only financially (5.500 €), but also with manpower and logistics. Urgently needed material – such as hospital beds, mattresses, medical instruments and clothes - had to be shipped to Cameroon. No sooner said than done. On Friday, 17 Jan 2014 a SIP delegation helped to load the container and prepare it for the shipment to West Africa.

On the picture from left to right: Andreas Rabl (SIP), Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Barth (CEO SIP), Dr. François Marie Djomou Touomo, Dr. med. Soeren Gatz, Max Sollich (SIP), Stephan Fischer (SIP), on scooter: Sepp and Els Mergler

December 2013 – SIP Scootershop donates 3.000 € to the ARCHE

As in the previous years, the Landsberg based mail order specialist for scooter parts SIP Scootershop GmbH has donated € 3000.- to the ARCHE Landsberg. On Dec 17, 4 members of the SIP staff paid a visit to the flat sharing community in Landsberg to hand over the cheque. Here’s a short report: „When we arrived at the ARCHE in the afternoon, a richly laden coffee table was waiting for us. We had the opportunity to chat with residents and members of staff and were provided with interesting insights into the work and history of the organization. The ARCHE is a global organization that installs communities of disabled persons. After we had finished our coffee and cake, some of the residents played on their instruments and performed an Indian song for us. Then we were shown around the house and the rooms of the residents. We were very impressed with the conception of the ARCH, as well as with the amazing cooperation between staff, volunteers and residents.“

June 2013 - SIP Scootershop funds SOS-Children’s Village’s trip to Finland

July, 2, 2013. The SOS-Children’s Village Dießen is cheering: Thanks to a €4.000.- donation of SIP Scootershop the boys and girls will be able to travel to Finland and meet their friends. They got to know each other last year, when the Finnish kids were on their way to the SOS-holiday village Caldonazzo and stopped by at the Ammersee to spend one night in the Mosaik house. SOS-area director Christoph Rublack (3. from left) is not only very happy about the donation (that will also help to realize further leisure activities), but also about SIP Scootershop’s continuous support. The Landsberg based company (which currently employs 70 members of staff) has been closely connected to the Children’s Village since 2005. This time (from left) Oliver Schmuck, Jarly Surivong, Hansjörg Dahmen, Ernst Gareis and Stefan Bressel paid a visit to the institution in Dießen and were very interested in the boys‘ and girls‘ daily routine at the Children’s Village.

Oktober 2012 – SIP Scootershop donates € 3.000 to l'Arche

Once again SIP Scootershop donated €3.000,00 to ARCHE Landsberg. Just like last year, some members of SIP staff visited the residents of the local ARCHE and were cordially received there. In the afternoon they enjoyed coffee and cake and learned more about the ARCHE Landsberg, the people who live there and upcoming projects… Afterwards the SIP team had a chance to see the newly designed garden and bicycle parking spaces that were enabled by SIP’s donation of last year.

Standing from left: Tobias Hümmler (SIP), Mario Rill (SIP), Julia Reif (SIP), Julia Voggenreiter, Markus Dietl (Leiter d. Arche)
Sitting from left: Alfred Bartel, Sebastian Bauch (SIP), Felix Scholz, Stefan Buchner, Sebastian Zimmek

SIP Scootershop trusty sponsor for seven straight years

The most trusty regional sponsors of the SOS Childrens’ Village are from Landsberg: since 2005 SIP Scootershop donates one Euro for every online order they receive through their webshop to the SOS Childrens’ Village in Dießen. All in all, the donations now amount to 35,700 Euro. Their latest visit brought staff members Sylvia Legath, Antonio Bruno, Stefanie Barth and Manuela Jurack with Leonie to the village where they were able to hand over a cheque worth 4,000 to SOS area manager Christoph Rublack.

November 2011 - SIP Scootershop supports L'Arche Landsberg

Once again SIP Scootershop was able to donate € 3.000,- to the local Arche in Landsberg. A small SIP delegation was warmly welcomed by the Arche residents. The SIP staff was shown round the building, then everybody had some tasty homemade cake and coffee. Stefan (sitting, 2nd left) performed a lovely song on his tuba.


