COVENTRY CHARITIES BENEFIT FROM HELPING HEARTS

Charities in Coventry have been awarded a share of more than £600 from the Heart of England Co-operative Society’s Helping Hearts Award scheme.

In the last month alone the Society pledged almost £2,500 to organisations across Coventry, Warwickshire, south Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.

The cash will be used to help make a difference to the lives of hundreds of people including schoolchildren, soldiers and the homeless.

Helping Hearts was set up in 2000. Recently, the Heart of England Co-operative Society celebrated a landmark £500,000 in pledges to charities and worthy causes throughout the trading area.

Among those to have benefited in the latest round of donations were Whitley Abbey Primary School which received £100 towards books for members of its story club, the Shysters Theatre company, which received £100 towards a Steadicam and Wood End Mums and Babies which received £100 towards a Christmas party.

The Coventry Community Health Service and Rathbone Training each received £100 towards planned events and  Provost Williams Primary School in Ryton received £50 of goods towards a Christmas fayre.

Gift vouchers of £25 went to Hill Farm Primary School in Radford, the Hillfields Children’s Centre and St Bartholomew’s Primary School in Binley.

Jo Dyke, Community and Membership Adviser at the Heart of England Co-operative Society, said: “Once again our Helping Hearts Award scheme has received requests from a wide range of groups which is great as it means our tobacco profits are reaching thousands of people from all walks of life across our trading area and they are helping some of the most deserving causes.