CEI Services Donates Money To Cockermouth Flood Victims

As mentioned earlier on in this blog, CEI Services Company Secretary Kate Archer, CEI staff and friends managed to raise £350 at Kates 60th birthday party. We all wanted this money to go to those most affected by the floods last year. We contacted the flood fund and several local organisations as we wanted our money to go directly to someone who needed it, but had little or no response. We even took out an advert in the paper offering the money and our flood restoration services free of charge to someone or to a family in need. Still we had no response. This says a lot about the way our community has pulled together in these hard times, free money, free restoration services, no takers!

Kate began working at one of the drop in centres in the centre of Cockermouth set up to offer care and advice to those who need it and in doing this she soon started to meet plenty of people who would gratefully receive what we were offering. After several encounters with Mr and Mrs Casson, Cockermouth residents whose home and lives had been disrupted by the floods, Kate decided to give the cheque to them so that they could get away from it all for a few days or put it towards whatever they need the most.

It is a pleasure to be able to help and our offer of free flood restoration assistance still stands, we are involved in several small projects in and around Cockermouth, working with insurance companies and local businesses. It is incredible to see the way our small town has pulled together and I think we can all now see genuine progress being made both on the Main Street and int he surrounding areas.