The donation will be used for the redesign of the garden, for covered bicycle parking and a barbecue area. Also the staircase is still in need of renovation. And maybe the SIP staff will be invited to the next barbecue party to celebrate with the Arche residents in their newly designed garden...

August 2011 - Donation and raffle at summer festival of SOS Children’s Village

Dießen. The boys and girls of local SOS Children’s Village gave (rear from left) Benny Gerum, Joscha Blank and Pierre Pahr from SIP Scootershop in Landsberg a warm welcome when they visited their annual summer festival. As a “longterm and faithful sposor” (SOS Children’s Village regional manager Christoph Rublack, rear right), they handed over a check over 4,000 Euro which will be used to build the new house “Mosaic” (in the background). In turn the children took the opportunity of the summer festival to campaign for children of the same age who currently suffer from the drought in Somalia: the Children’s Village family of Ute Starck started an initiative so every family collected puzzles, cassettes as well as vases and books which served as prizes in a raffle comprising close to 300 lots. All proceeds were donated towards SOS Children’s Village in Africa. SIP Scootershop regularly donates towards SOS Children’s Village since a couple of years.

March 2011: SIP Scootershop donates 500 € for the victims of earthquake and tsunami in Japan The events unfolding in Japan after the horrible earthquake and the tsunami as well as the disaster that struck the nuclear power plant are breathtaking. It is hard to imagine the worries and problems of the people affected by these events. The SIP Scootershop team donated 500 € to the japanese Red Cross. Also we founded the Facebook group „Scooterists support Japan after Earthquake“ and show Japanese scooterists and the whole Japanese people that our thoughts and prayers are with them.

November 2010 – S.I.P. Scootershop donates € 3.000 to l'Arche

Everybody at L’Arche Landsberg was very happy to welcome Alex Barth and Ralf Jodl, the managing directors of SIP Scootershop, who had come to present the house-sharing community of people with and without mental disabilities with a €3000.- check on the occasion of the renovation of L’Arche’s aged house on Erpftinger Straße. SIP’s noble donation is a more than welcome help, because the renovation was very costly but also necessary and will definitely prove to be a sustained success. SIP Scootershop is happy to be able to contribe to the improvement of the Arche-community’s living conditions.

SIP Scootershop at the SOS Children’s Village’s summer party

Dießen. Guests at this year’s– unfortunately rainy – summer party of the SOS-Childern’s Village Ammersee (left to right): Nesli Camsari, Martin Silberhorn, Andrea Schulz and (right) Benny Gerum of SIP Scootershop in Landsberg. Together with a part of the families, they saw the kids-band “Karacho” and celebrated the farewell of some graduates. The staff of the scooter-parts mail order company had not come with empty hands. They presented the SOS Children’s Village with a € 2.700.- check, that was supposed to make the long standing wish for selfmade huts and a boathouse come true. SOS-Division manager Christoph Rublack (2. right) says that SIP Scootershop was one of the most faithful local supporters of the SOS-Children’s Village and contributed with every online order.

January 2010 - SIP Scootershop donates to earthquake relief Haiti

SIP Scootershop donates 500 € to the Haiti earthquake relief fund of Caritas International. Caritas is helping the people of Haiti by handing out food, large tents, tarpaulins and blankets, water cans and chlorine tablets. Alexander Barth, CEO of SIP Scootershop: “The people in Haiti have been struck with full force by one of the largest natural disasters in recent history. Even before the aftershock yesterday we should have realized how much suffering beyond all imagination has affected this country and its people. SIP Scootershop is aware of its social responsibility and will help by an ad hoc donation through SIP Aid, also on behalf of all employees and customers”

December 2009 - Scootershop is a faithful patron of the SOS-children's village

Dießen. The SOS children’s village Ammersee has found a faithful and committed patron in SIP Scootershop: this is already the fifth time that the emerging mailorder shop for scooter spare parts has decided to support the boys and girls financially – with a donation of 5,000 Euro. The company, which celebrated its 15th year of existence this year, began as a start-up in the garage of Walter Barth (left), the father of one of the company’s two CEOs. Accompanied by (from right) Mario Ott (Shipping), Christian Seidl with daughter Lena (Key Account, Events and Call Center) and Otto Wermescher (Incoming Goods), Mr Barth handed over a check to area manager Christoph Rublack. The curious visitors went on a guided tour through the village where they came to see the “Sonnenhaus”. The donation will be used to renovate this house

