Charity: B.Braun; DONG Energy; M&S
AN appeal to raise vital funds for a state-of-the-art helipad for South Yorkshire is flying a little closer to its target after a £1,000 donation from a healthcare company.
Employees from B. Braun Medical chose to donate £1,000 from the firm’s Annual Chief Executive’s Honorary Award to Sheffield Hospitals Charity’s Helipad Appeal.
Each year B. Braun chief executive and chairman Hans Hux chooses a department or team at the medical company to receive the annual award, with team members choosing to donate the money to charities of their choice.
Mr Hux said: “The Helipad Appeal is a great cause and we hope this donation takes Sheffield Hospitals Charity that bit closer to meeting its target sooner.”
The appeal aims to raise money for a new £2m helipad, next to the Accident and Emergency Department at Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital.
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A £10m fund is being launched by DONG Energy to help local community projects on the UK East Coast over the next 20 years.
The East Coast Community Fund is being set up to ensure that local people benefit from the operation of two of the company’s offshore wind farms – Race Bank and Hornsea Project One – which are both now under construction. It will distribute around half a million pounds a year to help local initiatives for each of the next 20 years.
“We believe local people should get a chance to benefit from the construction and operation of offshore wind farms which are some of the UK’s biggest energy infrastructure projects,” said Brent Cheshire, UK country chairman of DONG Energy.
“Although our wind farms are located offshore, their transmission connections require onshore facilities and our construction and operations bases are very much a part of local communities. This fund is a practical way in which we can say thank you for the fantastic support we get.”
The East Coast Community Fund will be managed and administered by an independent grant-making charity to be appointed shortly. One of its early tasks will be to launch a public consultation on how and where the funds can be distributed most effectively.
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M&S stores across the Leeds and Bradford area are calling on local people to roll up their sleeves and ‘Spark Something Good’ by joining around 100 M&S employees in a week of volunteering that will positively impact 24 projects at the heart of local communities.
Spark Something Good will see 24 projects take place across 24 cities in the UK and Ireland over the course of 24 months. Leeds and Bradford have been selected as the next cities to host an M&S Spark Something Good event following the launch of the initiative in London last summer. From Monday April 18 to Sunday April 24, M&S employees and customers will come together and donate their time to improving local community spaces.
In Leeds, the retailer is returning to Simon Marks Court, a care home specialising in dementia care, 28 years after it made a £1m donation in 1988 to mark 100 years since the birth of Simon Marks, son of M&S founder Michael Marks. The team will be transforming a disused lounge into a café area and creating a relaxation room for residents and their families. Seacroft Grange Primary School will see an outbuilding transformed into a positive learning environment called Gateway to Gold, as well as creating raised beds in the garden for classes to grow their own plants and vegetables.
In Bradford, Forster Square will undergo a dramatic makeover, including new flower beds and hanging baskets and urban knitting wrapped around pillars and trees to brighten up the public space and give Bradford the welcoming platform it deserves. InnChurches will see its new intercepted food distribution centre, The Storehouse, given an upgrade with colourful murals and planting at the entrance. InnChurches will also be hosting a pay-as-you-feel fruit and veg market to encourage the local community groups to increase their access to fresh affordable food.
