22 July 2010 10:12
E.ON funds sustainable living garden for Derby nursery children thanks to employee

Whitecross Nursery School in Derby has been awarded a grant from E.ON's new Employee Community Fund, courtesy of parent and E.ON employee Clair Hatton.

The grant of £2,000 will fund new planting equipment and gardening tools to be used by the children to grow fruit and vegetables which will also help them learn about sustainable living and their impact on the environment.

Clair Hatton, Change & Engagement Business Partner at E.ON, said: "It makes me feel very proud to be able to present the school with this generous donation from E.ON.

"The new garden area will benefit all children and help teach them about healthy eating, as well as sustainability and the environment."

Clair handed over the cheque earlier this week, as the children celebrated the end of term with a tea party and wore party hats with a sustainable theme which they'd made in class from recycled materials.

Janet Mitchell, Headteacher at Whitecross Nursery School, said: "The children, parents, governors and staff at Whitecross Nursery School are delighted to have been chosen to receive a donation from E.ON's Employee Community Fund.

"The new gardening area will enhance our outside play area and hopefully instil a love of gardening from an early age."

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.

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Notes to editors:

• At E.ON, we recognise that many of our colleagues have charities that hold particular importance for them and our Employee Community Fund is a great way for us to help our employees raise funds for those charities;
• 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 more than 88,000 worldwide;
• E.ON's retail business is a leading energy supplier in the UK with around 5.3 million electricity and gas customers, covering domestic, SME and industrial;
• We're one of the leading green generators in the UK, with 20 wind farms located from Cambridgeshire to Kintyre. We own and operate 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.

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