Everybody's Better Off!
We believe our business is really just a group of people who have the same values and work happily towards a common goal...
One of our most important goals is to support and contribute to our local community and charities.
This year we are supporting:
Firefly Cancer Awareness and Support
Firefly is about life, living it to the full and enjoying every second, whilst raising cancer awareness, offering support, meeting new friends and the bringing together of communities, their culture & their arts.
Firefly Cancer Awareness & Support are a registered Charity based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The charity was founded by a remarkable lady Denise Dunn, who sadly has suffered with cancer for the majority of her adult life.
Doncaster is a relatively small town and the hospital doesn't have a specialist cancer unit. The closest hospital for cancer treatment in South Yorkshire is the Western Park Hospital in Sheffield. This is not a long journey, but for someone who has just undergone chemotherapy, radiotherapy and various other invasive treatments it can be an uncomfortable and sometimes embarrassing journey if they have to use public transport.
Cancer patients will need to visit the units sometimes every day for ongoing treatment and will be reliant on friends and family to take them to the hospital, this can on occasion cause difficulties if the trip is needed daily. Relying on loved ones to take them for their care; which is not always easy especially for those that work full time. Also, the hospital is based within a very popular student suburb of Sheffield and it is extremely difficult to park near or outside the hospital.
Denise, or DeeDee to her friends, decided that SHE needed to make a difference.
Working full time, studying at University for a Midwifery and Nursing qualification, raising 5 young children and suffering with cancer she set to work to try and create a service that could alleviate the hassle and pain of getting to the hospital.
DeeDee's dream was to help the local people of Doncaster get to and from the hospital cancer units with as little stress and trauma as possible and without relying too heavily on their families.
She created the Firefly Express, a free, comfortable taxi service that would take them door to door. She knew that this dream needed the funding behind it; otherwise it would stay just that - a dream! She spoke to local businesses and funding facilities to see if they would help her fulfill this aspiration to support the local community with this unique and selfless service.
Their Mission
To provide funding to maintain the Firefly Express. A vehicle for a free shuttle transport service for patients undergoing cancer treatments at regional cancer centres. This superb vehicle has been donated by Fil Adams Mercer through Channel 4 Secret Millionaire.
This will ease the psychological, physical and financial stress faced by patients and their families.
Please take some time to understand why they exist and how they help the local community
Visit: https://www.facebook.com/FireflyCIC
In particular watch the video on this link (just copy and paste in into a web browser and hit play)
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10151228181016511&set=v…
As our company grows and expands we hope to help as many people as we can. It is important to us to give back to our local community and help support life changing charities (such as Firefly)
Eventually we hope to help save the planet!
Everybody's Better Off!
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