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STAFF BATTLE HEAT AND DEMANDING HALF MARATHON COURSE FOR CHARITY
Added: (Fri Jun 20 2008)
STAFF BATTLE HEAT AND DEMANDING HALF MARATHON COURSE FOR CHARITY
Eight employees of Environmental Essentials are nursing aches and pains after competing in the gruelling Potters Arf Marathon.
The Stoke-on-Trent asbestos management specialists entered two relay teams into the 13mile race on the city’s streets, and all completed their sections – despite the 23 degree heat and punishing hills.
All the cash raised will be donated to the firm’s chosen charity Breath of Life, which helps people with lung and chest problems.
And the company is now planning a series of fundraising events to help the charity further. For example, they are organising a sportsman’s dinner for the Autumn and a charity cricket match for the start of the 2009 season next April.
Director Richard Powner, who ran 3.5 miles of the June 8th race, said: “There is a synergy between our work and Breath of Life’s, because we are both concerned with breathing problems.
“The cash raised at the Potters Arf should help them buy equipment and fund research, and our forthcoming events will go some way to refurbishing a cystic fibrosis unit at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.”
The North Staffordshire charity has embarked on a £250,000 project to refurbish the existing CF unit and turn it into a regional centre of excellence.
It will provide a number of individual units to keep patients in isolation – they are very contagious to other CF sufferers – and make their hospital stays as comfortable as possible.
Appeals Co-ordinator John Belfield said: “The generosity of Environmental Essentials and a number of other local companies has brought our new CF unit one step closer.”
Further details of Environmental Essentials’ work can be found on the company website: www.environmentalessentials.co.uk.
For more information, contact Richard Swancott at MarketCare PR on 01782 416371/07880 733138, or email richardswancott@marketcare.net.
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