Staci is incredibly proud to announce that we are Blackburn and Darwen Youth Zone’s top contributor to corporate volunteering.
Blackburn and Darwen Youth Zone (BYZ) is a wonderful charity who provide a safe, warm space for children to go when they’re not at school. As part of this free service, the children get a free hot meal, and access to some fantastic facilities, such as careers advice from local businesses, a football pitch, boxing gym, dance studio, and many youth workers who are there to support their wellbeing and development.
Staci is passionate about supporting our local community, and seeing the brilliant work that BYZ do for Blackburn and Darwen’s most vulnerable children everyday, we knew we wanted to be involved and help the charity. We became a gold patron of BYZ in 2023 and have been donating to them ever since, leading to a total donation to date of £100,000. Not only that, but we also help fundraise for them and even get our brilliant clients involved, who donate stock directly to the children and also to us for raffles to raise money for them.
Most notably, Team Staci donate their time to BYZ. Every member of Team Staci gets 3 paid volunteering days per year, which most use during the summer to help BYZ when all of the children are off school and use of the Youth Zone is heaviest. 100 volunteers from Staci have dedicated almost 500 hours of their time to the charity, making us their biggest corporate contributor to volunteering. This relieves so much pressure from the staff at the Youth Zone, and also allows our Team Members to give back to their local community, which is an experience they find to be invaluable.
Wayne Chapman, CEO of Staci UK, commented: “We are incredibly passionate about helping out in our local community. We saw the valuable work that Blackburn and Darwen Youth Zone continues to do every day, but we also know how much charities are struggling at the moment.
Since Covid-19, and the increasing cost of living crisis, use of the Youth Zone is at an all time high, while donations and volunteers have been lower due to people having less time and money to be able to spend. We didn’t want a charity like Blackburn and Darwen Youth Zone, who give so much to young people, to end up struggling to provide their essential services.
I’m so proud of Team Staci for dedicating their time to give back to their local community, and it is an honour to be a gold patron of such a wonderful charity. Thank you to BYZ for all of the incredible work that you do.”