All Business West employees are encouraged to get involved in volunteering opportunities and can spend 2 days per year doing voluntary work. As a not-for-profit company, Business West wants to make a difference, and with around 150 staff, that’s 300 volunteer days each year!
Recently, several members of Business West’s international trade team volunteered for the Easter at Eastwood Park project: a drive to gift 400 Easter goodie bags to the prisoners at Eastwood Park, a women’s prison in Gloucestershire.
The Easter at Eastwood Park project is run by Sixty-One, a Bristol-based organisation working to support convicted people before, during and after their stay in prison. Sixty-One works across the region to help rehabilitate and reintegrate imprisoned people into the community, and the organisation’s largest current effort, MentorMe, is focused on training volunteers to mentor ex-prisoners.
Emily Mintern, Mandy Gibbens, Bev Sollars and Janet Stuckey all spent a morning packing and wrapping Easter gift bags at St. Agnes Church in St. Paul’s in Bristol.
From left to right: Emily Mintern, Mandy Gibbens, Janet Stuckey and Bev Sollars © Tim Snowdon 2023
It was a busy morning as the volunteers filled gift bags with chocolate eggs, biscuits, colouring books, colouring pens, lip salves, Easter booklets, information about the MentorMe project, and handwritten Easter cards.
Each bag costs £5 to make, and donations are being taken via the Easter at Eastwood Park JustGiving page. All money received will go towards the cost of the gift bags, and any excess will be put back into Sixty-One.
Find out more information about Sixty-One.
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