Two good causes in north London are in line for a significant windfall after an Enfield business announced the return of its Helping Hands campaign.
Leading heating, plumbing and air movement materials supplier TG Lynes has a £15,000 prize pot available to help charities, community groups, clubs or sports teams make tangible, long-lasting improvements to their facilities.
One overall winner will secure £10,000 worth of product and materials to enhance their building, while a lucky runner-up will receive £5,000 worth of equipment.
This is the third year TG Lynes has run Helping Hands having launched the initiative in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. So far, the business has dished out support worth £30,000, making a significant difference to the four winning groups.
Andrew Ingram, Managing Director of TG Lynes, said: “We are delighted to announce the return of Helping Hands, which has really captured the imagination and caused a lot of excitement over the last two years.
“We had some fantastic entries last year and the winners, The Ruth Winston Centre and Southbury Primary, were able to make a real difference to their facilities.
“This year’s Helping Hands is particularly poignant for us as it comes just after we have celebrated 20 years of being based in Enfield, having moved from King’s Cross in 2004.
“We’re a major local employer with a genuine passion for supporting the community in any way we can and we look forward to trawling through the applications.”
Any group or organisation based in the Enfield vicinity – extending south to Hornsey, north to Hoddesdon, east to Epping and west to Barnet – is eligible to enter.
Entries can be made at https://www.tglynes.co.uk/page/campaigns/helping-hands-2024 up until midnight on September 30. Groups must provide an overview of what the organisation does, how it benefits the community and how £10,000 worth of product and labour would help.
Pauline Reynolds, Trustee at The Ruth Winston Community Centre, said: “Being awarded £10,000 from TG Lynes’ Helping Hands competition was amazing.
“As a self-funding Community Centre, it enabled to us re-instate a smaller room for use as an office by our General/Accounts Manager, which in turned freed up a room for use as classes, thus providing additional income for the Centre.
“We were also able to remove a concertina-style room divider and replaced it with an acoustic wall, vastly reducing the noise transmission between two rooms and enabling classes or meetings to take place in the two rooms at the same time, again helping to generate income for the Centre.”
TG Lynes stocks industry leading brands and supplies thousands of products including valves, steel and copper tubes and fittings, press systems, composite and plastic plumbing, drainage solutions and support systems and tooling. An extensive plant hire service is also available.
