Contractor supports Helping Hands charity with food donation

Construction firm John Sisk & Son Ltd (Sisk) has delivered a collection of food and other essential items to local charity Helping Hands, an organisation working with Social Services to provide support to vulnerable people in the local area.

Sisk gathered the collection from staff at the Birmingham office and handed over boxes full of items of food, toiletries and kitchen basics to Helping Hands, which will be distributed to needy people through Social Services in Solihull.

Helping Hands guarantee to respond within 24 hours to local people in need of emergency, short-term food supplies and feeds over 1,000 people every year.

“We’re pleased to support Helping Hands and their work to help those in need.  At Sisk, we are targeting community and environmental initiatives as part of our sustainability week activities and we want to help more schemes like this to play an active role in the local area” commented Chris Dyer, Director Midlands and North West Region, Sisk.

The company held the collection as part of its sustainability week programme to participate and raise awareness in local community and environmental projects.

Ashley Keymer, Helping Hands Co-ordinator commented on the donation:

“We are always encouraged when the local business community help us as Sisk has.  This enables us to reach even more people in the local community who are struggling to make ends meet.”

The charity was launched in 1998 to provide emergency assistance to people in crisis situations, providing food and essential items in addition to household maintenance and advice on debt management.