CRAIGAVON DO

There are many easy ways to raise money for charities but easy doesn’t always interest the employees at Craigavon Delivery Office. When they recently set themselves a challenge to fund-raise for Barnardo’s they wanted to ensure that it would be a real challenge.

As an office that has a long history of fund-raising they were looking to do something completely different. After much discussion someone suggested that they pull a Royal Mail lorry from Portadown along the 7 mile route to the town of Lurgan. So on the first May Bank Holiday they set off with their Barnardo’s Banner and buckets and helped relieve the passing public of over £1.000 along the route for our nominated charity.

Event organiser Eddie Drury who is a Postman at the Craigavon Office said “when we discussed this at our meeting with Barnardo’s Northern Ireland Representative Lynn McNutt she thought that it was a great idea. We’ve a few more fund raising events planned for over the summer and will be keeping with the theme of “something completely different”.