Rugby team converts cash for rescuers

KIND-HEARTED teens who spent a day packing bags for shoppers at Sainsbury’s have donated half the money they raised to the store’s chosen charity.

Around 16 junior players for Hinckley Rugby Club’s Under 15s team worked alongside checkout staff at the supermarket in The Crescent helping customers to bag-up their purchases in return for donations.

At the end of their sixhour shift, they had amassed a whopping £916 to help towards team kits and a planned 2018 tour.

But instead of pocketing the lot, they kept £500 and donated the remaining £416 to the store’s chosen charity, the Leicestershire search and rescue team, LeicSAR.

Team fundraiser Nichola Devey, who co-ordinated the bag-packing session, said: “It was absolutely the right thing to do.

“We wouldn’t have been able to raise the money without Sainsbury’s support and LeicSAR do really good work.”

The money kept by the club will help to subsidise a planned tour of Exeter next April which will include taking the junior players to watch a professional game.

Sainsbury’s PR ambassador Nicky Blower praised the team’s generosity.

She said: “I think it’s a fab- ulous donation. We are very grateful.”

LeicSAR member Ian Silver said: “All of us at Leicestershire Search and Rescue would like to thank Hinckley Rugby Club’s Under 15 team for this fantastic donation.

“It’s great that our work in helping to return missing persons to safety is appreciated”.

Hinckley Rugby Club Under 15 team players took part in a fundraising bag-packing day at Sainsbury’s at The Crescent in Hinckley which generated more than £900 that was shared between the team and the store’s chosen charity Leicestershire Search and...

Hinckley Rugby Club Under 15 team player Joshua Babbs joined Sainsbury’s checkout operator Sally-Ann Corrigan

Hinckley Rugby Club Under 15 team player Ben Deacon joined Sainsbury’s checkout operator Andrea Benton