Securistyle
Sponsors Fire Safety lnitiative
Securistyle,
the UK window hardware manufacturer, sponsored the launch of a community
fire safety initiative in Wales. Firebrake Wales is a charitable organisation
working in partnership with the Welsh Assembly and the three Welsh Fire
Services
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K2
Glass Ltd get Wet and Wild
Fun
and frolics amidst the soaring summer temperatures were enjoyed by staff
at K2 Glass Ltd, when they took part
in a charity ‘It’s a Knock Out’ tournament.
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Synseal
Customer Hits Hole-in-One for Charity
Steve
Judge, partner of Synseal fabricator
Shield Conservatories Ltd, won a car with three friends after taking part
in Oldham Athletic Golf Classic tournament
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WHS
Halo Helps David See the Light
A
three-year-old boy with a rare genetic condition that means just minutes
in the sunshine could leave him with skin cancer, is enjoying a new lease
of life thanks to WHS Halo.
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'It's
All For Charidee Mate' as Window Boss Bids for Glassex Stand
When
one of the lots for auction at a recent charity event turned out to be
a 32m2 stand at industry exhibition Glassex, it was too good an opportunity
to miss for industry veteran and window company boss Mike Crewdson
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Interbuild
Adopts CRASH as Official Charity
CRASH,
the construction and property industry charity for the homeless, has been
adopted as the official charity of Interbuild
2004.
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3rd
Glazing Industry Fun Charity Golf Day
The
third annual Glazing Industry Fun Charity Golf
Day was held at Shirley Golf Club in the West Midlands on July
29th.
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Tandem
Skydive by Optima Employees Raises £1,000 for National Asthma Campaign
Two
employees from High Wycombe-based Optima Architectural
Glass have raised £1,000 for the National Asthma Campaign
following a 12,000 ft free-fall tandem skydive
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Eurocell
and Crystal Celebrate Romanian Success
When the opportunity arose recently for Crystal
Windows to support the Convoy 2000 charity Tony Morris and
Steve Cooper jumped at the chance.
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Burles
goes Flat Out
What
better way for a group of companies to raise money for charity, than by
'pouring' its managing director, into a pair of oh, so stylish jodhpurs
and hoisting him on to a horse?
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Windowmaker
Enters The Dragon Race for Charity
Windowmaker
Software
Staff recently participated in the Dragon Boat Race for Charity.
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Windowman
Makes Dreams Come True for Youngsters
Deserving children from the North East
enjoyed a VIP football day out thanks to the generosity of one of Profile
22's major commercial fabricators, Windowman
UK Ltd
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Profile
22 'Plods' for Charity
Twenty one Profile
22 employees recently raised more than £1,500 in aid
of Cancer Research UK in a five kilometre Race for Life round Telford
Town Park.
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Veka
Girls Raise Blood Pressures and £££'s for Charity
Although
it originally began as a joke, the cheque handed over to charity by ladies
working for systems manufacturer Veka
for sales of their saucy calendar was very serious indeed!
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Mark
Warren Jumps off Building for Charity
Mark Warren, who is not generally known for his athleticism, has bravely
agreed to take the plunge over the side of one of Hanley's tallest buildings
(along with three of his staff) and abseil down to the ground to help
raise money for the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
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Lister
Trade Frames Raises Money for Comic Relief
Listers
recently raised over £1250.00 for Comic Relief.
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Camden
Group Donate £5,000 to Cancer Care
Each
year almost 20,000 people in lreland develop cancer and that number is
set to increase in the years ahead as our population ages.
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Competitor
Support Benefits National Charity
Mutual
respect between competing manufacturers has resulted in support for a
national charity appeal.
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Sash's
Christmas Festivities Aid Local Children's Hospice
Staff
of the Barnsley based window, door and conservatory manufacturer Sash
UK turned Santa this Christmas by raising £2,640 in support of the
Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice Appeal
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Eurocell
Building Plastics Donates £500 to St Luke's School
Eurocell Building Plastics South Eastern Division has recently donated
£500 to St Luke's School in Redbourn Hertfordshire.
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Whiteline
Windows rebrands and recycles, benefiting underprivileged children around
the world
The
Whiteline Group, the South East's specialist trade fabricator of PVC-U
windows and doors, announces the rebranding of its Whiteline and Framelink
trade brands and a local charity benefit.
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'Pounds
from Heaven' for Children's Hospice
It was literally a case of 'pounds from heaven' for a Shropshire-based
children's hospice following a fund-raising freefall by two adventurous
Profile 22 ladies.
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PREMIER'S
PACT BENEFITS CHILDREN'S CHARITY
Premier Profiles, extruder of PVCu window, door and
cellular foam profile, has donated the proceeds of its corporate Golf
Day - over £7,430 - to the charity PACT (Parents' Association of
Children with Tumours and Leukaemia), based at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
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Loyalty
to Community Relations
Bolton based, industrial company The Burnden
Group plc, provided its support at two recent fund raising events.
