Luton’s Community Spirit Ensures BIG Help Week Success
Published: 07 December 2011
Luton showed its community spirit during BIG Help Week for NOAH Enterprise and helped raise much needed funding to support the town’s homeless this winter.
The initiative was launched jointly between London Luton Airport and its Charity of the Year, NOAH Enterprise, as a community-wide appeal to local people to donate any unwanted quality saleable items which could then be resold in NOAH’s charity shops.
Donations from schools, church groups and businesses arrived by the bag full day after day and volunteers were kept busy sorting and preparing the goods for sale at NOAH’s High Town Charity Shop and the NOAH Furniture Warehouse, Church Street.
Jim O’Connor, Chief Executive of NOAH Enterprise said “At this time of year, conditions can be especially harsh for those living on the streets of Luton. Last year our night shelter helped around 60 people survive the winter who may not have survived otherwise. BIG Help Week has raised awareness for our work and the goods generously donated will raise essential funds to provide help to those who need it most”.
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For more information please contact:
London Luton Airport Press Office press.office@ltn.aero
Or
NOAH Enterprise - 01582 484001 www.noahenterprise.org
Notes to Editors
London Luton Airport is one of the UK’s largest airports and carried almost 9 million passengers in 2010. The Airport employs over 500 staff, is a key economic driver for the region and a major base for ‘low cost’ or ‘no frills’ air travel.
easyJet, Wizz Air, Ryanair, Monarch, Thomson, Aer Arann, EL AL, Blue Air and Flybe operate from the airport, departing to over 90 destinations including services to Europe, Africa, and Asia, with onward connections to Mumbai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Beijing and Bangkok via Tel Aviv.
The Airport is operated and developed by a consortium of which Abertis Infraestructuras, a leading European infrastructure provider, is a 90 per cent majority shareholder and Aena Internacional, the international business arm of Aena - the Spanish national airport and air traffic control organisation, is a 10 per cent shareholder.
NOAH Enterprise is a charity which seeks to help the most disadvantaged in the local community. Particularly, it is concerned with providing a practical, empowering and caring service to people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless, and others who are marginalised and socially excluded.