Fundraising is Child's Play for TNT

07-Mar-2008

Record-breaking fundraisers from the UK's 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 communications and associated learning and behavioural difficulties.

TNT Express Services employees from the company's Thetford Depot visited The Priory School in Bury St Edmunds 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 enable to school's pupils to both learn and have fun at playtime.

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 - contributed £70,000 over the last few years towards interactive equipment, an external play area and more recently towards the provision of The St.Edmunds Well Being Centre - a dedicated staffed facility providing a range of daytime and evening activities at the school.

Roger Mackenzie, Head Teacher said: "TNT and the Wooden Spoon have made a significant contribution to the well being of students at The Priory School, 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.

Mike Brooks, Depot General Manager at TNT Express in Thetford said: "Meeting the staff and youngsters at The Priory School 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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