Fundraising is Child's Play for TNT

07-Mar-2008

Record-breaking fundraisers from leading express delivery company TNT have been seeing first hand how their efforts to generate cash for children's charity Wooden Spoon are helping youngsters with severe epileptic conditions.

TNT Express Services employees from the company's Crawley Depot visited the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy in Lingfield as part of a groundbreaking initiative being championed by TNT and the Wooden Spoon. They witnessed how the money the company generates is being used to provide a residential schooling facility for young people with epilepsy.

TNT Express Services is the biggest single contributor to the Wooden Spoon, raising well over £2 million in cash donations in the past ten years. In turn, the Wooden Spoon provides funding for children's projects across the UK to support youngsters who are disadvantaged physically, mentally or socially. Spoon - with the help of TNT -donated £25,400 towards the new Play Area at the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy.

Ruth Arnolds, Community Fund Raiser said: "TNT and the Wooden Spoon have made a significant contribution to the well being of students at The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy here in Surrey, for which we are very grateful."

Well over 1,500 TNT employees have so far participated in a series of visits to see how the funds they help generate are used to benefit tens of thousands of disabled and disadvantaged youngsters around the UK. Entitled 'Seeing is Believing' the programme is designed to help further motivate them and build even stronger ties between TNT and Wooden Spoon.

Tom Donovan, Depot Manager at TNT Express in Crawley said: "Meeting the staff and youngsters at The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy and seeing how our fundraising efforts are making a difference was a tremendously humbling experience."

Chairman of the Wooden Spoon Roger Davies said: "'Seeing is Believing' is a fantastic initiative that motivates all those taking part, but of course the real winners are the children who rely on the endeavours and generosity of the TNT Express Services workforce."

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