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JONES BUILDING CONTRACTORS, MILLFIELD PREP SCHOOL PARENTS & FRIENDS ASSOCIATION AND LLOYDS TSB RAISE OVER £6,000 FOR CHILDRENS HOSPICE SOUTH WEST
Yeovil based Jones Building Contractors together with Millfield Prep School Parents and Friends Association and Lloyds TSB have raised over £6000 for the Children’s Hospice South West. The money was raised through a Black Tie Sportsman’s Dinner arranged by Millfield Prep School Parents and Friends Association where Arsenal and England football player Tony Adams was the guest speaker. Jones Building Contractors sponsored the dinner and Lloyds TSB matched funded £1200 from the auction held on the evening.
Arnold Wills, Chairman of the Millfield Prep School Parents and Friends Association said, “The dinner was very well attended. We are extremely grateful to Jones Building Contractors for their generous sponsorship of the event and thrilled to be able donate such a wonderful amount to the Children’s Hospice South West.”
David Jones, Managing Director of Jones Building Contractors said, “I am always keen to get involved in the charity events held at Millfield as my children attend the school and because I am such a huge football fan. It was a superb evening and it is made all the more superb in that we were able to raise such an impressive amount for such a wonderful organisation as the Children’s Hospice South West.”
Mark Porter, Senior Manager for National Clubs & Charities Centre at Lloyds TSB said, “We are thrilled to support such a super charity as Children's Hospice South West. Our donation came from the Lloyds TSB Charitable Foundation Staff Matched Giving Scheme which is specifically for supporting charitable activities our staff are involved in. Steve Plant, who is the Treasurer of the Millfield Prep School Parents and Friends Association and helped to organise the event also works for Lloyds TSB and so this was the ideal charity event for us to support.”
Jane Powell, Community Fundraiser for Children’s Hospice South West said, “I would like to thank all the committee, parents, friends and generous sponsors of the event for making the evening such a great success. I know the evening was very entertaining and it was so wonderful that the dinner raised over £6000.00! Parents, sponsors and pupils came to visit Charlton Farm to see the vital work carried out by Children’s Hospice South West for children with life limiting conditions and their families. I am so grateful for the kindness, understanding and support of the Millfield School community towards Children’s Hospice South West.”
David Jones (Managing Director, DR Jones (Yeovil) Ltd), Mark Porter (Senior Manager, National Clubs & Charities Centre, Lloyds TSB) and Steve Plant (Treasurer, Millfield Prep School Parents and Friends Association and also works for Lloyds TSB) recently visited one of the hospices of the Children’s Hospice South West at Charlton Farm in Wraxhall near Bristol where they presented a cheque to Jane Powell (Community Fund Raiser, Children’s Hospice South West.
The hospice at Charlton Farm provides a secluded and beautiful setting in which families can take some time out and just enjoying spending time as a family. The Charlton Farm hospice is their second hospice which has been built to meet the demand for its unique and specialist services to children and families in the South West.
Some of the money raised at the Sportsman’s Dinner was donated to Sporting Chance, a charity set up by Tony Adams some years ago for sportsmen and women who needed help to overcome addictions to alcohol, drugs etc. |
