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- London Plant Region -
Associates involvement with the Employees Charity Fund
Last updated: 01 July 2007
2006
The London Plant Employees Charities Fund.
Maureen Germaney and Tony Kennard are on the committee of the
London Employees Charity Fund
and have helped identify some deserving causes in the area.
Tony secured a donation of £1,000 from the fund for the Pitsea based Essex Horse & Pony Protection Society, for a new PC and warm clothing for their volunteers.
The photo shows Tony Kennard presenting the cheque to Sue Allery with Tia, an eleven-year-old mare that had been rescued by the society.
A fence stake had impaled her.
After care and re-habilitation Tia is fully recovered.
She has been fostered out and has just returned to the Society after a successful year competing in cross country events.
Tia's story is a classic example of the Protection Society's work.
Glenwood School in Benfleet is another charity in the area benefiting from Maureen and Tony's research.
 The school is for young people between the ages of 3 and 19 years who have severe learning difficulties. The aim of the school is to develop each individual to their maximum potential. They asked if the Fund could help them get an Interactive White Board.
Maureen arranged for this and she and P&G's Michelle Cleverdon visited the school. Maureen reports: "There was a happy caring atmosphere throughout the school and it gave us great pleasure to watch the children using the Interactive White Board the Employese Charity Fund had donated."
Tony recently arranged for an ECF Donation to the Sugarloaf Riding for the Disabled Group.
The Group provides riding lessons for disabled children and adults. They currently have about 36 riders, mainly children, who are trained by qualified instructors. The group has eight volunteers who give their time twice a week to support and maintain the training sessions.
The group relies entirely on donations to pay for the running costs which includes hire of horses & facilities, and stabling for their own horse Chaffie.
Chaffie is a nine year old mare who has had a problem with her old saddle which was causing problems to her back. After a saddler had examined her it was decided that she needed a new saddle to correct the problem.
Following a visit to the group by Tony Kennard the London Plant P&G ECF committee agreed to donate £500 towards the purchase of a new saddle.
Chaffie now has her new saddle and looked splendid in the photographs taken when the cheque was presented.
2007
The London Plant Employees Charities Fund.
Maureen Germaney and Tony Kennard are on the committee of the London Employees Charity Fund and have helped identify deserving causes in the area and that have enhanced the Company's reputation locally.
On the 4th July Tony Kennard and George Mann visited the Orsett Playgroup to present a cheque for £400 from the ECF.
George had passed on to Tony the original request for funds to purchase items from the Jolly Phonics educational series for young children and some tables and chairs. The presentation was made to Debbie Saville, the playgroup manager, who has been involved for the past 13 years. Debbie informed us that the playgroup had received an overall good and one outstanding at the Ofsted inspection in May. As Tony remarked "I am sure that the items above will help the playgroup to continue to achieve excellent results at future Ofsted inspections".
The photo shows Tony and George presenting the cheque to Debbie Saville and Tracy - the manager and deputy manager.
The local paper
reports the
Playgroup's thanks
to the
P&G Fund
for the gift.
Mike Clements, another London Associate and member of the Volunteer Team also approached Maureen and Tony a few months ago for help for The Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary which is always needing to raise funds for its work.
After talking to Maureen, Mike went to visit them and was given a tour of the premises by Sue the manager of the site. They wanted to purchase a de-dunger for £1,500 - a device that is driven into the fields and paddocks and, working like a vacuum cleaner, clears the field of horse droppings.
Apparently because the droppings harbour worms and other nasties which can be passed on to the horses the fields have to be kept clear and currently this is done manually with bucket and spade. This is very time consuming and an automatic device would free up time for their core activity.
On reporting this request back to the Fund Committee the money was made
available and in July Mike presented the cheque to Vicky Thuroughgood,
the yard manager.
The photograph shows him handing over the cheque to Vicky with one of the rescue horses nosing in.
Behind them is the machine that they plan to buy. It was in the yard on hire for a period prior to purchase.
A surprising double rescue at the sanctuary!
A recently rescued mare produced an unexpected foal.
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