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Barratt Homes Yorkshire West fundraising for charity, KidsOut!

25 January 2016: Barratt Homes Yorkshire West division is encouraging local businesses to dig deep and get involved in KidsOut’s event at Elland Road later this year, to help raise vital funds for disadvantaged children.

Bookings are now being taken for the black tie evening of entertainment, competition and networking at Leeds’ Elland Road on 3rd March, which will see guests taking part in a fully interactive quiz based on the popular TV show, a Question of Sport, along with a guest speech from former England footballer and manager Kevin Keegan.

Each table will be designated as a football team, wearing the scarves of a well-known UK or European club whilst they compete for the top prize, whilst enjoying a champagne reception and four-course meal.

Barratt Homes Yorkshire West Managing Director and KidsOut’s local chairman, Ian Ruthven, and committee member Lisa Gamble, who also works at Barratt, are both supporting the event, for which tickets are now on sale. All money raised from the evening will support KidsOut’s work to provide fun and positive experiences for children throughout the UK who are living in refuge, economic hardship or with other acute disadvantages.

Ian Ruthven, Managing Director at Barratt Developments’ Yorkshire West Division, and chair of the Kids Out Leeds committee commented: “KidsOut is a wonderful charity and we’re always thrilled to get involved here at Barratt. The charity’s work truly does help disadvantaged children within the Leeds region, so it’s an extremely worthy cause. The event evening is set to be a lot of fun and we’re expecting there to be a great, friendly but competitive atmosphere. This year, we’ll also have Kevin Keegan at the event as our guest speaker, so it’s going to be a very special evening and we hope local businesses will get involved.”

Gordon Moulds, Chief Executive at KidsOut, commented: “We are holding this event up and down the country throughout the year, and if the attendance at the event last year is anything to go by, we’re going to be in for a fantastic evening! We’re very grateful to all who have already bought tickets and there are some still available for the event so we’d encourage local businesses to show their support. Last year we raised an incredible £96,000, which went towards helping disadvantaged children across Yorkshire, so we’re looking to further improve on the total this year.”

For more information about Barratt Homes visit www.barratthomes.co.uk

For more information on KidsOut or to purchase tickets, visit http://www.kidsout.org.uk

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For further information about Barratt Yorkshire West please contact Helen Bailey, Adam Worrall or Louise Watson-Dowell on 0113 2429 174 or email: bhdwh@manifestcomms.co.uk

NOTES TO EDITORS:

Barratt Developments PLC is a FTSE100 company. Barratt Group sold 16,447 homes in the year to June 2015, making it the biggest housebuilder by volume in Britain. Barratt Group was awarded a maximum five star rating for the sixth consecutive year in the 2015 Home Builders Federation Customer Satisfaction Survey. Site managers working for Barratt Group won 81 awards for quality workmanship in the 2015 NHBC Pride in the Job Awards. Barratt has won more Pride in the Job awards than any other housebuilder for the last eleven years. Barratt Group provides a two-year warranty to the first owner or purchaser direct from the company of its new build homes, on the fixtures and fittings installed at the time of purchase.

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