Charity Partner

In 2007, Westmorland Ltd chose Eden Valley Hospice as our charity partner because we believe by having a long term relationship with a charity, we can really make a difference. EVH provide palliative care for people with incurable or life limiting illnesses and have the only children's hospice in Cumbria, opened in 2007. We have set a target of raising £50,000 over 5 years. This wouldn't be possible without the support of our customers, for which we are very grateful.

2007 was the first year with our charity partner, and we got off to a fantastic start. We are delighted to announce that we achieved our first goal of raising £10,000, which was raised in a number of weird and wacky ways.....

It's a Knockaout - 10 members of Westmorland staff, including our Chief Executive Sarah Dunning entered a team in it's a Knockout, an event at the annual Cumberland Show in Carlisle. We don't like to shout about what position they came but we are very proud of the teams enthusiasm and the contribution they made towards the grand total for 2007!

A dip in Windermere - in October 2007, staff members joined Westmorland's Chief Executive Sarah Dunning to brave the icy waters of Windermere and raise money. Each person swam a 400 metre course and together collected 120 giant rubber ducks.

Season's Greetings- For the second year Westmorland Ltd made the decision to send all their seasons greetings via email and donate the hundreds of pounds usually spent on Christmas cards to our charity partner.

Christmas Raffle - In November 2007 we asked all our suppliers if they would be kind enough to donate a prize for our Christmas raffle. Lots of fantastic gifts were received and all the money raised from selling tickets was donated to our charity partner. Bearing in mind Westmorland employ over 500 staff, this was not your average raffle.

Buy the Book - The Journey by Ted Cowling. Read about Ted Cowling's wartime exploits in his fascinating, funny and thought provoking autobiography. Sadly, Ted Cowling lost his two daughters to cancer at an early age. Since then he has donated all the profits from his book to the Severn Valley Hospice where his daughters were cared for. However, since reading about our fundraising efforts, Ted and his close friend Kenneth Ballantyne, who helped him write and publish the book, have kindly offered to donate all the profits from their books sold in our shops to our charity partner. In recognition of this, we too take have taken the decision not to profit from the book, but to donate our revenue to Eden Valley Hospice

Customer Donations - During 2007 our customers gave generously and in total raised an amazing £2141.82. This was collected from Eden Valley Hospice collection boxes placed at each till point throughout Westmorland's 6 businesses.

We are always interested in new ideas on how to raise money for the hospice, and if you have any ideas or suggestions on how we can support the Hospice and raise even more money, please contact the HR department on 01539 711334. If you would like more information on Eden Valley Hospice please click here.

Tebay Primary School

We have been actively involved in supporting Tebay Primary School in their recent projects, by providing help with their successful bid to win the people's millions funding for play equipment and helping with their ‘Aspire' project (careers evenings to inspire 10 years olds - the first one was Heart Surgery)

We also support local events such as Tebay Bonfire Night, Summer Soccer School, Tebay Church Fete, as well as setting up monthly Car boot sales, held at J.38 services, with all proceeds being donated to local causes.