Cash conversion delivers help for homeless youngsters

posted: Wednesday, 26 August 2009

26th August 2009


Birmingham-based express delivery giant TNT is teaming up with children's charity, Wooden Spoon, and leading rugby clubs across the country to convert cash donations into life-changing opportunities for youngsters and teenagers alike.

The company, with its depot at Network Park, Duddeston Mill Road in the Saltley area of the city - is the biggest benefactor of the charity that has improved the quality of life for thousands of children who are disadvantaged mentally, physically and socially.

Having generated well over £2 million for Wooden Spoon, TNT's funding is now providing the foundations for a groundbreaking initiative that uses the sport of rugby to help children and young adults overcome adversity in their lives.

Entitled 'Spoon Community Rugby' (SCR), the programme is delivering training courses designed to tackle a num