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 physical disabilities.
TNT Express Services employees from the company's Alton depot visited Treloar College in Holybourne, Alton as part of a groundbreaking initiative being championed by TNT and the Wooden Spoon called 'Seeing is Believing'. They witnessed how the money the company generates is being used to enable the College students to receive an education designed to meet their particular capabilities including support to learn the vital independence skills they will need for adult life, therapy and medical care.
TNT Express Services is the biggest single contributor to the Wooden Spoon, raising over £2.3 million in cash donations in the past eleven 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 £40,000 towards the building of a communal sitting room and outside terrace within a new, specially adapted hall of residence at Treloar College.
Kate Walker, Head of Appeals said: "TNT and the Wooden Spoon have made a significant contribution to the well being of students at Treloar College, for which we are very grateful."
Over 2,000 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.
Jon Hadley, General Manager at the depot on the Mill Lane Industrial Estate in Alton said: "Meeting the staff and youngsters at Treloar College and seeing how our fundraising efforts are making a difference was a tremendously humbling experience."
Chairman of the Wooden Spoon Steuart Howie 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."