Pictured above: Steve Rainbow, fund-raising officer at St
Basils, collects the four starter kits from Gail Crathorn, left,
and Laura Freeman, both from BHSF
BHSF, Birmingham-based not-for-profit healthcare insurer and
employee benefits provider, has been playing Father Christmas to
three organisations which give help and support to children and
young people.
Staff from BHSF have been delivering gifts to the Ladywood
Project, Acorns Children's Hospice and St Basils, three of its
seven corporate social responsibility partners.
The Ladywood Project offers support to local families, provides
drop-in advice, children's work and women's groups as well as money
and social worker guidelines; Acorns provides care and support for
children and young people who have life limiting or life
threatening conditions and St Basil's works to prevent youth
homelessness by providing accommodation and support services.
Acorns and the Ladywood Project received boxes of chocolates and
soft toys while BHSF delivered four starter kits which contain all
a young homeless person would need to begin a new life in
accommodation supplied by St Basils.
Peter Maskell, chief executive of BHSF, said: "BHSF provides
cover to 400,000 people and strongly believes that a successful
business like ours should act in an ethical and
socially-responsible way and should put something back into society
as part and parcel of its business operations.
"Giving gifts each year to those less fortunate than ourselves
is part of a process which goes on throughout the year".