06 September 2007 11:59 Central Networks supports Worcestershire junior cricket team’s marathon curry night

One of the club's coaches, Andy Thomas, of Redditch, has worked for Central Networks, part of E.ON UK, for 32 years and it was in recognition of all his hard work that the donation was made.

"I helped start the junior section at the club with a few other fathers about four years ago because the kids really wanted to get involved when they watched us play cricket, and we now have over 160 junior members," said Andy.

"The club's completely funded by donations and I came up with the idea to raise money from a marathon curry evening, which meant I spent over two weeks cooking more than 30 litres of curry!

"It was a fantastic night and we had over 140 people turn up, and, needless to say, there was no curry left at the end of it all.

"As you can imagine, it's expensive to run a sports team of any type and the money we received from E.ON will come in really handy.

"The cash is going to help us to buy netting, which allows the kids to practice their batting skills in a safe environment and hopefully hit a few more sixes!"

E.ON supports its employees by recognising and rewarding the voluntary activities undertaken in their own time.

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Notes to editors:

• E.ON UK supports its employees' favourite charities by matching funds raised through sponsorship and other activities undertaken in employees' own time;
• E.ON UK donates grants of up to £250 to charities and not for profit organisations in recognition of any employee who has volunteered for more than 80 hours of personal time. In 2006, E.ON donated a total of £34,000 to more than 140 organisations to recognise the efforts of staff who volunteered over 23,000 hours of their own time.
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