12 April 2010
Waitrose Donates to The Royal Star & Garter Charity
The Royal Star & Garter Homes Charity was delighted to welcome Michael Jacobs and Nicola Alloway from Waitrose's East Sheen supermarket to its Richmond Home. Mr Jacobs, the Store Manager, and Ms Alloway presented a cheque for £500 to the Charity's Director of Fundraising & PR, Patsy Willis, and some of the home's disabled ex-Service men and women residents.
The money was raised through the store's Community Matters initiative under which each branch has £1000 per month to share out between local good causes. Customers vote for their preferred cause using a green token each time they shop, and the money each cause is given is directly proportional to the tokens they receive.
Receiving the cheque, Patsy Willis said: "We very much appreciate being the beneficiaries of this unique scheme. Not only do our residents set great store by this contribution towards the outings and activities that give them so much pleasure, but it is also a welcome sign that the local community remembers them and values their Service to the country. We are very grateful to Waitrose staff and customers for their support."
About The Royal Star & Garter Homes Charity - founded in 1916.
The Royal Star & Garter Charity has been caring for disabled ex-Service personnel since 1916. The Charity offers its residents the best in nursing and therapeutic care, as well as a wide variety of leisure activities both internally and at outside venues. Anyone who is physically disabled or incapacitated and has served in Her Majesty's Forces is eligible to apply for a place at a Royal Star & Garter Home, as well as the widows, spouses and partners of ex-Service people.
The Royal Star & Garter Charity is in the process of building new homes around the country to provide nursing care for disabled ex-Service people in the best modern surroundings and, for the first time, will include specialist dementia care facilities to address this growing need. The first of these prestigious new homes opened in Solihull, the West Midlands, in the summer of 2008 and has already established itself as a centre of excellence. The state-of-the-art facilities at Solihull, which will be emulated in the other new homes, will also enable the Charity to offer interim care for young disabled Service personnel.
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PICTURE SHOWS:
Back, L-R: Nicola Alloway and Michael Jacobs from Waitrose, The Royal Star & Garter's Director of Fundraising Patsy Willis, and volunteer Betty Johnson.
Front, L-R: Royal Star & Garter residents Peter Devenish, Shirley Macalpine-Downie, Dick Martin, and Charles Blower.