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 disabled or disadvantaged youngsters.
TNT Express Services employees from the company's Slough Depot visited Karers-4-Kidz, The Wooden Spoon Mobility Training and Recreation Centre in Hillingdon 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 disabled children 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 £80,000 towards a new playground at Rocket Park designed to enable wheelchair users to develop skills and techniques to allow them to participate in competitive games.
Katrina Bijowski, Project Manager said: "TNT and the Wooden Spoon have made a significant contribution to the well being of students at Karers-4-Kidz, for which we are very grateful."
Well 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.
Richard Sullivan, Operations Supervisor at TNT Express in Slough said: "Meeting the staff and youngsters at Karers-4-Kidz 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."