Kettering firm's August fun raises £2,000 for charity

A Kettering firm’s August fun raised £2,000 for Irthlingborough charity Chelsea’s Angels, which helps children diagnosed with neuroblastoma and other cancers.

Swanton Care & Community Limited in Headlands held a fun day on August 20 at one of their homes in Kettering.

They had a large raffle, cake sale, cake auction, bouncy castle, ‘how many sweets in the jar’ game, guess the name of the teddy, piñatas, hot dogs, face painting and confetti cannons.

Throughout all of August they did various different things each week to help raise money such as a fancy dress week, fun hair week and walk a mile a day week, topped off with the fun day.

Swanton and Courtyard Care chief executive officer Andrew Dalton said: “As an organisation that is dedicated to supporting hundreds of children and young people across the UK, we are proud to support vital local charities such as Chelsea’s Angels. It’s such an inspiring charity and one that does so much good for children at a tough moment in their lives.

“The Courtyard Care team have had a huge amount of fun raising these funds throughout August – the ‘highlight’ of which was probably the fun hair week, if you’ll excuse the pun!”

Emma and Michelle from Chelsea’s Angels said: “We are so grateful that an amazing £2,000 has been raised in such a short amount of time – it's fabulous.

"With the donation we can put together 15 happiness boxes which will help us so much. We're putting together 17 at the moment.

"It's great when local businesses, groups and communities come together to support a local charity. Together amazing things can happen.”

And Eddie Philips from the RAOB said: “On behalf of the local buffalos we would like to present a cheque for £500 to Swanton for their fundraising efforts for Chelsea’s Angels, a worthy local cause.”

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