Seven volunteers from our Concrete Products site at Dove Holes volunteered a day to help collect Christmas trees from around the Derbyshire area, to raise funding for Blythe House Hospice.

Blythe House Hospicecare, in partnership with Helen’s Trust, offers a wide range of free services to care for, and support, anyone in the High Peak, Hope Valley, Derbyshire Dales and North East Derbyshire who is affected by life – limiting illness.

Donna Woolliscroft, Julian Wildgoose, Mark Green, Gary Collins, Dave Robinson, Archie Phillips and Aaron Hamilton all gave a day to help. They travelled around the surrounding villages / towns and helped other volunteers to collect Christmas trees. All the Christmas trees are recycled, and the volunteers managed to collect a record amount this year with over 920 trees which has raised over £13,000.

Paul Kania, Miller Operations Manager, commented: “This is a fantastic achievement and will aid the hospice to carry on doing the amazing work they do. Thanks, Donna, for arranging the day and look forward to you all achieving a new record amount collected next year!”