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JAMES HALL & CO
James Hall reaches £500,000 milestone for cancer charity Fundraising initiatives include fancy dress competitions, cake stalls, and raffles.
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ames Hall & Co, Spar UK’s primary wholesaler and distributor for northern England, has reached the £500,000 fundraising milestone for end of life care charity Marie Curie. The highest fundraising independent store is Nigel and Sue Masters’ store in Oswaldtwistle, which has raised £5,272 since Spar partnered with Marie Curie in March 2017. Nigel said: “We have a first-class community Spar store here in Oswaldtwistle and our staff wholeheartedly get behind fundraising opportunities. Local
residents and businesses really appre- stalls through to second-hand book, ciate this, and I think it is why our cus- DVD and games sales, and raffles. Niels Dekkers, Retail Development tomers have supported Marie Curie so Director at James Hall & Co, said: “This generously.” Company-owned Spar stores that latest milestone, coming just 12 months have driven fundraising on the ground in after reaching the £400,000 mark, could communities include Sandringham Way, not have been achieved so quickly withWalton-le-Dale (£5,302), Hutton Way, out the kind-heartedness of our loyal Carlisle (£4,555), East Ayton, Scarbor- customers across the north of England, ough (£4,195), and Eston, Midcombined with the commitment dlesbrough (£2,780). and inventiveness of stores Fundraising initiatives and their fundraising iniThe highvaried from fancy dress tiatives. I would like to est fundraising independent store is competitions and cake congratulate the team at Nigel and Sue Masters’ Masters Oswaldtwistle store in Oswaldtwistle, for their brilliant fundwhich has raised raising work.” £5,272 Linda McCarten, Senior Healthcare Other stores Assistant at Marie that have driven Curie, added: “To fundraising include: Sandringham Way, Walhave the support ton-le-Dale (£5,302), Hutof Spar and ton Way, Carlisle (£4,555), James Hall & Co East Ayton, Scarborough (£4,195), and Eston, really is amazing, Middlesbrough and £500,000 is a (£2,780) brilliant total to have reached. This helps fund our critical work. I’m a regular at my local Spar store, and it has supported me through the pandemic too as a collection point for PPE, enabling me to carry on doing the work I love for FLOWERED UP: COLLEAGUES FROM SPAR MASTERS OSWALDTWISTLE PRESENT CHEQUE Marie Curie.”
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