Young volunteers from the Prince’s Trust for Stoke on Trent College took part in partnership work for their one-day project with the Buddy Bag Foundation. We volunteered our time to help support the charity with a bag pack of essential items for children who find themselves in emergency accommodation due to complex family situations. The…
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Associates at Amazon’s Rugeley site have taken time out to help support a Stafforshire charity with a bag pack of essential items for children who find themselves in emergency accommodation due to complex family situations. The Buddy Bags Foundation provides bags of essential and comfort items for children in emergency shelter such as toothbrushes, PJ’s,…
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BUDDY BAG PACKING EVENT – Q3 2018 In October, more than 40 volunteers from the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team across the UK packed 360 Buddy Bags for children entering emergency accommodation in Merseyside and the Midlands. Each year, 48,000 children require emergency accommodation in the UK and often arrive in just the clothes they are…
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The Gowling WLG Corporate Responsibility Team worked with Karen Williams (founder of the Buddy Bag Foundation) to organise the first of four in house volunteering Buddy Bags Brigade events, as part of the firm’s Charity of the Year partnership for 2019. On Monday 8th April, during the 90 minute event which ran like clockwork, thanks…
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Celebrating the BBF 100th bag pack, plus facts, figures and reasons to join BBF as a volunteer.
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CARING members of Saddleworth Round Table dedicated their Sunday afternoon to packing emergency care back packs which will help comfort 180 children. The Buddy Bag Foundation runs the scheme and donates the bags to children – from babies through to 16-year-olds – who find themselves in emergency care after a traumatic incident. The bags help…
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Wesleyan have taken time out to help support a Staffordshire charity with a bag pack of essential items for children who find themselves in emergency accommodation due to complex family situations. The Buddy Bag Foundation provides bags of essential and comfort items for children in emergency shelter such as toothbrushes, PJ’s, pants and vests, reading books and a cuddly teddy…
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At Brush-Baby we are delighted to mention that we are now supporting the Buddy Bag Foundation, an inspiring organisation that puts together a bag of practical and comforting goodies for children taken into emergency care across the UK. From the moment we first heard about the Buddy Bag Foundation’s mission to make a difference to children going…
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Volunteering Matters and Vodafone worked with Karen Williams to organise the first in house corporate event of its kind for Vodafone. Andrea Evans at Vodafone was keen to engage her staff in an in house/ micro volunteering event and a Buddy Bags Brigade event seemed like a perfect opportunity. 180 Buddy Bags were to be packed by…
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If you are a business considering supporting Buddy Bag you might be thinking “what can we really do to help?”. Let me tell you what we have done at Four Oaks Financial Services to support Karen, Chris and all the fantastic volunteers who make Buddy Bag the amazing success it is and help so many…
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