14.02.2007

TP goes red on Valentine's Day

Travis Perkins' staff will be dressing in red today to show support and raise money for two charities. The leading building and construction supplier is supporting two new charities over the next two years - learning disability Mencap and children's charity NCH.
With more than 750 TP branches nationwide, the company hopes its 'wear it red' day will raise in the region of £10,000.
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Roger Jemmott and Colin Veitch of Travis Perkins’ London City Branch ‘wear it red’ for Mencap’s Fiona Stanley and NCH’s Hannah Dring and Dominique Shorten

Dame Jo Williams, Mencap’s chief executive, said: “We are so excited about this new partnership and the foundations we will be able to lay. The fact that staff members are willing to dress up for Mencap and show a bit of love for charity on Valentine’s Day is such a good way of cementing our relationship. The money raised over the next two years will help us build futures for people with a learning disability.”

Carol Kavanagh, Travis Perkins' group HR director and chair of the staff charity committee, added: "Charity fundraising has become an integral part of life for colleagues across the Travis Perkins Group; they really do know how to put the fun in fundraising. We are very much looking forward to our exciting new partnership with Mencap and NCH, both are extremely important and worthwhile charities."

NCH Chief Executive, Clare Tickell, said: “NCH works with over 160,000 of the country’s most vulnerable children, young people and their families, and this new partnership will raise vital funds for our work.

As the launch event for the new charity partnership every member of Travis Perkins’ 14,000 staff must donate money on the 14 February – a pound to wear red or two pounds for those who forget.

This is the first of many planned fundraising events for the coming year. NCH and Mencap are working closely to ensure that Travis Perkins’ staff are kept fully informed about the different charities, the work they do work and how the fundraising supports people with a learning disability and vulnerable children across the UK.