Over the past 5 months, the staff at Rowlinsons have been giving up some of their time to volunteer for various local charities and organisations. This is all part of our Community Engagement Initiative set up by our Charity Committee.
Members of staff have been able to choose from lots of different types of volunteering opportunities within our local area. These have included:
- Garden Party at the Grosvenor Estate in aid of SPACE
- Tree Planting at Hobhey Wood, Frodsham
- Sponsorship and Helping Santa at Christmas in Frodsham
- Helping Santa with Rotary Frodsham & Helsby
- OPAL – Older People Active Lives – Weekly Tuesday Club
- Food Collection for Runcorn Food Bank
- Donation to Breakfast with Santa hosted by the PTA at local a Primary School – Frodsham CE Primary.
Here at Rowlinsons, we have a special connection with OPAL. Back in 2018 it was the first local charity that we partnered with to raise much needed funds and awareness. It is so wonderful to be able to circle back to this brilliant, supportive charity to offer our services once again, in this highly rewarding way.
Every week we have been heading down to the Tuesday Club at Frodsham Methodist Church, to offer our support to its members. Some of the activities we have joined in with have been singing, quizzes, crafting, chatting and serving food/drinks, helping with the raffle or bingo games, listening to several speakers or story tellers, even washing up! Thoroughly enjoyable!
Every single member of staff who has donated their time, no matter what the activity or event, has come back to the office calm, fulfilled and happy, strengthening our commitment to our community and our local residents. Spending just a short time away from the office and engaging with our local community really has improved our mental well-being.
With permission, we share a snapshot of our time with OPAL.
In total, we have donated over 140 hours of our time – whilst we don’t want it to sound like “community service”, we feel passionate about the support we have given and are very proud of our staff who have taken part in these events. If you know a local charity or organisation would like to work with us, please email charity@rowlinsons.co.uk.
Thank you to all the organisations mentioned above and we are very much looking forward to continuing our community engagement initiative into 2025. Watch this space!
