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A Bilston business is trying to raised £50,000 to provide personal protective equipment for the NHS.
SCP Group is looking at obtaining face masks from China to help NHS front line workers and sourcing other equipment and electronic tablets – to enable patients to keep in touch with families – in the UK.
The group, based in Meadow Lane, has given £10,000 and has had £15,000 in donations from contacts in the scaffolding industry, customers, family and friends after setting up an online Just Giving page working with Wolverhampton's Guru Teg Bahadur Sikh Temple and former Wolverhampton MP Paul Uppal.
Director Rikki Dale, a 25-year-old qualified accountant who has recently joined the family business run by his managing director father Ranjit Dale, said: "We are using our time wisely during the pandemic to help our NHS."
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It's good that there are lots of ways that people can help to raise money for the NHS - it's great for community spirit and offers an opportunity for people to show how much the care for the NHS, particularly its staff. But why should essential equipment such as PPE be financed through charity? Maybe if people really cared about the NHS they wouldn't have voted in droves for a government that has spent the last decade weakening and underfunding it - apparent to all, whatever your political persuasion
And just how far will things go if the current government see that essential services and equipment can be funded through charity - a very unreliable source of funding for such a large and important organisation? It's always happened, of course, I ran my first marathon in 1984 to raise money for the Don Valley scanner to be bought for the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, which cost £1m, but after all this is over the public need to press for proper, long-term, reliable funding. Also, the 2012 marketisation reforms that have led to fragmentation and lack of scrutiny of private sector involvement, weakening our current response, need serious review.
SCP Group is looking at obtaining face masks from China to help NHS front line workers and sourcing other equipment and electronic tablets – to enable patients to keep in touch with families – in the UK.
The group, based in Meadow Lane, has given £10,000 and has had £15,000 in donations from contacts in the scaffolding industry, customers, family and friends after setting up an online Just Giving page working with Wolverhampton's Guru Teg Bahadur Sikh Temple and former Wolverhampton MP Paul Uppal.
Director Rikki Dale, a 25-year-old qualified accountant who has recently joined the family business run by his managing director father Ranjit Dale, said: "We are using our time wisely during the pandemic to help our NHS."
Wolverhampton firm launches £50,000 appeal to buy PPE for NHS
A Bilston business is trying to raised £50,000 to provide personal protective equipment for the NHS.
It's good that there are lots of ways that people can help to raise money for the NHS - it's great for community spirit and offers an opportunity for people to show how much the care for the NHS, particularly its staff. But why should essential equipment such as PPE be financed through charity? Maybe if people really cared about the NHS they wouldn't have voted in droves for a government that has spent the last decade weakening and underfunding it - apparent to all, whatever your political persuasion
And just how far will things go if the current government see that essential services and equipment can be funded through charity - a very unreliable source of funding for such a large and important organisation? It's always happened, of course, I ran my first marathon in 1984 to raise money for the Don Valley scanner to be bought for the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, which cost £1m, but after all this is over the public need to press for proper, long-term, reliable funding. Also, the 2012 marketisation reforms that have led to fragmentation and lack of scrutiny of private sector involvement, weakening our current response, need serious review.