(Press release of the SOS Kinderdorf “Ammersee“, 11.12.2009)

December 2008 - Young mailorder shop showing social responsibility

SIP Scootershop from Landsberg/Germany is a company that is showing its commitment to fulfilling its social responsibility. For four years now, the mailorder shop for scooter spare parts has been donating one Euro for every online order received through their webshop to the child care organization SOS Kinderdorf e.V. located at the neighbouring town of Dießen. SOS area manager Christoph Rublack expressed his “sincere enthusiasm” about this commitment which led to another 5000 Euro being donated to the organization’s local child care center this year. The shop had already equipped the center’s soccer team with a brand-new set of jerseys this summer. Proudly sporting their new gear, the team has successfully participated at the German Kinderdorf cup. Mr Rublack received the cheque from the hands of Tina Ossenberg (incoming goods department), Kathi Struwe (purchase department), Margarete Müller, Katharina Weigand (both shipping department), Britta Herfort (customer service/left to right) and little Juli. In return, the team was able to participate in a guided tour of the child care center and went home with lots of interesting facts about the work that is done there.

(Press release of the SOS Kinderdorf “Ammersee“, 10.12.2008)

May 2008 – Soccer gear for SOS-Kinderdorf in Diessen

Landsberg. Scooter mailorder specialist SIP Scootershop engages itself for some years in the context of its SIP AID Inititiativefor the SOS Children Village organisation. In these weeks the Landsberg enterprise equipped the local SOS Children Village with new soccer gear. Right in time to the 11th country wide Kinderdorf Cup in Irschenberg, Bavaria. The eight to 14-year old youngsters from the SOS Children Village Ammersee-Lech participated thereby in football and Streetball tournaments (7th and 8th place) and secured themselves also a good result with the Fairness trophy.

Diessen. For the past year, the Landsberg online mail order firm, SIP Scootershop, has contributed one Euro for each online order of Vespa products for the Diessen SOS Kinderdorf at Ammersee. This is the second time the Landsberg firm donated 5,000 € to the charitable organization; last year SIP Scootershop donated the same amount to SOS Kinderdorf.

SIP Scootershop owners, Ralf Jodl and Alexander Barth, announced their contribution plan will become a permanent fixture of their company. "We are grateful to be doing well and we want to share with those who are less fortunate," said the two.


Christoph Rublack, area director of SOS Kinderdorf, Diessen, was overjoyed: "We are very grateful for SIP Scootershop's engagement", Rublack said, as the check was presented. Plans for the donation have already been made: the SOS Kinderdorf is presently renovating a building to house another Kinderdorf family. The first contribution has already been used for renovations; the additional sum is earmarked for a new chimney and a proper wood burning stove. "The Kinderdorf family", said Rublack, "plans to lower heating costs by using wood as a low priced fuel alternative, and wood is a renewable fuel source." An additional aspect is, wood ovens radiate warmth and comfort, highly appreciated by both children and adults.
For further information about SOS Kinderdorf:www.sos-kd-ammersee.de
(Press information Landsberg Tagblatt, June 20, 2006.)

July 2006 - Computer dealer GRAVIS i, together with SIP Scootershop, hands over an Apple computer "mini mac", worth 800€, to the Kinderdorf mothers of the Diessen SOS Kinderdorf. Now, the mothers can organize rosters, daily documentation, etc., on a virus and worm free computer renowned for dependability.

July 2007 – SOS-Kinderdorf in Diessen happy about 5,000 € donation SIP Scootershop contributes one Euro for every online order

June, 2006 - Scooter Pilots heat up family house
Another 5,000 € contribution from SIP Scootershop for SOS Kinderdorf

Diessen. For the past year, the Landsberg online mail order firm, SIP Scootershop, has contributed one Euro for each online order of Vespa products for the Diessen SOS Kinderdorf at Ammersee. This is the second time the Landsberg firm donated 5,000 € to the charitable organization; last year SIP Scootershop donated the same amount to SOS Kinderdorf.

