Walfinch Southampton racks up the miles and raises sweet smiles for local charity

Home care franchise Walfinch Southampton is pressing on with its campaign to raise money for local charity Caraway. Most recently the dedicated team raised a total of £525 by taking part in the Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk and holding a Halloween spooktacular cake and bake sale.

Angela Harding, co-franchisee at Walfinch Southampton, care co-ordinator Robin Boulter, and Jo, one of the home care team, walked 6km along the seafront at Southsea as part of the memory walk.

Walfinch Southampton helps Caraway run a monthly memory cafe for people with memory issues and their carers in Potters Court, Maybush, in co-operation with St Peter’s Church. It is also helping raise money for Caraway to take on a chaplain to offer outreach support to families living with dementia across Southampton.

Spooktacular Cakes

The team also staged a Halloween cake and bake sale in their office building on 31 October.

They were variously made by Laura Pineiro, co-owner of Walfinch Southampton, Robin and Jo. Walfinch quality and compliance manager Amanda Keeler also came along to help, along with Walfinch senior franchise support manager Julie Farrow, who is also Walfinch Southampton’s franchise support manager.

As well as buying cakes, people from other companies in the business centre made donations – including money raised by a pumpkin carving competition held by a neighbour business.

The team’s next charity event will be a Christmas cake and bake sale in December, including a Christmas draw.