The Educator Magazine U.K. Sept-Dec 2022 - Magazine - Page 50
Versapak teams up with Heart Felt Tips
charity to donate 100 sustainable pencil
cases per month to underprivileged children
Tamper evident carriers and security
seals manufacturer www.versapak.
co.uk is delighted to announce its new
partnership with charity Heart Felt Tips
to support underprivileged children
as part of its Recycle Your Versapak
scheme.
Royal Warrant Holders Versapak is
recycling material from their carriers
and pouches to make new pencil cases
for disadvantaged children across the
UK. The first batch of 100 pencil cases
was donated in June and, through the
charity partnership, a further 100 pencil
cases will be donated every month for
the foreseeable future.
Heart Felt Tips partners schools, clubs
and faith centres with local children’s
charities and foodbanks to distribute
the pencil cases to families who need
them, helping to keep costs down
during the ongoing cost-of-living crisis,
ensuring families don’t have to make a
further choice between buying supplies
or eating. Beyond the donations, this
also helps build a relationship between
the charity/foodbank and the school,
club or faith centre. Such connections
are vital when supporting underprivileged children in local communities.
An example of this is The Manor
Preparatory School in Abingdon that
requests large pencil cases. This is so
the cases can be filled by buddy groups
at school and then provided for the
Abingdon Foodbank. This two-step
process involving the students helps
create new relationships throughout
the school’s age groups and educates
them on helping others in less
fortunate situations.
Versapak’s Recycle Your Versapak
scheme was originally created to find
a way to repurpose materials from
surplus carriers and pouches and has
since expanded to include much more.
All Versapak bags and pouches are
reusable over 2,000 times and are fully
recyclable. Both Heart Felt Tips and
Versapak are committed to recycling
and repurposing useful materials to
help the environment.
Caroline Atkinson, Group Managing
Director of www.versapak.co.uk, said the
following on the charity partnership:
“We’re incredibly excited and proud to
be working with Heart Felt Tips to aid
disadvantaged children in an
environmentally friendly manner.
The Recycle Your Versapak scheme
continues to expand further and
further, with forward-thinking initiatives
like these doing a fantastic job
reflecting our core values and desire
to give back to the community.”
Jeremy Houghton, founder of
www.heartfelttips.co.uk, commented:
‘’At Heart Felt Tips we are very excited
about our new partnership with
Versapak. Our main expense is the
empty pencil cases themselves, and we
are so grateful that Versapak contacted
us with their generous idea of making
them from leftover product material.
Each pencil case is therefore original,
colourful and hard-wearing. In
addition, Versapak share our ethos of
recycling and repurposing useful
materials to help the environment and
save money. These pencil cases will be
filled with stationery by our fabulous
partner schools and ambassadors and
given to children in need throughout
the UK.”
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