# Mobiles for Mobility:  Mecca Bingo launches national fundraising initiative

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/04/14/mobiles-mobility-mecca-bingo-launches-national-fundraising-initiative/
- Published: 2009-04-14T13:46:56+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Mecca Bingo has launched a new national fundraising scheme with charity partner 
Whizz-Kidz that will turn peoples’ unwanted mobile phones into cash to support the
independence of young wheelchair-users in local communities.

‘Mobiles for Mobility’ asks that the public bring their old mobile phones into Mecca
bingo clubs across the UK – with the money raised through recycling, funding powered
and manual wheelchairs and other equipment via Whizz-Kidz.

Simon Wykes, Managing Director for Mecca Bingo says: “The Charity partnership with
Whizz-Kidz is something we’re really proud of at Mecca as the feedback from both
team members and customers has been extremely positive. National campaigns such 
as Mobiles for Mobility are a great way to bring all of the clubs together to work
towards a common goal but at the same time make a difference to the local communities
in which we operate.”

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Ruth Owen, Chief Executive of Whizz-Kidz, added:

“We are absolutely thrilled with the enthusiasm and inventiveness of all Mecca team
and club members. In 2008 they raised over a quarter of a million pounds to support
young wheelchair-users’ independence.

“Disabled children stand virtually no chance of getting a powered wheelchair on 
the NHS. Through Mecca Bingo’s funding of powered and manual wheelchairs and training,
more children now have the opportunities previously denied them. Please help us 
raise even more money to make real differences to young lives.”

As part of the ongoing ‘Mecca Wheel Difference’ campaign, Mecca clubs across the
UK raised over £286,000 in 2008.

For more information contact Rob Dyson, Whizz-Kidz PR Manager on 020 7798

6103 or r.*****@************rg.uk

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