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Filstorage celebrates 30 years with 30 charitable acts
Storage specialist Filstorage is set to complete 30 charitable acts over 12 months to celebrate 30 years in business.
The year-long celebration, which finished at the end of May, has seen Eastrington-based Filstorage sponsor a host of local sporting teams, take part in a charity walks, and host their own events. The activities concluded with Filstorage sponsoring the Music in the Park event at Spaldington, held in aid of Cure
Parkinson’s, which will include a performance from Flo Taylor, daughter of Filstorage directors Paul and Alison Taylor. The company also donated a range of storage and handling equipment to Hull community hub/food bank HU4 Community Trust to help them to organise their storerooms more effectively. The idea for the charity campaign came about after Filstorage employees couldn’t agree on a single charity to
support across the year to mark the business’s 30th anniversary. Beneficiaries include Goole Rugby Club, Pocklington Rugby Club, Hessle Theatre Group, Howden Rotary Club, the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institute, Leukaemia Care and Research, Hull and East Yorkshire MIND, Dementia UK and more than 20 other clubs and organisations. Marketing manager, Tom Catchpole says: “Being based in a rural community, we’ve always
been a charitable business that has wanted to support the local area as much as possible,” he said.
“With the 30th anniversary, we wanted to do more than that and we were looking to nominate a charity of the year which we could do 12 months’ of fundraising for.“
Covers provides ‘perch-fect’ foundations for charity owls
The team at Covers Timber & Builders Merchants has lent their expertise to Chestnut Tree House’s The Big Hoot. The outdoor art trail will feature 30 owl sculptures, each uniquely decorated by local and national artists, which will be placed along an outdoor and fully accessible trail across Chichester and Arundel between 10th July and 1st September 2024. In addition to the large owl sculptures, a parliament of
little owls, decorated by local schools and children’s groups, will be located at indoor venues throughout Chichester.
At the end of the trail, the 30 owls will be auctioned to raise vital funds to support Chestnut Tree House. The hospice provides care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions in Sussex and South East Hampshire. Alison Taylor, corporate fundraising manager at Chestnut Tree House, said: “We are
Builders merchants’ charity footie tournament is a resounding success
Chandlers Building Supplies, in collaboration with sister brands Parker Building Supplies and Fairalls Builders Merchants, raised in excess of £1,200 for charity, at a football tournament earlier this month.
The charity five-a-side football tournament, raising funds for
Teenage Cancer Trust, kicked-off at Tonbridge Angels FC with over 60 participants. Teams were entered by builders merchants branches across the South East including Chandlers Building Supplies Thanet, Chandlers Roofing Supplies Tonbridge; Parkers Building Supplies Maidstone, Worthing, Hove, Bexhill; Fairalls Builders Merchants Gatwick and Godstone; and builder customer Kingsheath Construction. The combined team from Worthing & Hove were the tournament winners. Andrew Machin, of Thanet’s Chandlers Building Supplies, said: “It was a great day and we are thrilled to hand over these funds to Teenage Cancer Trust, a charity dedicated to providing support to young people aged 13-24 with cancer. A big thank you to local Thanet groundworks and civils company AGS Ltd for generously sponsoring the team shirts and to everyone who turned up on the day to support this initiative.”
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incredibly thankful for the generous support from businesses like Covers. It has been invaluable in bringing The Big Hoot to life and supporting our mission of providing vital care to children with life-shortening conditions and their families.”
Henry Green, managing director of Covers, said: “Since 2015, Covers has, with the help of our customers, donated almost £250,000 to hospices across the South East that play crucial roles
Leyland steps up for Hackney Foodbank
The Hackney store of decorating Leyland ecorating and DIY specialist has donated materials to their local food bank, including masonry paint and rollers, brooms, garden shears and shovels.
The charity recently re- located its main warehouse and offices from Hoxton to the Wally Foster Community Centre in Homerton, enabling it to cope with growing local demand.
Sally Newsom, Corporate Partnerships Manager at Hackney Foodbank, said: “We are extremely grateful to Leyland and its Hackney team
for this generous donation. “Our new warehouse is a fantastic space, but it lay empty for some time and really needs some TLC, particularly as it’s in a very visible location. The team at Leyland was quick to support. They understood the issues we face and the worsening problem of poverty in the area. These materials will be a huge help and we can’t wait to carry out the work.”
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in providing care to those in the communities our 17 depots serve. We are always looking for innovative ideas for how we can do more, and our team was delighted to be involved with Chestnut Tree House’s The Big Hoot by using their skills to make 30 plinths for the owl sculptures to be mounted on. We look forward to following the trail.” Once the trail is live, an app will be available to help people locate all the owl sculptures.
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