Charity Football Match
LJJ Apprentice Dylan Holland and our Junior Buyer Brad Turley are playing in a Charity Football Match taking place at Stockton Town FC on Saturday 25th May. The lads’ friend and local lad Dalton Storey is organising the event after a successful Charity Match last year raising £600 for the amazing charity Mind, a Mental Health charity in England and Wales, providing information, support and campaigning for better mental health policies . This year Dalton will be donating to Vision 25, a local charity based in Stockton on Tees, offering training and social care for young people living with a disability aged 17 plus. The charity’s aim is to help young adults with disabilities to be as independent as possible by fully including them in all aspects of the community. The lads are not only playing in the Charity Match but have been helping to raise funds together with friends and family to try and beat what Dalton raised last year.
At LJJ we are always happy to support local charities and are very proud that our young employees are getting involved with this. LJJ in partnership with Standing Stone Drawing Office Supplies have sponsored the programmes for the event which will be sold at £2 per programme at the event, hopefully helping the lads raise additional funds for the charity. LJJ have a long standing relationship with Standing Stone, who provide all of our large format plotters and plotter paper. Standing Stone were more than happy to offer their expertise with the printing. A big thank you to Standing Stone for this!
LJJ will be making a donation this week to Vision 25 from our collections from the existing ‘Dress Down Fridays’ fund, a scheme we have been running for some time. The scheme was initially set up to raise funds for the Chairty Sarah’s Hope and is now used to support local charities and good causes put forward by Employees of LJJ. So far we have donated over £10,000 to various charities!
Watch this space for the final amount raised by the lads, Dalton has already smashed his total from last year at a whopping £1,220. Amazing job by a young local lad.