Posted: 7th February 2017 | Back to news feed
Car owners have never had it easier when it comes to selling their motors, whether it’s in the local paper, online auction sites, or with a dealership. It’s a rarity, then, to hear of a car being donated for free but that’s exactly what happened on a wet January morning this week.
Jill Carver is the owner of Added Ingredients on Stert Street in Abingdon, a deli and café that specialises in fine foods and wine, hampers, cookware and other local produce and products. She is also the Secretary of the Abingdon-on-Thames Chamber of Commerce, and when the opportunity arose to give something back to the community that she is so much a part of, her well-loved Seat Toledo made its final journey.
“It may have done over 100,000 miles in the 18 years I’ve owned it but it’s never let me down. It’s been to France and back many times, and survived Oxfordshire floods where 4x4s couldn’t,” said Jill, speaking from inside Abingdon & Witney College’s multi-bay motor vehicle garage.
“As an independent business owner and Secretary of the Abingdon Chamber, helping to support the infrastructure and community spirit in Abingdon is very important to me, and I’m happy that the car will continue to serve as a practical and educational tool at the College. I hope the students get as much joy taking it apart as I have driving it over the years.”
Daniel Flannery, one of the key staff involved in motor vehicle courses at the College, had the pleasure of taking the keys from Jill:
“We’d like to thank Jill on behalf of the College for generously donating her Seat to us. There’s no better way for the students to apply the skills they’re learning here than getting under the bonnet and under the car to find out how everything works, the real nuts and bolts of it. So to get a free car to work on is just brilliant and I’m sure the students, both current and future, will make the most of it.”
More information on our motor vehicle courses can be found here: www.abingdon-witney.ac.uk/motor-vehicle
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