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Synseal
Raises £15,000 for Children in Need
Synseal
Extrusions Ltd along with its customers across the UK have raised £15,000
for this year's the Children in Need appeal.
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Sapphire
Windows' MD Loses Hair to Gain Cash for Local Hospice
Dave Darby, managing director of Veka
fabricator & installer Sapphire Windows of Newton Abbot in Devon,
has raised £1,150 for worthy causes after having his haircut of
36 years shaved off, cheered on by his family, friends and colleagues.
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Kestel
Supports Local Charity
Congleton-based Kestrel Building Products
is the latest local company to lend its support to the Donna Louise Trust,
the charity currently building a children's hospice at Trentham. near
Stoke-on-Trent.
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Vicker
helps Pudsey
Adrian Vicker, sales director at hardware manufacturer Roto Frank, will
be taking his motorbike on an epic three-day journey from toe to tip of
Great Britain to raise funds for the BBC's Children In Need appeal.
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Winning
is Fun for IFI Lot
Combining a charitable fund raising day for the local NSPCC branch with
the presentation of prizes to the winners of the recent Yale and IFI G2000
sales promotion proved to be a resounding success.
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Local
Manufacturer in Trekking Odyssey
Macclesfield
based HW Plastics is sponsoring its intrepid Head of Marketing, Peter
Hayes, to walk over one hundred and fifty kilometres to raise money for
SCOPE (formerly the Spastic Society) this month.
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Deceuninck
Raises Money for the British Heart Foundation
Pouring rain did nothing to dampen the energetic spirits of a 13 (unlucky
for some... as you will find out) strong Deceuninck team in their endeavour
to complete the 68 mile Birmingham to Oxford bike ride. Deceuninck's senior
management team - Gary Morton, Jon Skinner and Peter Watts - were joined
by as assortment of employees, friends, colleagues and general hangers
on, collectively raising approximately £6000 in aid of the British
Heart Foundation.
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Leaping
for Charity
Who is the more intrepid of the sexes? Well, as these two brave ladies
proved with their 16,000 foot charity tandem freefall, the fairer sex
it would seem. Teresa Colbourne-White and Anna Berwick joined forces in
a mega parachute jump to raise over £2,500 for HOPE HOUSE, a hospice
for terminally ill children.
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Shepley’s
Own Skydive for Charity
On 26th July, Andy McIntyre, one of Shepley’s customer service manager,
took part in a charity skydive. Along with 15 other participants from
across the window industry, Andy descended from a height of 16,000 feet
in a free-fall tandem skydive.
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GOSH-
A Parachute Jump for Charity!
Debbie Lake, dearly beloved wife of Nick Lake, Communications Manager
at Panels Plus, jumped (or was she pushed) from a perfectly working plane
in a tandem skydive, on Saturday 3rd August at Headcorn Aerodrome near
Maidstone, Kent.
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LMC
Group Raises £500 for Children with Leukaemia
Ickenham based LMC Group put down their hard hats and Wellington boots
for a day to raise £500 for the Charity Children with Leukaemia
by staging a five-a-side football tournament and fun day for staff, clients
and other construction companies.
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Fun
Charity Golf Day
Last Summer's very successful Fun Charity Golf Day instigated by regional
exhibitions organiser Mike Gray, Fenestra Journal's Norman Setra, and
Dave 'Brocko' Broxton of Glass Age, was followed up on the 7th August
this year with an even more successful event.
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A
Charity Convoy
Peerless Windows, a Synseal Installer recently flew out to Romania to
aid a charity project, 'Convoy 2000' involving the refurbishment of a
home for mentally handicapped children aged between seven and sixteen.
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Hallmark
Customer Kate Gets Physical For Worthy Causes
Hallmark Panels installer Summerland embarked on a unique way of advertising
around its base in Yeovil. Those up early enough saw Kate Hill, one of
the partners in the company, pounding the local streets in a Summerland
t-shirt in training for this year's London Marathon.
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OVER
3000 METRES HIGH AND NOT A PLASTIC WINDOW IN SIGHT
PR professional Kate Ashley-Norman of The Bath Plug & Tap Publicity
Company thought that climbing 3210 metres to the top of Poon Hill in Nepal
was far away enough from plastic windows, until she found out that one
of her co-trekkers was the son of a woman who worked for Deceuninck fabricator
DWL Home Improvements
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CHARITY
TAKES SIEGENIA TO 13,000 FEET
Siegenia-Frank (UK) Ltd, leading manufacturer of window and door hardware,
has reached new heights through a recent sponsorship initiative.
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