Hospice’s £20k gift from food shoppers
CUSTOMERS USING AN ONLINE FOOD SHOP DONATED THE CASH INSTEAD OF RECEIVING A FREE GIFT WHEN PLACING THEIR ORDERS
A HEALTH food firm from Rugeley has donated more than £20,000 to St Giles Hospice thanks to the generosity of its customers.
Zipvit has donated £20,751 to the Whittington hospice, which helps patients and their families living with a terminal illness.
The firm raised the money through donations made by customers who ordered health foods, vitamins and supplements online using the company’s website over the past year. Online shoppers who spend more than £35 are given the choice between selecting a free gift for themselves or giving a donation to charity.
Sarah Dinshaw, operations manager at Zipvit, in Wheelhouse Road, in Rugeley, said: “We are thrilled to have been able to raise these funds for such an important local cause in the last 12 months.
“This money helps to fund the hospice’s vital work supporting local patients and their families and the total raised is a testament to the generosity of our amazing customers who have continued to support us and make donations to St Giles Hospice in a year when times have been very hard for everyone.
“I would like to thank our customers for selecting the charitable donation as their gift when shopping with Zipvit.”
St Giles Hospice’s head of fundraising, Chloe Herbert, said that the hospice was extremely grateful for the donation.
She added: “We would like to say a huge thank-you to everyone at Zipvit and to all of the shoppers who so generously made a donation to St
Giles while they were buying from this fantastic local business. Their ongoing support makes a big difference to the services we can provide for our patients and their families and is so important in raising public awareness of the work that we do.
“Corporate support from companies like Zipvit is vital to us as it costs more than £10 million a year to provide our services and only a third of this total comes from Government funding. It is especially important after a year when we have been forced to close our shops and cancel fundraising events due to the Covid19 pandemic.
“We’ve never needed our community more than we need it today and anything that local businesses can do to support our work is so important – their support really does go a long way. This is such a quick and simple way for Zipvit and its customers to support their local hospice but it really means the world to us, the patients we care for and their families. If any other businesses would be interested in helping St Giles then we’d be delighted to hear from them.”
For more information about St Giles Hospice, visit www.stgiles hospice.com
We’ve never needed our community more than we need it today.
St Giles Hospice
BORIS JOHNSON has insisted British farmers will benefit from the UK’S free trade deal with Australia, the first to be negotiated from scratch since Brexit.
The Prime Minister said it was “good news” for services and manufacturers in the UK, with British products such as cars, Scotch whisky and confectionary set to be cheaper to sell to Australia because of the tariff-free agreement.
Mr Johnson and his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, announced the agreement yesterday despite concerns from British farmers that they could be undercut by cut-price imports.
Industry leaders have also spoken out over possible compromises on food standards, as the UK has a ban on producing and importing hormone-treated beef, which is permitted in Australia.
Following the concerns from the farming sector, Downing Street said there will be a cap on tariff-free imports for 15 years, with other “safeguards” expected to be brought in to protect British farmers.
Mr Johnson said the trade agreement will adhere to the “strongest possible” animal welfare standards as he pledged the deal will be good for UK farmers.