Wolverhampton firm launches £50,000 appeal to buy PPE for NHS
A Bilston business is trying to raised £50,000 to provide personal protective equipment for the NHS.
SCP Group is looking at obtaining face masks from China to help NHS front line workers and sourcing other equipment and electronic tablets – to enable patients to keep in touch with families – in the UK.
The group, based in Meadow Lane, has given £10,000 and has had £15,000 in donations from contacts in the scaffolding industry, customers, family and friends after setting up an online Just Giving page working with Wolverhampton's Guru Teg Bahadur Sikh Temple and former Wolverhampton MP Paul Uppal.
Director Rikki Dale, a 25-year-old qualified accountant who has recently joined the family business run by his managing director father Ranjit Dale, said: "We are using our time wisely during the pandemic to help our NHS."
He said SCP had received messages of support from former West Midlands footballers including Steve Bull, Don Goodman and Lee Hendrie since starting the appeal.
Donations can be made at justgiving.com/fundraising/scp-group-fundraising
"We want to support the NHS in any way we can. The PPE will go to hospitals in the area including New Cross, Wolverhampton," added Mr Dale.
The group, former in 2001, takes in Scaffolding and Construction Products, which is an established manufacturer, stockist and supplier of non-mechanical construction equipment for industries including scaffolding and access, demolition, construction, formwork, falsework and temporary staging, and scaffolding maker and distributor Forgeco. Both businesses are based at Swarn House in Meadow Lane.
