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Children's charity gets cash boost from borders builder

A children’s charity aimed at helping disabled and disadvantaged children has been given a £1,000 cash boost by a Bathgate-based housebuilder as part of its year-long initiative to support local communities.

Radio Borders Cash for Kids, which supports children that have special needs, are disabled, have life limiting illnesses or have been abused or neglected, received £1,000 from Persimmon Homes East Scotland.

Cash for Kids is a grant giving charity that receives requests from individuals and children’s organisations within the broadcast area of Radio Borders. In the first half of this year the charity received appeals totalling over £50,000. The funding provides a wide variety of day-to-day necessities such as clothing, beds, and carpets as well as the chance to take part in range of activities from specialist behavioural courses to tall ship sailing.

Candy Rafferty at Radio Borders, said: “We are delighted that Persimmon Homes East Scotland has chosen to support us as we rely entirely on donations. Last year we were able to help 1911 children from areas within our broadcast area from Alnwick in North Northumberland to Peebles but we are reliant on our fundraising activity to make this possible.

“This donation will help us to continue to offer support and develop new services for young people. We are so grateful.”

The donation comes as part of Persimmon Homes’ Community Champions project which donates up to £1,000 to two local groups and charities in each of its 30 regions.

Jim Kirkpatrick, managing director at Persimmon Homes East Scotland, said the community initiative is a way of supporting people across every city, town and village where the company works.

He said: “We want our Community Champions project to help as many people as possible and we felt the work that Radio Borders Cash for Kids is perfectly placed to achieve this.

“We are very pleased to support this extremely worthy cause.”

Persimmon Homes East Scotland is currently developing a range of new 2, 3 and 4 bedroom homes at the Melrose Gait site in Galashiels.

For more information visit persimmonhomes.com

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