19 January 2012 09:02
West Midland's based charity for children gains support from E.ON Community Fund

The UK charity Sunfield, based in Clent, near Stourbridge, has been awarded a grant of £2,000 from E.ON's Employee Community Fund, courtesy of E.ON employee Helen Moore.

Sunfield, a national UK charity, specialises in the care of children and young people, aged 6 to 19, with complex learning needs and is recognised internationally for its work with children and young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Helen Moore, a HR Consultant with E.ON, said: "I was astounded by the work that takes place at Sunfield.  Not only do they offer full time residential care, education and provision for day students they also provide an assessment and outreach service to support children within their own family and school environments.  They make a real difference in people's lives and I was inspired to do my bit to help. 

"In addition to the award from E.ON I was honoured to be able to organise a fundraising event for them featuring local band Flying Colours, whose front man Richard Hale is also an E.ON employee.  I feel proud that E.ON and my colleagues helped me to do my bit and support such a worthwhile charity."

Sally Conway, Sunfield's Head of Family and Student Services, said: "We're extremely grateful to Helen, her colleagues and Flying Colours for supporting the work of Sunfield. We rely on donations to fund any new developments for the children and to have the support of a company such as E.ON is tremendous.

"The donations from the team and from the Employee Community Fund will help to fund the re-design and building of two autism specific houses which will accommodate 4 students in each residence. We thank everyone at E.ON for their continued support"

The E.ON Employee Community fund invites applications from employees based in the UK for funding of up to £2,000 for charities and community organisations that support education projects or vulnerable consumers.

If you would like to find out more about Sunfield or how to support their latest fundraising project, visit their website at www.sunfield.org.uk to find out what you can do to help.

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Notes to editors:

About Sunfield:

• Sunfield is a national UK charity and residential special school supporting children and young people aged 6 -19 throughout England and Wales who have complex needs and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sunfield is committed to the development of each individual child's abilities so that he or she may come to experience life to its full potential.
• Sunfield offers up to 52 week personalised, high quality child centered education and residential care and therapy for children and young people with severe learning difficulties, many of whom also have additional complex needs. Sunfield offers a safe haven and space in a calm and caring environment where vulnerable young people can work through their difficulties and live their life to their full potential. We also offer our knowledge and experience through our Professional Development Centre, publications and an outreach service with the long term aim of benefiting the lives of children with profound ASD not just nationally but internationally.
• For any press and media enquiries, please contact their Marketing and Communications Manager, Sarah Willis Tel: 01562 881 334/ Email: sarahw@sunfield.org.uk

About E.ON:

• E.ON is one of the UK's leading power and gas companies - generating electricity, and retailing power and gas - and is part of the E.ON group, one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies. E.ON employs around 12,000 people in the UK and more than 79,000 worldwide;
• In the UK, E.ON supplies power and gas to over five million domestic, small and medium-sized enterprise and industrial customers. E.ON also offers innovative energy services and technologies tailored to meet its customers' needs, and is helping customers become energy fit by encouraging them to insulate their homes, moderate their energy usage and even generate their own power;
• E.ON generates electricity from a mixture of fossil and renewable sources. It has world-class gas-, coal- and oil-fired power stations, onshore and offshore wind farms and is a market leader in combined heat and power (CHP). It is one of the UK's leading green generators with 21 wind farms and the UK's first wave power generator, with another 1,500MW of renewable capacity under development.
• E.ON and Age UK's community work to offer energy efficiency advice to older people has been awarded the Global Business Excellence Award 2011 for Outstanding Community Initiative;
• E.ON has been named as one of only 41 UK companies to be awarded the CommunityMark - a national standard of excellence in community investment.

For more information contact:

Louise Nottage on 02476 181 942 or louise.nottage@eonenergy.com or Victoria Blake on 02476 181 304 or victoria.blake@eonenergy.com