£4,000 from Amazon’s delivery station

Cancer Fund for Children supports young people living in Northern Ireland who have been diagnosed with cancer or living with a parent diagnosed with cancer.

The charity works with families during and after treatment so that no family has to face cancer alone. Amazon also supported the charity in 2018 with a £1,000 donation.

The donation will go towards funding two family visits to the charity’s residential centre, Daisy Lodge, in Newcastle. At Daisy Lodge, families can spend quality time together in a safe and supportive environment, far away from the pressures of cancer treatment and hospital visits.

Amazon Belfast Delivery Station Manager, Jim Press, said: “We are proud to support Cancer Fund for Children once again. The charity does a fantastic job supporting children when they need it most. We hope this donation helps the team continue its great work.”

Alex Murdock, Corporate Fundraiser of Cancer Fund for Children, added: “We are very pleased to receive this support from Amazon. Like many charities, Cancer Fund for Children relies on donations to continue our work supporting children and families affected by cancer. I’d like to say a huge thank you to Jim and his team for this donation.”

Cancer Fund for Children received the donation as part of the “Amazon In The Community” programme, where the company supports the communities around its operating locations across the UK.

Community donations is one of a number of ways in which Amazon is supporting communities across the UK during Covid-19.

Amazon has joined a coalition of companies, universities, and research institutions to boost testing capacity for Covid-19. Amazon’s logistics network, along with Royal Mail, will deliver test kits to critical workers and diagnostic sites set up around the UK.

Amazon is also providing free online STEM resources to students in lower-income communities to enable learning to continue during school closures and is working with charity partner Magic Breakfast to ensure they can continue to provide free breakfast provisions to children in disadvantaged areas.

For more information on how Amazon is supporting the UK during Covid-19 visit their site.

Amazon Logistics is helping independent local delivery companies to grow their businesses and adds capacity and flexibility to Amazon’s delivery network to meet increasing customer demand.

Amazon has created over 40 permanent jobs at the delivery station in Belfast and works with a dozen independent delivery companies with hundreds of drivers to provide the fast and reliable delivery Amazon customers love and trust. Packages are shipped to the delivery station from Amazon fulfilment and sortation centres and loaded onto vehicles to get delivered to customers.

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