PassIT! partners raise £4340 in fundraising efforts for PrintIT!

Print Solutions

For the past year, Duplo’s London Calling partners have been passing the PassIT! baton in order to raise money for Proskills’ schools into industry programme, PrintIT!. Over the past year, each company has taken it upon themselves to raise money and awareness for the programme during their allocated one month slot – and what a fantastic job they have done! We have seen cake sales, charity barbeques, long distance runs and cycles, training services for free in exchange for donations, charity fun days and much more, all in aid of helping PrintIT! reach more young people than ever before.

Proskills UK has announced that the initiative has raised a whopping £4340 in donations from Duplo UK and its London Calling partners: Optimus, Antalis, Apogee (formerly Balreed), Taopix, Vpress, LumeJet, Renz, Neopost, and Vivid.

PrintIT! is a nationwide education initiative that has been teaching students about the print, paper and packaging industries since 2005 and runs solely on the support of the Printing industry. That is why having the on-going support from the industry itself is so vital to the programme.

Jonathan Ledger, CEO of Proskills UK Group, commented: ‘Wow! Ten companies over ten months have smashed one goal! What a fantastic amount of money raised throughout the past year, that will go directly towards helping more young people be inspired and supported to enter the print, paper and packaging industries. PassIT! has been a landmark fundraising campaign, as much of the money raised has been so generously donated by Duplo UK and its London Calling partner’s employee teams. Individuals have peddled, ran, provided consultations and even cooked their way to raising these much needed funds.

‘Many thanks to all who donated their time and effort to raise this brilliant sum. Proskills does not receive any other funding for PrintIT! so this donation is gratefully received.’