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Abingdon Riding for the Disabled staff at the Oxford Bus Company with OBC managing director Phil Southall Picture: Greig Box Turnbull Two ponies paid Oxford Bus Company a special visit to celebrate the unveiling of a double-decker emblazoned in a riding charity’s branding.
Abingdon Riding for the Disabled Association scooped second place in the company’s annual Brand the Bus competition. Its prize was having the rear of a bus wrapped in the charity’s branding to help raise awareness of the local good cause. Members of Abingdon Riding for the Disabled Association, along with two of its prized ponies, Jasper and Jim-Bob, visited the Cowley House depot in Oxford this week to see the vehicle for the first time.
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OXFORD Bus Company has launched its annual Brand the Bus competition – for a local charity or good cause to have its branding on a double-decker. Entries are now open for good causes, or its supporters, to submit a short video or PDF presentation on why it should win the Brand the Bus competition in their unique livery. The winner will be in good company among the growing fleet of buses branded with good causes. Girl Guiding Oxfordshire won the inaugural 2019 Brand the Bus competition, Home-Start Oxford scooped first place in 2020 and Blue Skye Thinking won the 2021 contest. Abingdon Riding for the Disabled Association was also awarded the space on the back of a bus as runners up in the 2021 competition.
Oxford Bus Company revealed that Blue Skye Thinking as the winner of Brand the Bus. The charity will now be invited to work with the company to design a bus wrap featuring the brand colours, logo and messages of the organisation. The winner was selected by a judging panel from a top ten group of good causes which had earned the most public votes from 23 original entries. Blue Skye Thinking supports treatment and research into childhood brain tumours. It was set up by Abingdon-based couple Sally and Andrew Hall in the honour of their son who passed away aged five because of complications in his treatment for a brain tumour.