Charity News
27 February 2018
B&M’s team of trekkers brave Mount Snowdon for local charity
15 B&M colleagues took on Wales' highest peak to raise money for St Kentigern Hospice.
19 January 2018
B&M Help Make a Difference to 399,419 Children with Mission Christmas
At Christmas B&M teamed up with an amazing children’s charity, Mission Christmas. Alongside radio stations across the country B&M colleagues and customers worked hard to ensure that every child woke up to a gift on Christmas morning!
06 December 2017
B&M helps Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice for ill babies and infants
B&M have made a massive £40,000 donation to Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice to support their sites in both Middlesbrough and Liverpool. The donation is able to help the hospices continue to provide palliative respite and end-of-life care for babies and infants aged from birth to five years. The hospice is designed to give the children a home away from home to make them feel comfortable so they are able to get the most out of their very special facilities.
06 December 2017
B&M helps grant a little boy’s ultimate wish
Last year B&M made the huge donation of £20,000 to Pride of the Isle to make sure they can continue to create special memories for terminally ill people and their families across South Yorkshire. Kasabian Newton-Smith had been in contact with the charity since September 2015 when he was nominated for a Pride of the Isle award.
06 December 2017
B&M’s donation to help the homeless in Manchester
Last Christmas B&M donated £20,000 to Mustard Tree, to help them continue to support the homeless in Manchester. Homelessness in the city is increasing so it is vital that projects are put in place to give those living on the streets the support they need, with the long-term aim of getting them employment and a house to live in.
06 December 2017
B&M donation helps local bereaved families
B&M have donated £20,000 to the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust (KBRT) so that they will be able to ease the financial difficulties bereaved families may face when repatriating the bodies of loved ones, who have died abroad in sudden or tragic circumstances, back to Ireland.
06 December 2017
B&M funds essential respite support for Dorset and Wiltshire children with life-limiting illnesses
B&M have donated £20,000 to Julia’s House which is enough to provide 333 respite sessions to parents with a seriously ill child, meaning they will be able to get the practical and emotional support they often need when caring for children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions.
06 December 2017
B&M boosts local hospital’s chances of buying Scotland’s first life-saving endoscope
Thanks to a donation of £20,000 from B&M, Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity are one step closer to purchasing the Neurosurgical HD Endoscope. The Endoscope will act as a critical surgical tool for young patients in life and death situations due to brain tumours or hydrocephalus. The only other children’s hospital in the United Kingdom to have this equipment is Great Ormond Street in London.