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Selco helps make eight-year-old Luke’s Christmas
The family of Luke Shaw, a pupil at
Selco Builders Warehouse got a new manager for its Warrington branch when an eight-year old swapped the school classroom for the manager’s chair.
Keyline helps park cars
The Colchester branch of Keyline has donated
materials to The Sick Children’s Trust to enable the charity to build a shelter
for outdoor toys kept at Acorn House, which is based in the grounds of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
Acorn House, which is run by The Sick Children’s Trust, supports
families with
children undergoing specialist treatment at Addenbrooke’s Hospital with free ‘Home from Home’ accommodation, enabling families to stay together when their child is seriously ill in hospital.
The charity has a number of outdoor toys that
were kept in the garden of Acorn House in all types of weather. The new shelter means the toys will now stay clean and dry, ready for use by children staying in the house. Lee Moore-Williams, key account manager at Keyline, said: “When my little girl was extremely poorly and being treated at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, my wife and I stayed at Acorn House for over a month. Without the home from home house I’m not sure how we would have coped, so Keyline Colchester was delighted to support The Sick Children’s Trust and provide materials for the toy shed; it’s great to hear the shelter has made a difference.”
34 Häfele UK helps make wishes
come true this Christmas Staff at Häfele UK have raised a total of £10,800 for When You Wish Upon A Star, the charity that grants the wishes of children living with life- threatening illnesses. The company is well on its way to increasing the current total to £20,000.
The money has been raised over the course of the year, with employees at every level taking part in a variety of fundraising activities, including quizzes, sporting events and cake sales. The company’s recent Laps for Lapland event, which involved employees walking or running around Draycote Water, raised £2,500. The money raised will pay for children with life-threatening illnesses to spend a magical day with Father Christmas in Lapland.
January 2018 BMJ
St Vincent’s Catholic Primary School in Finlay Avenue, Warrngton regularly visits the branch on a Saturday with his father, a painter and decorator. His family posted a video on social media of the youngster detailing his affection for Selco Builders Warehouse. On seeing the video, Selco arranged for him to be picked up in a delivery truck by Warrington branch manager Paul Birtles and taken to the Milner Street branch where he spent the morning carrying out the managerial duties. Luke got to sit in the manager’s chair, serve a customer, do a tannoy announcement - and even tell off a member of staff and put a full English breakfast on the manager’s tab! Kate Shaw, Luke’s mother, said: “It was a fantastic gesture from Selco and Luke loved it. He hasn’t stopped talking about it since and it has made his whole year, let alone Christmas.
“He loves everything about Selco and always waves at the trucks and vans when we see them on the road. “It was a great experience for him
and I can’t thank Selco enough. When we posted the initial video of Luke saying how much he loved Selco, we never imagined anything like this would happen.”
Regular branch manager Paul said: “Luke was an absolute star and it was a real pleasure to give him the surprise. “You could tell how excited he was to be the branch manager for the morning and he really embraced all of the jobs he did.
“Luke is a definite Selco branch manager in the making.”
Selco also teamed up with Rugby League club Warrington Wolves to secure Luke a signed ball and two tickets to the opening game of next season against Leeds Rhinos in February.
Ridgeons raises EACH funds
Ridgeons has raised over £4,600 for East Anglia Children’s Hospices in support of the charity’s EACHmas fundraising initiative.
The employees at 10 Ridgeons branches in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk created Christmas raffles for colleagues, customers and trade suppliers. The top fundraising branch was Sudbury in Suffolk where £1,329 was raised. Ridgeons has set a goal of raising £30,000 over a two-year period for EACH; so far, over £21,000 has been raised. The East Anglia Children’s Hospices care for 368 children and young people with a life-threatening condition and support 459 family members.
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