The team at sign and graphics specialist, FASTSIGNS Birmingham, will be donning their sweatbands to take part in a sponsored charity week of sporting activities to raise money for The Simon Cooper Foundation.
As part of the nationwide ‘FASTSIGNS Goes the Extra Mile’ charity campaign, the centre on Great Charles Street, will join the FASTSIGNS UK Support Centre and 16 other centres who have all pledged to walk, cycle or run a collective total of over 720 miles – the overall distance between all UK centres – during the course of 17 weeks from May to August this year.
Working from the North to the South of the country, colleagues at each FASTSIGNS centre will have one week to cover a total of at least 42.3 miles, with some centres pledging to do many more. Once each centre has completed its required distance, the challenge will pass to the next centre who will in turn have a week to complete the distance.
Initial plans for the Birmingham centre’s week include walking, cycling and swimming, as well as a team walk from the oldest pub in Birmingham, The Old Crown in Digbeth, to the newest, The Physician in Edgbaston. Two rival Birmingham City and Aston Villa fans from the centre will also be walking together from each respective football club’s grounds.
Janie Drury at FASTSIGNS Birmingham, said: “It’s always been important for us to support the wider FASTSIGNS network and this is a great way to come together as a team and raise money for such an amazing cause. We have a very busy week planned and we can’t wait to start clocking up those miles. If anyone would like to make a donation, I urge you to please dig deep as every little really does help and will make the difference.”
Launched by Simon Cooper, the son of the owners of the Enfield FASTSIGNS centre, Paul and Angela Cooper, the Simon Cooper Foundation provides support to patients living with Cancer, Cystic Fibrosis and life limiting conditions. Having suffered with both Cystic Fibrosis and cancer himself, Simon sadly passed away in July 2016 but his legacy lives on through the work the Foundation carries out across the country.
John Davies, Managing Director of FASTSIGNS UK, said: “The Simon Cooper Foundation is a charity that is very close to all our hearts here at FASTSIGNS UK so it’s fantastic that we’re able to do something special for such a worthy cause. We have such a fantastic network of UK centres so it’s great to see them all coming together to help raise some much-needed funds for so many people in need.”
To find out more about the Simon Cooper Foundation, visit: https://simoncooperfoundation.org.uk/news/.
You can make a donation to the ‘FASTSIGNS Goes the Extra Mile’ campaign through the Virgin Money Giving page – https://bit.ly/2urK1Dj.
For more information on FASTSIGNS Birmingham, visit: www.fastsigns.co.uk/862-birmingham.
