Charity funds boosted by over £5000 after TWI’s Christmas gift

Feb. 24, 2012 - PRLog -- Members of staff at TWI were invited to nominate their favourite charities and when this Christmas there was no shortage of worthy suggestions, TWI decided to assist them all.

Local organisations, The Elizabeth Coteman Fund, a Cambridgeshire Community Foundation cancer charity; the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Rosie Maternity Hospital; Headway Cambridgeshire, which helps improve lives of those with acquired brain injury; and John Huntingdon’s Charity, based in Sawston, which helps those struggling with poverty or extreme personal difficulty, each received £750.

National charities Practical Action; Dogs for the Disabled; and the Handicapped Children's Pilgrimage Trust based near TWI’s Sheffield base, also received £750 each.

The Handicapped Children’s Pilgrimage Trust has recently written to say that the money will go towards their planned trip to take 8 young people with special needs and their volunteer helpers to Lourdes in 2012.

The photograph shows Tom Howes (right), friend and trustee of Headway Cambridgeshire, and Kerry Jamieson, representing The Elizabeth Coteman Fund, with Christoph Wiesner, Chief Executive of TWI (centre).

About TWI

TWI is one of the world’s foremost independent research and technology organisations, with expertise in solving problems in all aspects of manufacturing, fabrication and whole-life integrity management technologies.

Established at Abington, Cambridge, UK in 1946 and with several facilities across the globe, the company has a first class reputation for service though its teams of internationally respected consultants, scientists, engineers and support staff, whose knowledge and expertise are available to its Members as and when they require.

The company employs over 700 staff, serving 700 Member companies across 4500 sites in 80 countries.

With a long history of invention, innovation and knowledge transfer, TWI continues to develop its technical knowhow in engineering, materials and joining technologies, and assists in the production of international, American, European and British Standards and Codes of Practice. It also provides training, examination and certification programmes in welding, engineering and materials joining technologies with over 15,000 participants per year.

TWI houses a professional institution, The Welding Institute, with a separate membership of 6000 individuals.

TWI, Granta Park, Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL. Tel: 01223 899000.  Fax: 01223 892588.  E-mail: twi@twi.co.uk. Web: http://www.twi.co.uk    

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