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20th March, 2009
Price & Buckland turn red as Comic Relief fever takes over
Staff at Nottingham school uniform manufacturer, Price & Buckland donated over £200 to Comic Relief.
The team at Price & Buckland did something funny for money and purchased specially created T-Shirts to wear on Red Nose Day 2009. Funds raised by the sale of the T-Shirts , which were donated and produced by the company, donned very ‘Red Nosed’ Joint Managing Directors, Anthony and Nick Buckland.
Only too happy to take part in the fun for Comic Relief, Price & Buckland are no strangers to supporting charitable concerns. The Hucknall based company raised over £17,000 last year alone to support worthy causes.
18th July, 2008
Uniform Donations Give Children Room To Read
Source: Pickup, Nottingham
Nottingham schoolwear supplier Price & Buckland is extending its charitable work and will be donating 2p from every uniform garment sold to Room to Read – a charity focused on building schools, libraries and educational infrastructure throughout the developing world.
Price & Buckland hopes to donate more than £15,000 this year to Room to Read, which was established in the US in 2000 by former Microsoft executive John Wood. Price & Buckland’s donations will enable Room to Read to establish more than seven libraries in India and Vietnam.
Nick Buckland, joint managing director at Price & Buckland explains why the company has decided to back the charity: “When we discovered the Room to Read charity and looked at the educational work it did in the developing world, particularly in Vietnam and India where we have suppliers, we wanted to get involved and give something back to those countries.”
The company is very active in supporting education around the world. Last year alone, it raised over £1,000 for CARE International by participating in the Care Challenge. Is also supported the British Airways’ Operation Simba initiative by partnering with John Cabot Academy in Bristol to donate hundreds of school uniforms to children in Africa.
For further information on the Room to Read organisation or to make a donation please visit www.roomtoread.org.
1st June, 2008
Area Magazine June 2008 John Cabot Academy Makes Generous Uniform Donation to African Schools
Source: Area Magazine
Bristol’s John Cabot Academy has teamed up with school uniform supplier Price & Buckland and British Airways to donate hundreds of school uniforms to schools in Kenya and South Africa. Now that they have a new uniform design, the Academy are able to donate 250 new garments to three African schools, which would have otherwise gone unworn.
1st June, 2008
Bristol School and Uniform Supplier Donate to African Schools
Source: Clifton Life
Bristol School the John Cabot Academy has teamed up with British Airways and school uniform supplier Price and Buckland to help out schools in Africa. The School which recently changed it’s uniform having acquired Academy status, will donate 250 new Price & Buckland uniform garments to three schools – one in Kenya and two in South Africa.
British Airways regularly appeals for clothing, books and toys to be delivered directly to children’s homes and orphanages in East Africa through its Operation Simba programme, while John Cabot has been working with schools in Africa for over six years and has partnerships with two schools in South Africa and one in The Gambia.
Nick Jones, the Academy’s headteacher, said: “We knew donating the uniforms to schools in Africa would really make a difference because from dealing with these schools over the years, it is unheard of for them to receive new garments, so with the help of British Airways the uniforms will be delivered in the coming weeks.”
23rd May, 2008
Caring company donate uniforms to Africa
Source: Huckwell & Bulwell Dispatch
A GENEROUS Hucknall company are helping to donate uniforms to three schools in Africa.
Price & Buckland, of Benneworth Close, off Watnall Road, have teamed up with the John Cabot Academy in Bristol and British Airways (BA) to send 250 uniforms to one school in Kenya and two in South Africa.
The academy have been working with schools in Africa for more than six years, providing IT equipment, teacher training and sewing machines.
And thanks to the link up with Price & Buckland, they are able to continue their good work.
Nick Jones, head teacher at John Cabot, said: “When we decided to change our uniform at the start of the school year, we wanted to make sure the leftover stock didn’t go to waste.
“Price & Buckland provide us with a stock-holding service. They too have been involved in initiatives in Africa in the past and so encouraged us to make the most out of our remaining uniforms.
“We knew that donating the uniforms to schools in Africa would really make a difference because from dealing with these schools over the years, it is unheard of for them to receive new garments.
“So with the help of BA, the uniforms will be delivered in the coming weeks.”
The Kenyan school will receive their uniforms as part of BA”s Operation Simba initiative – an annual appeal for clothing, books and toys that are delivered to children’s homes and orphanages in East Africa.
Price & Buckland, who were established in 1959, supply schoolwear to more than 3,000 schools in the UK and support several educational and charitable projects in developing countries.
