Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster and owner of the Grosvenor Group, has donated an extra £10m to the UK’s Covid-19 relief effort.
The donation is in addition to the initial gift of £2.5m made by the group in March and awarded to charities providing essential food to vulnerable families struggling to feed their children.
The latest donation will support the NHS, through NHS Charities Together, to provide respite, rehabilitation and mental health assistance to NHS staff and their families.
HTA and HOK in drive to boost PPE
HTA Design and HOK’s London Studio are leading an initiative with UK architecture firms to produce PPE for NHS workers.
Supported by Shield Project, the Industry Prints initiative is a co-ordinated effort to manufacture face visors using a 3D printing pattern developed to exact NHS specifications.
The open-source design can be downloaded by any architecture and design community to help provide visors to the NHS hospitals most in need of this vital equipment.
The Industry Prints project is working with Contractors Appeal and NEAD, the National 3D Printing Society, MedSupplyDriveUK, Makerversity, Helpful Engineering, Women in 3D Printing, Greystar’s Do Some Good campaign and the RIBA.
Down the hatch!
Greenland has given beer brewed on site at Ram Quarter to its residents to help buoy spirits during the lockdown.
The site in Wandsworth, SW18, is the former home of Young’s Brewery, where beer has been brewed for nearly 500 years. The property developer has maintained a nanobrewery on site, run by brewer John Hatch, throughout the redevelopment. This has ensured that Ram Quarter’s record as the longest continuously brewing site in the UK is kept alive.
Residents were very happy with the gesture, expressing their gratitude with comments including: “loved the beer”, “absolutely delicious” and “would like more than three litres next time”.
Barwood goes the extra mile to help tackle exclusion
Staff at Barwood Capital have walked, run and cycled to raise £3,285 for Northampton Hope Centre, a charity helping to improve the lives of individuals experiencing disadvantage and exclusion.
The goal of the challenge was to collectively cover the 590-mile distance from its southern site in Selsey, West Sussex, to its northern site in Dundee. The team exceeded the set distance and travelled more than 1,000 miles.
During the Covid-19 crisis, the Northampton Hope Centre has needed additional donations of food, toiletries and bedding for its day centres and food club.
Mentoring lifeline for Covid-19-affected firms
The industry’s great and good have banded together to offer free CEO mentoring, coaching and advice for companies in the UK and Ireland affected by the Covid-19 crisis. The All Together mentoring initiative was spearheaded by Jamie Mitchell, chairman of Rare Restaurants and former MD of Innocent Drinks, and has attracted a team of more than 100 cross-sector CEOs, chairpeople and investors.
For details, visit www.alltogether.company
Henderson and Kirby Diamond to the rescue
Landlord Henderson Global Investors and commercial property consultancy Kirkby Diamond helped to provide Luton District Council with a base for an emergency food bank within 72 hours of being approached. The facility will provide assistance to vulnerable people during the coronavirus crisis.
Savills earmarks £800,000 for wide range of charities
Savills will donate £800,000 from its charitable fund to selected charities across the UK. The recipients will include charities directly relating to: NHS projects for both front-line workers and those impacted by the virus; care workers and care for the elderly; homelessness and food banks for vulnerable people; refuge and women’s aid; mental health; and action for children.
Meals From Marlow nets Shanly Foundation cash
The first donation of the Shanly Foundation’s £150,000 fund to help local Covid-19 relief efforts has been awarded to Meals From Marlow. The project, launched by celebrity chef Tom Kerridge, has received a donation of £25,000 to help provide more than 500 free meals a day to healthcare and front-line community workers and vulnerable groups.
For details, visit www.shanlyfoundation.com
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