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Sewing for frontline medical staff

Helping Local Frontline Medical Staff

Tracey Porter, Account Handler at PSP Chippenham has been using her spare time during lockdown to help out local NHS staff by putting her sewing skills to good use.

Shoe bags for Hawthorn Medical Centre in Swindon, so that staff can protect their shoes from contaminating their homes when they return from shift.

Washbags for a community based project – NHS Staff Uniform Washing Bags Swindon, the project which has so far distributed nearly 2000 bags to hospital staff, district nurses and care homes in Swindon, so that they can safely bring their uniforms home to be washed.

Face Mask Extenders – These have been provided to her daughter and colleagues who work in a pharmaceutical company and need to wear face masks for such long hours and the elastic puts pressure on their ears, the extenders fit around the back of the head relieving the pressure.

Hearts – provided to the Brighter Futures Great Western Hospital Swindon, for ICU patients with Covid-19, one heart is retained by the patient and one is posted out to bereaved relatives

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PSP colleagues do extraordinary things for charity.

PSP colleagues do extraordinary things for charity.

Over the next 12 months a number of our PSP colleagues will be taking on extraordinary personal challenges for charity.

First up (and down) is Saltash Account Executive, Will Bailey who is taking part in a sky dive on 30 March to raise money for local hospice St Luke’s.

He will be followed by Newquay Director Martin Geen, who will be running the London Marathon on 28 April in aid of Children with Cancer UK

Later in the year on 31 August, it is the turn of our Health Insurance Adviser, Sarah Gillies, who is taking on the challenge of trekking a marathon through Salisbury taking in the sites of Old Sarum and Stonehenge for Alzheimer’s Society.

Then Jane Tutte – private clients account handler in Newquay will be once again walking 100km. This time along the Normandy Beaches between 2 and 6 October for The Soldiers Charity

We wish them all luck.

In addition to these one off events, other colleagues work  throughout the year volunteering time to help their local communities.

Britta Ohlsen, Commercial Account Handler at our Bridgwater office, volunteers time for Mind in Somerset.

Whilst Sophia Hennequin, Account Handler at Torquay is a Dementia Friend providing support for families, who have a member living with dementia.

 

 

 

 

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