# Company extends its three-year partnership with RAF Benevolent Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/03/28/company-extends-its-threeyear-partnership-raf-benevolent-fund/
- Published: 2013-03-28T12:23:16+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

[⌊Airmen's Friend at Bangor - winnings to RAFBF⌉⌊Airmen's Friend at Bangor - winnings to RAFBF⌉Prolinx](http://www.prolinx.co.uk)
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.”

 

 

 

www.rafbf.org

 

 

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