Five good reasons to celebrate Trust’s 5th anniversary

Five key local charities are £1,000 better off, thanks to Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust’s 5th anniversary celebrations. Florence Nightingale Hospice Trust, Stoke Mandeville Hospital Neonatal Unit, Young Carers Bucks, Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust and Aylesbury Homeless Action Group were each presented with their donation at a special reception at Fairfax House.

As part of a programme of 5th anniversary events, ’5-for-5′ invited employees at the Trust to nominate local charities that they thought should benefit from one of 5 donations of £1,000 each. The team came up with an amazing 22 worthy causes, and so a round of voting was held to carry out the difficult task of reducing the list to just five.

The employees who had originally nominated each of the final selection were called on to make the presentations, and were able to find out more about how the money would help each organisation.

Matthew Applegate, Chief Executive of the Trust, said ‘We decided that we wanted to give gifts for our anniversary, to organisations that, like the Trust, are committed to strengthening communities and improving lives.

‘The team come up with a fantastic list of local charities doing invaluable work. What is more, many of the employees nominated organisations that they had first hand experience of, either at a volunteer, or because they had benefitted from the support or service that charity provides, and knew personally how important their work is’.

Pictured are:

Back row, l-r Lindsey Fealey, FN Hospice Charity; Lynne de Looze, Young Carers; Rachel Hunter, Chiltern Air Ambulance; Karen Warner and Sylvia Brown, AHAG.

Front row, l-r: Trust employees Rick Smith, Julie O’Rourke, Kim Crook, Liz Hardy and Richard Midgley