AND FINALLY
Selco celebrates £200,000 charity milstone
Selco Builders Warehouse is celebrating raising a mammoth £200,000 for Cancer Research UK.
The nationwide builders merchant has been supporting the charity for the last year with customers, colleagues and
suppliers joining forces to help beat cancer through a series of fundraising events. These have included taking on the Thames Path and Lake District Peaks Walking Challenges, cycle rides, golf days and special themed occasions at Selco’s 74 branches across the UK. Money raised will help Cancer Research UK’s research into the prevention and treatment of cancer through the work of over 4,000 doctors, nurses and scientists. Carine Jessamine, marketing director of Selco Builders Warehouse, said: “It has been a monumental year of fundraising and a huge effort from everyone involved. “To be able to raise such a sizeable amount of money for Cancer Research UK is something everyone associated with Selco is extremely proud of. Right from the moment colleagues voted for Cancer Research UK to be our nominated partner, we have seen fantastic engagement in fundraising. Nearly everyone has seen their lives touched by cancer in one way or another and to be able to help Cancer Research UK fund vital research has been a real motivating factor. We look forward to raising more funds for this brilliant charity in 2023.”
BoB gears up for 2023 builds
National construction charity Band of Builders has announced the projects that it plans to deliver this year to help members of construction industry who are battling illness or injury, making a life-changing difference to them and their families. The organisation plans at least five substantial projects in Suffolk, North Yorkshire, Cornwall, Surrey and South Wales. The beneficiaries include a trainee bricklayer who suffered a catastrophic brain aneurysm; the eight-year-old son of a general builder, who became quadriplegic after contracting meningococcal septicaemia; and a builders’ merchant employee who was left paralysed from the waist down after a spinal abscess. Band of Builders operations director Tony Steel said that work is well underway in planning to deliver these projects, and the charity is already galvanising support from its near 50,000-strong community of volunteers and supporters. “It’s a heart-breaking process reading all of the applications that we receive from members of the construction industry and their families – who all desperately need help. We selected a number of projects that met our criteria and put them forward to the board of trustees, who have given us the go-ahead to plan and deliver five projects this year.”
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