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Travis Perkins and Northampton Saints’ charity toy collection runs for eighth year
Travis Perkins has teamed up with Northampton Saints and Northampton Saints Foundation to share donations from colleagues, customers and the club’s supporters for families in need, and young people in care. The eighth Travis Perkins and Northampton Saints Christmas Toy Collection, which this year also collected food items for seasonal hampers for disadvantaged families. Supporters and colleagues spent up to £10 on a new toy, gift, or five food hamper items to put in a festive Christmas bag.
Marley donates £1,000 to The British Skin Foundation
Donations were made at Saints’ Gallagher Premiership fixture against Bath Rugby on December 4. Travis Perkins colleagues and customers also used their local branches and offices to drop off hundreds of toys and items in advance of Saturday’s game. Since the campaign first launched in 2013, thousands of young people have benefited from the support from Travis Perkins’ colleagues and Northampton Saints supporters. In addition to the Toy & Hamper Collection, Travis Perkins and Northampton
Saints will donate two bags of toys and dozens of care packages to the children’s ward and Macmillan Cancer Support unit at Northampton General Hospital. Travis Perkins managing director, Kieran Griffin, said: “We
Band of Builders repair home of 93-year-old former bricklayer
Marley has raised £1,000 for The British Skin Foundation charity as a result of their ‘Safe in the Sun’ campaign. The initiative sought to highlight the damaging effects of sunrays such as premature skin ageing, heat exhaustion and deadly malignant melanoma, particularly for those in the construction industry working outdoors.
Marley has been championing safety in the sun for well over fifteen years. This year, the company’s ‘Safe in the Sun’ campaign saw it focus on three important lines of defence in the fight against sun-induced illness: covering up, sunscreen use and hydration. Marley created a ‘Safe in the Sun’ kit, designed especially for outdoor construction workers such as roofers, including a Marley-branded T shirt, sunscreen and water bottle and pledged £1 for The British Skin Foundation,for each kit sent out.
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A team of volunteer builders from across the UK are set to travel to Stoke-on-Trent to repair the home of 93-year-old former bricklayer, Tom Knapper. He was recently diagnosed with cancer of the liver, has had two heart attacks and suffers from arthritis. As a result, he is no longer able to maintain the bungalow he built himself in 1970 for his late wife June and their three children.
Knapper’s son Adrian put out
a cry for help to Band of Builders – a registered charity that completes practical projects to help members of the UK construction industry who are battling illness or injury. The charity is mobilising a team to carry out the work over the weekend of December 11 and 12. The team will be making a series of improvements to the family home which includes upgrading his central heating system and plumbing in the bathroom, putting new steps
are so proud to be part of the Big Toy & Hamper Collection once again this year, and to be able to help families, young people and children in our community. This year our colleagues, customers and Saints’ supporters have generously donated hundreds of toys for the Northamptonshire Children’s Trust and Northampton General Hospital’s children’s ward. We’d like to thank everyone who takes part; they should know they will have made a real difference to a family, child or young person who really needs it.”
outside the front door, fixing the garage roof, and changing the guttering.
Band of Builders operations director, Tony Steel, said: “This is a heart-warming story of a man who has spent his 50-year career building thousands of homes for other families across Stoke-on-Trent and beyond – and it’s a great opportunity for our generation to help Tom to stay safe, warm and secure in the house he built. Tom’s project exemplifies the work of the Band of Builders community in completing practical projects to support members of the UK construction industry.”
Hughes Forrest raises over £6000
Indepdent builders merchant Hughes Forrest has recently raised £6325 for Velindre, the Hospital of Hope who have been providing specialist treatment and supportive care to cancer patients in Wales for over 60 years.
The fundraising raffle was driven by Andrew Thomas from their Blackwood branch, who felt inspired to act having seen his friend and Branch Manager Gareth Jenkins undergo both surgery and chemotherapy to fight cancer this year. Jenkins has now returned to work but his treatment will continue.
The raffle received tremendous support from suppliers, customers and the NBG South West Region and Thomas finished having almost doubled his original target. The money will be used for research, specialist nurses, therapies and equipment often not provided by the NHS. More people than ever are living with cancer and survival rates have doubled in the last 40 years through better treatment and earlier detection. Needless to say everyone at Hughes Forrest is very proud of both Andrew and Gareth.
Gareth Jenkins (Left) Andrew Thomas (Right)
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