Leading NI manufacturer MJM Group has welcomed over 1,200 guests to its inaugural Engine Show in Ballykelly.

The event, which took place on Sunday 04 August, saw visitors come out in force for a family day out with more than 200 vehicles including trucks, tractors, vintage cars and machinery, plus live country music.

This was held as part of the company's ongoing effort to start a community fund to support local causes and charities. Since 2016, MJM Group has put almost £30,000 back into local community projects including funding remedial works on the King's Lane Community Centre, providing a prefab building for the NorthWest Lifelong Learning, a defibrillator for the community, providing sponsorship to Ballykelly Primary School and supporting the youth events at the community centre including sponsoring the selection boxes for the Christmas activities.

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Deborah Loughran, MJM Group explained: "The Engine Show in Ballykelly was the brainchild of Eddie Crozier, a friend of the business, who is well known in the haulage and Irish Country music worlds. We worked with Eddie, our team at the Ballykelly site and the local community to use the exceptional space at Shackleton to create a family fun event for all the family. Not only has this opened the site up for the community to see it but we have used it as an opportunity to start a Community Fund. This will support local causes and charities to benefit the wider Ballykelly area. We hope to have up to several thousand pounds to put back into local causes."

The company is now calling on the public to identify other causes and community projects in the area which would benefit from MJM fundraising. If interested, you can fill out the enquiry form on www.theengineshow.com.

MJM will make a further announcement about the fund locally in due course.

(CM/MH)