15 December 2009 10:25
E.ON employees send hampers to vulnerable and elderly

Energy company E.ON is collecting food and toiletry items from employees to send as Christmas hampers to vulnerable and elderly people in the Nottingham and Coventry areas as a special Christmas treat.

Four E.ON sites - three in Nottingham and one in Coventry - are acting as centres where the food and toiletry donations are being collected. The Christmas hampers will be made up by the E.ON Community team and passed on to Age Concern, who will send them out to the vulnerable and elderly in time for Christmas.

Sarah Green, E.ON Employee Involvement Manager, said: "This is a great opportunity for us to support our community partners and engage employees in giving something back to the vulnerable and elderly residents of local communities at what can be a very lonely time for them.

 "The Idea is to make this Christmas more of a festive season for people who can't afford expensive presents or are all by themselves. We want to let them know that E.ON employees care about them this Christmas time."

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Notes to editors:

• E.ON is one of the UK's leading power and gas companies - generating and distributing 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. We employ around 16,000 people in the UK and over 92,000 worldwide;
• We're one of the leading green generators in the UK, with 20 wind farms located from Cornwall to Northern Ireland. We also burn biomass material mixed with coal in two of our power stations and have completed one of the UK's largest dedicated biomass power stations at Lockerbie. Combined, our renewable portfolio generates enough green energy to power the homes in a city the size of Manchester.

For more information contact:

Victoria Blake on 02476 181304