00:00FACT is a north east regional charity, we provide cancer support, awareness and education
00:11across the whole region. That can be anything from coffee mornings, counselling, fitness
00:18groups, wigs, mastectomy wear, you name it, we do what people need us to do. But one of
00:24the big things that is of concern for many people and especially people affected financially
00:29by cancer at the moment is cancer related poverty. So a very popular service if we want
00:36to call it that is our kindness kits where we provide food, toiletries, household products
00:42to people struggling financially because of a diagnosis of cancer. Some of these people
00:47are too poorly to visit food banks so we often deliver them but they can pick them up from
00:51our hub that we have just on Blanford Street as well. The donation from CR Reynolds is
00:58very much appreciated and it will be going directly towards providing our kindness kits
01:02in the Sunderland area. This makes a huge difference to the charity because it helps
01:09us provide a service but most importantly a huge difference to the people who are receiving
01:13the kindness kits. CR Reynolds have been working in Sunderland city centre for the past 18
01:18months now and the past 6 months on the car park scheme adjacent to Homeside. The car
01:25park will provide 196 spaces, it will have EV charge points, disabled bays, a cycle storage
01:34room for cyclists entering the surrounding area, city centre. As a company we always
01:42try to give back to the local communities which we are working within so in Sunderland
01:46that's meant that we give donations to 6 local charities. We've also worked with Sunderland
01:51College and we've engaged with 12 work placement students across the past 18 months which has
02:00gone down really well and it's something we aspire to do as a company more often.
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