Travis Perkins and Benchmarx team up for charity

Builders merchant Travis Perkins and its specialist kitchens and joinery arm Benchmarx have chosen Macmillan Cancer Support as their charity partner for the next three years.

This is the first time that two businesses under the Travis Perkins Plc brand have joined forces to support a charity partner together in this way; the aim is to raise £3m for the charity.

To launch the partnership, each of the 600 Travis Perkins and 110 Benchmarx sites across the UK and its head office will commit to raising enough money to ‘power an hour’ of vital Macmillan support for people affected by cancer.

Throughout the partnership Macmillan will work with both brands on a series of targeted fundraising and cancer information campaigns for employees, customers and suppliers. Benchmarx and Travis Perkins are also helping the charity access a hard to reach audience, by providing cancer information and support via their communication channels to their employees, the majority of whom are male and would traditionally tend not to proactively seek information about cancer.

Andrew Harrison, TP divisional chief operating officer, said: “We are delighted to be working with Macmillan, and even more so to see two great Travis Perkins Plc businesses joining together for the first time in this way. We look forward to the next three years of partnership, and working hard building the foundations of great cancer support, together.”

Alix Wooding, Head of Corporate Partnerships at Macmillan said, “Macmillan is delighted to have been chosen as Travis Perkins and Benchmarx’ new charity partner, and we look forward to working together to raise awareness, as well as vital funds for people affected by cancer. We want to ensure that no one has to face cancer alone, and without the support of partners like Benchmarx and Travis Perkins we simply couldn’t do this.”