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Travis Perkins, the UK builders’ merchant, is celebrating the halfway point of its three-year charity partnership with Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Scotland, with customers and colleagues across the business raising over £300,000.
The partnership, voted for by colleagues, is designed to raise vital funds for care, support and ground-breaking research, while also raising awareness of dementia amongst Travis Perkins’ colleagues, customers, and local communities. With one in three people born in the UK today expected to develop dementia, the impact of this work is already being felt across the business and beyond.
Richard Lavin, managing director at Travis Perkins, said: “We’re incredibly proud of the way our colleagues and customers have embraced this partnership. Dementia touches so many lives, and the passion, creativity and commitment we’ve seen right across our business from colleagues has been inspiring. To have raised over £300,000 already is an amazing achievement, but this is just the start, together we want to make an even bigger difference in the next 18 months.”
As the partnership with Travis Perkins moves into its second half, priorities include expanding fundraising activity, launching the Dementia Friends initiative within Travis Perkins, and raising further awareness of Alzheimer Scotland’s Stop the Cuts campaign across Scottish stores.
