Volunteers and staff at NSPCC Scotland received a special delivery when the team from Amazon’s delivery station in Bathgate stopped by with a £1,000 donation.
The Bathgate team also held a collection at the delivery station and raised a further £1,000 for the charity.
The NSPCC is the UK’s leading children’s charity fighting to end child abuse. The charity offers free, confidential advice and support to children and young people through its Childline service, visits primary schools across the country to deliver ‘Speak Out. Stay Safe’ assemblies and workshops and works directly with families in local communities through its specialist teams.
NSPCC Scotland works specifically with local services and communities and attempts to influence national policy developments and political processes to protect the future of Scotland’s children.
The charity 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.
The donation will enable NSPCC Scotland to answer 500 more calls to Childline.
To celebrate the donation, members of Amazon’s Bathgate Delivery Station team visited the charity’s Glasgow headquarters.
Amazon’s Bathgate Delivery Station Manager, Scott Cartwright, said: “We are really pleased to be able to support NSPCC Scotland with this donation.
“The charity does such important work in our local area and we wanted to recognise that by offering our support. We had a great time meeting with the team in Glasgow to hear more about their efforts to stop child abuse for good.”
Jen Lindsay, from NSPCC Scotland, said: “On behalf of myself and NSPCC Scotland I want to say a big thank you to Scott and the Amazon team.
“The NSPCC receives 90% of its funding from supporters, so this donation will go a long way to help us make sure we can keep every child who needs us safe. We loved having the team down to meet us and hope that they know what a difference this donation will make in our community.”
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 more than 75 permanent jobs at the delivery station in Bathgate and works with around 15 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.