Telford-based Entanet will again be supporting local charity Severn Hospice, this time in a new event (on May 9th) that will see three national firms each take over a charity shop for a day in a BBC Apprentice-style challenge.
Severn Hospice is a local charity that provides specialist care and support to families across Shropshire and North Powys who are living with incurable illness.
The Entanet team will take over the charity's Wellington branch and be responsible for the day's trading in the shop.
Furthermore, the communications provider will go up against two other locally-based companies (Interserve and Capgemini) in an Apprentice-style challenge to see which team can generate the largest sales revenue on the day.
Prior to the event Entanet staff are collecting and donating items for sale. A team of approximately ten volunteers will then process, price, sell and promote their items and other stock from the shop to raise valuable funds. The winners will be the team with the highest sales revenue by 3pm on the day.
Entanet's CEO Elsa Chen said: "We've participated in several of Severn Hospice's charitable events over recent years and we were eager to create a new initiative to generate even more awareness for this wonderful charity.
"We are excited to be the headline supporter of this event and are delighted by how the businesses involved have come together for a great cause.
"Our staff are amazing charity supporters and are looking forward to driving great sales revenue for the shop on the day. We are a naturally competitive bunch of people, so to know that all of our hard work will go to this deserving charity make us even more motivated."
Daniel Smith, Fundraising Officer Income Generation, from Severn Hospice, said: "We are excited to launch this new event and delighted by the positive response we have had so far. It's going to be great fun and will hopefully help us to raise some vital funds and generate further awareness of our charity, our shops and the services we provide, whilst providing the teams with some great team building activities."
The event will be held from 9am-3pm on Saturday 9th May across three of Severn Hospice's charity shops located in Wellington (Entanet team), Lawley (Interserve team) and Madeley (Capgemini team).