Big-hearted staff chose their charity
THE British Heart Foundation has been announced as Stockportbased ECTA Training’s charity of the year.
The firm, based in Hadfield House, Gordon Street, has pledged to raise more than £2,000 for the charity from July 2017 to July 2018.
ECTA smart meter assessor and trainer Mark Jarman chose The British Heart Foundation (BHF), as his father lost his life to heart failure when Mark was just eight years old.
Mark said: “If I can help prevent that happening to another eight-year-old I will.”
Business owner Dave Berry also has a close connection to the cause, as his father was one of 15 brothers and sisters who all lost their lives prematurely to heart disease.
The funds raised by ECTA Training will help support the BHF’s research.
The partnership launches this month with a summer party for its staff and trainees. For August it will be dress down football shirt day for the start of the new Premier League season and September will see employees compete to be the ‘step-a-thon’ king or queen.
They will also be supporting some of the BHF’s key campaigns such as ‘Bag it. Beat it’ in September.
Katherine Stybelski, fundraising manager at the BHF, added: “We are thrilled to have been chosen as ECTA Training’s charity of the year.
“The staff will be raising funds to help the BHF realise its vision of a world where people don’t die prematurely or suffer from CVD.”