AND FINALLY
Draper Tools Advent Calendar raises £3,000 for NHS Charities Together
Leading tool firm, Draper Tools, launched its 2020 tool advent calendar earlier this year, featuring 24 doors of tools to open in the countdown to Christmas. With Christmas being the season of goodwill, the company has been donating £1 from the sale of every calendar to NHS Charities Together in recognition of hardworking NHS staff everywhere. The calendar has been so popular that Draper Tools was able to donate £3,000 to the charity.
The limited-edition calendar
sold out in a matter of weeks, Kev Smith- head of marketing at Draper Tools commented: “It’s been such a challenging year for everyone, especially the NHS and we were keen to give something back to show our support. Throughout the year Draper staff have been out on their doorsteps clapping and we all got behind Captain Tom Moore and his amazing achievements for the NHS too.” “When the time came to launch our advent calendar, we all felt it made sense to donate
mental health charities The Builders Merchants Federation raised £5,000 for charity by encouraging members to don their best festive jumpers and join them for a virtual Christmas party last month. The funds raised will be shared equally between Mental Health UK and the Samaritans, the two charities the BMF has supported throughout the year. BMF CEO John Newcomb said: “I would like to thank everyone who made a donation to support our Christmas Charity Event. The charities we are supporting help to make sure that no-one has to face mental health challenges alone. The impact of Covid-19 has seen demand for the services of these charities increase significantly and
BMF’s festive event raises £5K for
their work has been invaluable throughout this turbulent year.” Virtual guests enjoyed an evening of games, quizzes, celebrity guest appearances and on-line networking.
The Christmas Quiz, compered by the BMF’s very own quizmaster extraordinare, David Millward, was a resounding
success...for some, and showed the benefits of having done two PTA and one Rugby Club quizzes in the preceding weeks. (Ed: it’s not what you know, oh, wait, yes, it IS what you know that counts)
Anyone wishing to donate to the BMF’s charity fundraising can do so at
uk.virginmoneygiving.com/ bmfchristmascharityquiz
Covers donates materials to
Covers Timber & Builders Merchant in Southampton donated materials to Shirley Warren Action Church to help it create a silhouette Nativity scene. The builders’ merchant provided sheets of plywood to the church, which has built the life-size display on the grass in its grounds. During the evening, the display is lit up and receives visitors from across the community with many of them taking photographs.
Reverend Jenny Elliott from 30
some of the proceeds to NHS Charities Together as a further way to recognise our NHS heroes. And it seems our customers felt the same way too – we’ve been so happy to see the reaction to this year’s calendar and how it’s been helping people countdown to Christmas. We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who bought one this year.”
The 2020 Draper Tools Advent Calendar received widespread media attention and was named as one of the best in the national
CombiKids children’s book now published
An exciting new children’s book has been launched just in time for Christmas. Collaboration between forklift manufacturer Combilift and award-winning Irish author Emer Conlon has resulted in “The Forklifts and their Secret Superpowers”, which depicts the main Combilift products as cartoon characters. Innovation has been a hallmark of Combilift and this has now been extended to capture children’s imaginations.
The combination of a children’s book and one of the largest indigenous companies in Ireland may not seem a likely fit, but according to Emer this is a novel way to communicate with
Shirley Warren Action Church said: “It felt very important to have a visual picture of the Nativity, which represents the true meaning of Christmas, outside for all the community to see.
press and was even featured on the Chris Moyles Show on Radio X. It includes 24 doors of specially selected tools to open and build your own 49 Piece Tool Kit. It has been so successful that Draper Tools has now completely sold out of advent calendars and has already begun planning for next year’s edition.
existing and potential customers, as well as being involved in the education of the next generation. “I also wanted to use it as a marketing tool for the adults and so I used the USPs of the actual forklifts and turned them into the superpowers of the characters. That way both adults and children would get something from the book. “Martin McVicar, Combilift MD, really liked the idea – especially the educational aspect for children and as a result, CombiKids was created.”
create community nativity scene Community boost from Selco Selco Builders Warehouse opened its 140,000 sq ft site on Cater Road in Bishopsworth on Monday, ending a 25 year stay at its branch in Bedmin- ster. To mark the opening, Selco has made a £1,000 donation to Young Bristol, as well as pledging a further £2,000 to its nominated charity Global’s Make Some Noise to support small charities it works with in Bristol. Mark Jones, branch manager, said: “We are extremely excited to have opened in Bishopsworth, not least because it is the biggest of our 69 Selco branches in the UK.
“Due to the many restrictions placed on indoor worship, and because our outdoor Nativity scene was sadly subjected to an arson attack in 2015, we all felt a strong need to create something outside where people could come and go freely whenever they wanted.”
www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net January 2021
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