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Training provider backs Community Meal project


Award-winning training provider Babington is supporting the Community Meal project to help YMCA Derbyshire and Head High, a local mental health organisation. The Community Meal is held


on the last Friday of each month at YMCA Derbyshire’s London Road Campus, with the aim of bringing people together from different backgrounds to enjoy a welcoming space and food to nourish both body and mind. Carole Carson, CEO,


Babington, said: “I am so proud of my team for supporting our local YMCA. Supporting our local community is very important to us, and hosting the meal helps us to truly give something back.”


Housebuilder names three charities for 2018


Ilkeston-based housebuilder Fairgrove Homes is doing its bit for charity after pledging its support to three named charities for 2018. Fairgrove is building upon its


corporate social responsibility strategy – making its long-term focus about people, communities and the environment. To help make a significant difference within Fairgrove’s communities, a charity committee has been organised with the sole purpose of raising money for the company’s three nominated charities – The Ben Parker Trust Fund, Treetops Hospice and Padley Group. Fairgrove Homes MD Steve


Midgley said: “As a builder of new homes, we continuously revitalise areas and create exciting communities in which people can enjoy their lives.”


Skydivers leap to the aid of Alzheimer’s Society


Banner Jones employees Sara Patel and Stacey Lee-Davenport jumped from 15,000ft recently to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. The duo raised over £1,450 for


the charity while falling at 120mph in the fundraising tandem skydive, which took place at Langar Airfield in Nottingham. Sara, a paralegal in the firm’s


Employment Law team, said: “The Skydive was an amazing experience in aid of a very important charity, and it was an honour to contribute to the work of the Alzheimer’s Society to help support people to live well with dementia today and fund research to find a cure for tomorrow.”


14 business network July/August 2018 Age UK’s personal


assistants offers flexible and reliable support


Charity launches personal assistants for the elderly


Increasing numbers of older people have been asking Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland to take them out rather than provide support within the home – so much so the charity has decided to launch a Personal Assistant Service. Having a personal assistant is a


tried and tested way of getting flexible and reliable support for adults with physical and mental issues or those just needing a helping hand as they get older. Age UK has taken this concept


and removed the challenges that employing your own personal assistant can bring, including candidate vetting and interviewing, payroll and contracts. This means that having a personal assistant is now straightforward, easy and effective with the complexity taken


‘As a charity we are all about helping people to stay independent for as long as possible’


away and managed by Age UK. Executive Director of Age UK


Leicester Shire & Rutland Tony Donovan said: “As a charity we are all about helping people to stay independent for as long as possible and supporting them in the way that they direct us to. In response to need, the Personal Assistant Service will bring a new dimension to this work and allow people to benefit from the flexibility it can offer but without needing to take on the extra paperwork, cost and time implications of employing someone. “The Age UK Leicester Shire &


Rutland personal assistants will be happy to help with whatever is


needed either at home or in the community. Their range of support will include help with phone calls, bill payment and correspondence, help with domestic tasks and household management and help to attend community activities, excursions, medical appointments and shopping. “Age UK’s trained staff have the


skills, personal qualities, time and ability to respond to the needs of their clients flexibly, thoughtfully and with empathy. The service is geared to respond well to a mixed range of tasks which is led by and responsive to what the individual wants help with on any given day.”


Bus timetables to be digital-only


Arriva Midlands has announced that it will stop printing traditional paper timetables in Leicester after revealing that the unused or outdated copies that go to waste every single year would stretch the same length as 1,344 Olympic-sized swimming pools. The local bus operator, which runs services


throughout Leicestershire, is encouraging bus users to try digital schedules in an attempt to cut down paper consumption across its vast local network. Estimating that, despite printing to demand, a huge


60,000 paper schedules go unused annually due to route or network changes introduced to make its bus services more efficient, Arriva made the decision to


cease printing the timetables when the company’s latest revamp to local services takes place. Simon Finnie, Area Managing Director for Arriva Midlands, said: “Laid end-to-end, unused paper timetables from the past 12 months would stretch 67.2km, roughly the same length of 5,600 buses and more than five times the height most commercial airlines fly at. “We are placing greater emphasis on green issues


and are committed to making changes to ensure we play our part in tackling climate change, so seeing figures like this and not acting upon them would be a disservice to ourselves and the people we serve.”


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