Over £6,720 raised for Age UK Peterborough

During September and October each year, Peterborough-based Safe Local Trades organise fund-raising events for their chosen charity Age UK Peterborough. In 2014, there were several skydives organised and a team took part in the annual Great Eastern Run. All events were an overall success and the organiser, Eileen Le Voi, owner of Safe Local Trades, said: “We would like to thank each and every volunteer who took part as well as everyone who sponsored them in their events, all of which helped to raise an amazing £6,720.25 for this very worthy local charity.”

Eileen went on to say, “We would particularly like to thank Axiom Housing Association for getting involved and helping to raise over £1,600. In addition to the skydives that two members of staff took part in, dozens of individual sheltered accommodation schemes raised money by having coffee mornings, quizzes, and the like—it shows great community spirit to know that elderly people were raising money for their counterparts”.

David Bache, Chief Executive of Age UK Peterborough, said “We are so delighted with this excellent achievement by Eileen and the fabulous volunteers. This is the largest amount we have ever raised in one campaign so my sincere thanks go to Eileen Le Voi, Axiom Housing Association and all the wonderful volunteers who make such a difference to the work we do to help and support older people in Peterborough. Over the past few years, Eileen and Safe Local Trades have helped raise over £25,000—no other local company has ever raised this amount for our charity and we are enormously grateful.” 

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