Hospice receives £14,091 from Anglo American’s Great Days initiative

Hospice receives £14,091 from Anglo American’s Great Days initiative

Saint Catherine’s Hospice, Scarborough Mates and Yorkshire Air Ambulance have a shared a pot of over £42,000 as a result of Anglo American’s Great Days Programme – an internal campaign to drive safe and responsible working practices and behaviours.

Every January, the team working on Anglo American’s Woodsmith Project are asked to vote for their favourite local charity, with the three most popular picked as the beneficiaries for the year.

The charity pot accumulates every day based on safety and environmental performance and meeting project milestones, with almost £140,000 being distributed to local charities as a result over the last three years.

Susan Stephenson from Saint Catherine’s Hospice, said: “This is a huge amount of money for us that will make such a big difference to those people who need our support at the most difficult times in their life.”

“We’re so grateful for this funding. It was so much more than we expected and means we’ll be able to do so much more for those that we help avoid social isolation,” added Iain Hale, Founder and Trustee of Scarborough Mates.

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance has been a Great Days beneficiary for three years running, receiving over £55,000 from the initiative. “The Woodsmith Project team can be incredibly proud every time they see one of our yellow helicopters in the air. This is a fantastic amount of money to receive and has helped, and continues to help, so many people when they need it,” said their Fundraising Manager Linda Stead.

Tom McCulley, Crop Nutrients CEO, said: “It was great to meet our 2022 charities and hear about all the great work our funding is going to support. Supporting people living in the communities surrounding the Woodsmith Project is central to Anglo American’s core purpose – to re-imagine mining to improve people’s lives.”

The Woodsmith Project team have been voting for their 2023 Great Days charities, which will be announced soon.