PalletFORCE holds publicity drive for drivers
PalletFORCE held a Drivers’ Night at the Company’s Lichfield hub on the night of Tuesday 24th July, to help build publicity and awareness for the Network’s sponsored charity, The Anthony Nolan Trust.
The Anthony Nolan Trust provides lifesaving donors for leukaemia patients in need of a bone marrow transplant. Maintaining the UK’s most successful bone marrow register, since 1974 the Trust has helped to give over 4,000 children and adults a new chance of life.
PalletFORCE became aware of the Trust’s work through the work of Jim McLay, the late Depot Principal at Glenhire. Jim was suffering from a type of blood cancer which could only be cured by a bone marrow transplant from a matching donor and he became a staunch ambassador for the charity before his death, with two Glenhire trailers boasting the Trust’s livery.
Representatives from the charity were on hand to explain their work and to recruit drivers to become donors. DAF also lent its support, providing a hospitality unit with refreshments as well as examples from its vehicle range for drivers to take a look at.
