EG continues to applaud the support shown by the industry during the Covid-19 crisis.
Arch Company
A relief organisation seeking emergency warehouses and storage space for charities and food banks has made its first connection.
After seeing an article on Relief Aid Logistics in EG last week, Arch Company became the first landlord to make its empty warehouse space available. It has donated two free units in Deptford to Fareshare.
The space will provide the food bank charity with extra food storage capacity as it supports the elderly and vulnerable isolated at home. Arch Company is continuing to work with Fareshare to explore making other units available to the charity.
Arch Company managing director Adam Dakin said: “We are delighted to help the community effort against Coronavirus in whatever small way we can. If other charities or community organisations could use one of our unoccupied arches to help with the current crisis, they should get in touch and we will see if we can help”.
Relief Aid Logistics is still looking for additional sites in; Belfast BT36, Brighton BN2, Edinburgh EH6, Ipswich IP3 and Manchester M11. If you can provide empty industrial space, please e-mail: george.cook@reliefaidlogistics.org
Colliers International
Colliers International Bristol has donated £5,000 to Fareshare South West, the benefiting charity of the firm’s annual TRYathlon. Due to this year’s event being cancelled, Colliers gifted the targeted fundraising total to support the food distribution charity as it supports those in need through the pandemic.
Cadogan Group
Cadogan Group has partnered with the Kensington & Chelsea Foundation and pledged £50,000 to its Covid-19 appeal. Together with matched pledges from Rausing Trust and Rockspring Charitable Trust, the appeal has secured £150,000 of funding. The money will enable the community-based enterprise, which funds local projects in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, to support Age UK’s work to deliver care packages to elderly and vulnerable residents on a weekly basis throughout the pandemic. Click here to donate >>
Gradfeed
Gradfeed, an online career platform for students in the real estate industry, has opened up its site for free to professionals in the industry who have found themselves suddenly out of work. As well as making available current job opportunities, the site provides professional careers advice to users and free advertising to employers. For more information e-mail: hello@gradfeed.com
Norfolk Resilience Forum
The Norfolk Resilience Forum has launched an online stock inventory locator to help secure the supply of personal protective equipment for frontline care workers and vital services operatives. It is asking businesses across Norfolk to donate any spare stock of masks, disposable gloves, aprons, goggles, overshoes and hand sanitising gel; as well as seeking companies with resources that could help to create supply lines. Get involved >>
Harris Associates
Harris Associates is asking the property industry to make a pledge to its Property Gives Back Fund for the NHS. The go-fund-me page is to help all NHS frontline workers risking their lives to help flight Covid-19. The money raised will support Barts charity and other related charities. Click here to donate >>
JustPark
Car-parking app and website JustPark is helping to supply free car parking space to NHS staff and critical care workers during the Coronavirus epidemic. Owners of empty parking spaces close to hospitals and healthcare centres can register them on the JustPark website to allow keyworkers to reserve and use the space.
Capital & Centric and Kamani Property
Capital & Centric and Kamani Property have set up a Covid-19 emergency supplies depot at their site in New Cross, Manchester. The currently unoccupied Northern Quarter building has been opened to regional businesses such as Vimto, Warburtons and Hut Group, which are supporting Greater Manchester’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged people.
The project is part of the Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity appeal to help the city’s homeless. Chaired by Tim Heatley, co-founder of Capital & Centric, the charity is working with hotels across the city-region to provide temporary shared accommodation to vulnerable people living on the streets who have nowhere to self-isolate.
Click here for details of how businesses can donate supplies to the appeal >>
Are you or your business helping others during the coronavirus pandemic? Let us know by e-mailing sharon.harnett@egi.co.uk