SIP Scootershop owners, Ralf Jodl and Alexander Barth, announced their contribution plan will become a permanent fixture of their company. "We are grateful to be doing well and we want to share with those who are less fortunate," said the two.


Christoph Rublack, area director of SOS Kinderdorf, Diessen, was overjoyed: "We are very grateful for SIP Scootershop's engagement", Rublack said, as the check was presented. Plans for the donation have already been made: the SOS Kinderdorf is presently renovating a building to house another Kinderdorf family. The first contribution has already been used for renovations; the additional sum is earmarked for a new chimney and a proper wood burning stove. "The Kinderdorf family", said Rublack, "plans to lower heating costs by using wood as a low priced fuel alternative, and wood is a renewable fuel source." An additional aspect is, wood ovens radiate warmth and comfort, highly appreciated by both children and adults.
For further information about SOS Kinderdorf:www.sos-kd-ammersee.de
(Press information Landsberg Tagblatt, June 20, 2006.)

July 2006 - Computer dealer GRAVIS i, together with SIP Scootershop, hands over an Apple computer "mini mac", worth 800€, to the Kinderdorf mothers of the Diessen SOS Kinderdorf. Now, the mothers can organize rosters, daily documentation, etc., on a virus and worm free computer renowned for dependability.

September 2005 – – SIP Scootershop übergibt 5000-€-Spende:

Starting in spring 2005, Landsberg-based mailorder shop for Vespa and scooter spare parts SIP Scootershop has donated € 1,- to SOS-Kinderdorf Germany [child care organization] for every online order it received. By now, a considerable amount of € 5,000 has accumulated and could be handed over to the SOS-Kinderdorf Germany.

The company has been actively supporting community projects for years – now it had decided to give a helping hand to the SOS-Kinderdorf project. According to the two owners of the company, Ralf Jodl and Alexander Barth, this decision was based on the fact that SOS-Kinderdorf provides a home for many young people, and the youth is prominently represented among the scooter company’s clients. Moreover, as Jodl pointed out while the donation was presented, SOS-Kinderdorf is a community project that is active in all parts of the world – and by now lots of orders for spare parts are received from abroad.

The owners both agreed that “[we] are lucky enough to live in a stable and secure personal environment – we are well off and would like to share this good fortune with others who have to fight harder for their well-being”. According to SOS-Kinderdorf area manager Christoph Rublack the amount will be used to continue the upcoming extension of a family house: “This considerable investment can only be sustained with the help of both individuals as well as companies that offer financial support”. Within the converted family house, which is to be completed as of mid-2006, six children, who are not able to live with their real parents, will live together as a family with a SOS-Kinderdorf mother. Rublack gave sincere thanks to the donators for their commitment while they, in turn, decided to even extend the help: plans are being drawn up to carry on the support project on a permanent basis. SIP Scootershop has also featured SOS-Kinderdorf on its website.

(Press release of the SOS Kinderdorf “Ammersee“, 10.09.2005)

December 2004 – Tsunami in Asia: we spontaneously donated to the German Red Cross for the victims of the tsunami in Asia, because this donation reached its destination fast by the help of a big team which was prepared to offer long-term help.

(Landsberg Newspaper of January 4, 2005) „SIP Scootershop in Landsberg donated 500 Euro to the German Red Cross in order to support its involvement concerning the flood in South Asia. An additional call for donations among all customers can be found on the SIP Scootershop internet homepage“ (The donation project on the homepage has expired by now!)

September 2002 – we collected donations for the victims of the great flood in Eastern Germany from our customers. We donated an additional Euro for every Euro donated by our customers. The donations were forwarded to Waldheim, the twin city of Landsberg.

(Landsberg Newspaper of September 16, 2002) „The company SIP Scootershop has asked customers who ordered goods with SIP to donate for the victims of the flood. The staff added some more money, as Ralf Jodl told the LT, so that a donation of 527,35 Euro could be made. This amount has been forwarded by SIP Scootershop to the trade union of the twin city Waldheim.“