NCB and Eden Brown offer their DIY skills to Tooting school

Tuesday 21 July 2009

This Sunday (19 July) will see staff from NCB, and ten keen volunteers from recruitment specialist Eden Brown, helping to redecorate St Boniface RC School in Tooting.

The event marks the start of NCB's corporate volunteering programme, which aims to give volunteers on the ground experience of helping children and young people. The volunteers will be painting the outside of the St Boniface building and helping to tidy up the playground.

NCB is Eden Brown's charity of the year, and the fundraising partnership to date has involved parachute jumps, quiz nights and dress down days, as well as Eden Brown staff taking part in the London 10K on 12 July.

Brendan Hanlon, Head of Fundraising at NCB, said: 'Eden Brown staff have been fantastic at taking on new challenges and organising events to help improve the lives of children and young people. We are delighted to see them taking time out of their weekends to help the school community at St Boniface.'

Mei Ling Perrymen, Marketing Executive at Eden Brown, said: 'Eden Brown chose NCB to be our charity for 2009 because of the excellent work they do in offering support to people working with children, their families and carers, and children and young people themselves. Our volunteers are looking forward to showing off their DIY skills on Sunday and are keen to see how their work can make a real difference to the lives of the children at the school.'

On Sunday The Parent Teachers Association at St Boniface will be rewarding the hard work of the volunteers with food and refreshments.

The event would not have been possible without the generosity of local hardware stores, including Russell's DIY & Hardware Store - Tooting, Homebase - South Wimbledon, Streatham Vale and Wandsworth and B&Q - Norwood Road.

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Notes to Editors

NCB's mission is to advance the well-being of all children and young people across every aspect of their lives. As a membership and infrastructure support agency for the children's sector in England and Northern Ireland, NCB provides essential information on policy, research and best practice for our members and the members of our wide range of partnership bodies, which operate under our charitable status and are based in our London headquarters. For further information visit www.ncb.org.uk

Eden Brown is a Professional Recruitment agency; established in 1989 we offer recruitment, training & consultancy and managed services to employers in the private and public sector across the UK. For further information visit www.edenbrown.com