Covent Garden traders have been lauded for raising well over £100,000 in 19 years for a local charity.
Covent Garden Tenants Association (CGTA) presented a cheque for £15,490, raised at its annual dinner dance in 2007 to Clapham-based Trinity Hospice.
When the amount raised at this year’s dinner, held in June, is also taken into account it will take the cumulative total of donations to well over £100,000 since the CGTA began supporting the hospice in 1989.
Anne Hooper, chief executive at Trinity Hospice, said: “It costs £8 million annually for Trinity to provide free support and care for the terminally ill, as well as their families and carers, in Central and South West London. Around 39 per cent of the funding comes from the NHS but we are dependent on voluntary contributions and fundraising for the remainder. We are deeply grateful that, nearly 20 years ago, the CGTA chose Trinity, as its local hospice, to benefit from its members’ generosity, and that this relationship has continued to this day.”
Gary Marshall, chairman of the CGTA, said: “The members of the market community are the most hard working and generous people you are ever likely to meet. I am very proud of them and the support they always give to our local and vital hospice.”
