Charity Christmas Donation

This year, John Laing has decided not to send Christmas cards.  Instead, a £5,000 donation has been made by the John Laing Charitable Trust to the charity Vukukhanye in South Africa.

John Laing staff were invited to nominate a charity that they cared passionately about to receive the donation.  The nominations were then anonymously judged from a selection of people across the business.  The Vukukhanye charity was the clear winner and here’s why.

The charity, which originally operated under the name ‘Save a Child’, was founded in 2001 as a project to focus initially on the foster care of orphans and vulnerable children, including those affected/infected by HIV/AIDS.

Given the ever growing need for holistic community support, the objectives of Vukukhanya were expanded to include a broader range of public benefit programmes. 

The core objectives are:

Click here to find out more about Vukukhanye

Happy Christmas!