Company extends its three-year partnership with RAF Benevolent Fund
Howard Lake | 28 March 2013 | News
Secure IT solutions provider Prolinx Ltd is to extend its three-year partnership with the RAF Benevolent Fund. It has made an immediate donation of £40,000 and has committed to donate more before the end of 2013.
Prolinx has supported the Fund with a £50,000 corporate donation each year since 2010. In addition, its Managing Director Andy Weller has sponsored a professional racing yard, Lawney Hill Racing, on behalf of the Fund. The stable and all of its livery have been branded with the charity's corporate identity. This has helped to raise awareness of its work with new audiences and with generating significant media interest.
The company has organised stable tours and race days both for the Fund's beneficiaries and for serving RAF personnel.
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Prolinx has also bought a thoroughbred racehorse and named it Airmens' Friend. All winnings are donated to the Fund.
Andy Weller Managing Director of Prolinx explains: “Our three year partnership with the RAFBF has been hugely rewarding, and we have been able to see and hear how our financial support has translated into the delivery of much needed welfare services to both the serving and retired RAF community. Meeting some of the Fund’s beneficiaries at first hand has been a humbling experience at times. For everyone at Prolinx that is really what it’s all about.”
Weller explained: "In reviewing our charitable support my co–Director Gary Styles and I had no hesitation in wishing to remain loyal to the Benevolent Fund. Our partnership is meaningful and we enjoy working with their highly professional team… We hope to make the total donation amount to £100k in 2013 and if we continue to be successful then we will seek to do more of the same year on year."
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