Bingo staff complete miles for smiles

Staff from Rutherglen’s Mecca Bingo will be donning trainers and dusting off bikes as part of a new initiative marking the business’five year partnership with the CarersTrust.

The partnership between Carers Trust and the Rank Group, which owns Mecca Bingo, began in February 2014. To celebrate this milestone, the Miles for Carers’ Smiles campaign aims to clock up 10,000 miles of movement while raising money for carers along the way.

This year, Carers Trust will hit the major milestone of having helped 10,000 carers in the UK including those in Rutherglen.

The charity works to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health problems.

Wendy Buchan, general manager at Mecca Rutherglen, said:“We’re passionate about our fundraising activities that support Rutherglen carers and want to celebrate Carers Trust helping 10,000 carers by raising money in a more creative way. Miles for Carers’ Smiles does just that and by logging a mile for every single one of them, we want to show that we care and that we want to keep making a difference to their lives.

“We’re calling on our team members alongside their families and friends in Rutherglen, to walk, run, swim, cycle, row, skate or Zumba their way to clocking up some miles so we can reach a collective 10,000 in just five weeks.”

Miles can be entered and tracked manually or people can connect their tracking device to their profile. Friends and family can also log on to sponsor them by the mile and all money raised will go towards each club’s fundraising target.