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Could you raise £175 for your industry charity? Visit the Housewares LIVE stand at Spring Fair to find out how you could be one of the Rainy Day Trust’s stars of 2018
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018 is a very significant year for the Rainy Day Trust, the charity of the housewares and home
improvement industry. It was in 1843 – 175 years ago – that the
charity we know now as the Rainy Day Trust came into being. And to mark the event, the Trust has set itself a new fund-raising goal: to get 175 people in the industry to raise £175 each to help fund the charity’s continued work. “Of course, today’s Rainy Day Trust is a far cry
from the charity founded by a group of philanthropic ironmongers all those years ago,” says Trust president Neville Singer, who has spent his working life in the housewares industry. “Then, its main role was to provide pensions
for people who had worked in the industry, and who had fallen on hard times. For many, the charity was all that stood between them and the much-feared workhouse.” Nowadays, the Rainy Day Trust still supports
former and present industry employees and their dependents with annual grants, and by contributing to the cost of home maintenance and improvements, mobility aids, holiday costs, and much more. “And we are constantly seeking new ways to help and support people who have worked in the industry,” Neville says. “We know – because they tell us – that the Rainy Day Trust makes a real difference to their lives.”
Among the latest initiatives launched by the Trust are:
• Apprenticeship support, for people learning new skills in apprenticeships within the home improvement sector;
• Fuel poverty help, aimed at helping the thousands who have to decide between eating and heating each winter;
• Legal Express service, for anyone who is having trouble finding and paying for legal advice;
• Telephone counselling, for the times when all you need is an understanding ear;
• E-Learning training and skills programmes, to give people in the industry a hand up the career ladder; • And a free-to-use welfare benefits calculator, to help people living on benefits figure out exactly what they are entitled to. So, could you be one of the 175 people
we’re looking for? One of the people who will help us to make a difference? All you have to do is undertake to raise £175 for the Rainy Day
January/February 2018
Trust during the course of 2018 – and we don’t care how you do it! Just about anything that you can encourage friends and colleagues to sponsor is fine with us. Examples could include:
• Running a marathon – or just a fun run; • Climbing a mountain; • Cycling to work instead of driving; • Swimming the channel (in lengths at your local pool); • Baking a cake or hosting a coffee morning; • Organising a ‘dress-up’ day at work; • Going alcohol-free for a month; • Jumping out of a plane (preferably with a parachute) or off a mountain (with a hang- glider); • Shaving your head or growing a moustache (or both!).
“For companies in the housewares
industry, supporting the Rainy Day Trust is simply a no-brainer”
At this year’s Spring Fair, the Rainy Day
Trust is once again being hosted by our friends at Datateam Business Media, publisher of ‘Housewares Magazine’, ‘Garden Centre Update’, ‘DIY Week’, and ‘Builders Merchants Journal’. Come along and see us at the Housewares LIVE stand (Hall 9 E80) where we will be very happy to sign you up as one of the Rainy Day Trust stars of 2018. And you will also have a chance to take part
in the Trust’s 175th birthday raffle. Major prizes an overnight package for two - donated by Meyer - at Swinton Country Club & Spa at Ripon in Yorkshire (including a cookery course at Swinton Park Cookery Club), and a Calor Gas barbecue set worth £500, with other great rewards up for grabs too. Tickets cost just £2 each and the winners will be drawn on March 24, which is the Rainy Day Trust’s Founders Day. Finally, for companies in the housewares and home improvement industry, supporting the Rainy Day Trust is simply a no-brainer. Please talk with us before signing your company up, as becoming a Rainy Day Trust Partner will send
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a powerful message to your staff and colleagues that you believe firmly in the industry charity. Be seen to be ‘putting something back’. It will
create a powerful team-building ethos, encouraging your people to put their support behind the company. And it will tick all the boxes on your Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scheme. Dozens of companies in the housewares and home improvement industry have already signed up as partners, recognising both the importance of the Trust’s work and the value of being seen to support it.
• For more information on the Partner scheme, visit
rainydaytrust.org.uk, or call the Trust on 0121 237 1132, or come along to the Housewares LIVE stand (Hall 9 E80). We’ll be happy to see you
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