Community & Sponsorship in Javea

The Friends of the Children of EMAÚS is a registered Spanish charity (charity number G-54138805) operating across the Northern Costa Blanca. It exists for one purpose: to raise additional funds for children in the care of EMAÚS, the long-established children's-shelter association founded in Altea in 1979 by Francisco Nadal.

EMAÚS now operates nine children's shelters across the Costa Blanca region, caring for around 90 children aged between 2 and 18 — children placed in care by Spanish social services because of impossible family circumstances or, in some cases, no family at all. The shelters are run as family units, each with qualified social workers specialising in sociology, special-needs teaching, and child psychology. While EMAÚS receives core funding from the Generalitat Valenciana, that funding has never been enough — and the Friends of the Children of EMAÚS exists specifically to bridge that gap.

Turner Insurance Specialists has been a sponsor of the annual Christmas Fayres in Javea since 2018 — the principal fundraising event for the Friends of the Children of EMAÚS. The two annual fayres bring together more than 90 stallholders across two Sundays each November at a venue in Javea, with all proceeds going directly to the charity. The 2024 fayres raised over €6,600 for the children of EMAÚS — a meaningful uplift on the previous year's total.

Our sponsorship contributes to the fixed costs of running the fayres — venue, printing, advertising — so that more of the public's contributions go directly to the charity. We are pleased to share the sponsor list with other local Javea businesses including Scorchio (relocation and translation), Lumon (currency exchange), Mariposa Energía (solar), and Ale Hop (the 2,000 paper shopping bags handed out at the door).

Confirmed by Female Focus Online magazine in their May 2025 community feature, where Turner Insurance Javea is described as"sponsor and long time supporter of these events."

From 2017 through to its closure in 2024, Turner Insurance Specialists was the championship sponsor of the Javea Green Bowls Club at the Inn on the Green — a privately-owned bowls green between Benitachell and Javea, with nine rinks and over 150 members at its peak. The club drew its membership largely from the British, Irish, Northern European and Australian expat communities of the Marina Alta, and was for almost two decades one of the most active expat sporting communities on the northern Costa Blanca.

Andrew Turner attended each year's prize-giving in person, presenting the trophies and the prize money for the semi-finalists, runners-up and champions, alongside an annual fuel-voucher prize draw open to all participating players. We documented each year's championship as a separate news article on the Turner Insurance blog at the time, and have re-published those four reports here:

The club's closure in 2024 was a loss to the expat sporting community on the northern Costa Blanca. The 2017–2024 sponsorship is now an archived chapter of our community involvement, but a meaningful one: it represents the kind of multi-year, named-individual, in-person sponsorship that small local businesses in Javea contribute to community life every year, with very little fanfare and no expectation of return.

About the Javea Green Bowls Club

The Javea Green Bowls Club was a lawn bowls club. It served the Marina Alta, on the northern Costa Blanca. It was also known simply as the Javea Bowls Club. The green sat at the Inn on the Green, between Javea and Benitachell. It was privately owned and had nine rinks.

At its peak the club had over 150 members. They came from the British, Irish, Northern European and Australian expat communities. The club ran for almost two decades before it closed in 2024.

Turner Insurance was the championship sponsor from 2017 to 2024. Andrew Turner presented the trophies and prize money in person each year. Our four annual reports are archived above. The last one covers the final 2024 championships.