VITAL projects run by a community group to help vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the Malmesbury area have received a much needed cash boost from a regional building firm.
HEALS has been gifted £1,000 from Persimmon Homes Wessex to continue important work that includes practical help for disabled people, funding learning disability assessments and running the local branch of the credit union.
The donation is part of the house-builder’s Community Champions scheme, which will see £24,000 given out to local good causes over the next 12 months throughout the region.
The company matched £1,000 that HEALS has raised recently following a number of initiatives.
Gavin Grant, from HEALS, which is based in Malmesbury High Street, said: “We are delighted that Persimmon Homes Wessex chose to support us.
“We are proud of the important, practical work our volunteers do in connecting vulnerable people with the appropriate statutory services they need, and providing the practical help and advice that improves vulnerable people's lives.
“There is ever increasing demands on us and this donation will really help.
“We are hugely grateful to Persimmon for their generosity.”
Pauline Fletcher, sales and marketing director for Persimmon Homes Wessex, said the community initiative was a way of supporting people across every city, town and village where the company works.
She said: “We are confident this funding will make a huge difference to HEALS of Malmesbury.
“The quality of the submissions we received were very high, so choosing the good causes to support was much harder than we expected.
“We now want to hear from more groups and charities as look to allocate more funding over the next month.
“All we ask is that the group or charity has already worked hard to raise money themselves, and we will then match this effort with funding of up to £1,000.”
Groups are chosen every month to receive a match-funding donation with local community groups being encouraged to apply by completing an online form at www.persimmonhomes.com/charity
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