Colnbrook steelworkers donate £500 to Cancer Research UK

Staff at Corus Service Centre in Colnbrook have donated £500 awarded to them for outstanding health and safety performance to Cancer Research UK’s ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign’.   

The charitable donation was given to the Poyle Trading Estate based Service Centre by Corus’ management team in recognition of the business going more than four years without a lost time accident.   Staff decided that donating the money to Cancer Research UK would be particularly appropriate, as a colleague died from breast cancer last year.

John Raistrick, General Manager of Corus Service Centre in Colnbrook, said: “Going four years without a lost time accident is a major achievement and demonstrates the commitment that everyone at Colnbrook has to maintaining the highest health and safety standards.  It also shows the benefits of having a culture in which employees at all levels take daily responsibility for health and safety across the site and feel able to highlight any health and safety issue they feel is of concern. “

Commenting on the £500 donation, Cancer Research UK’s community fundraiser for Berkshire Jacqui Harrington said: “We’re delighted that staff at the Corus Service Centre have chosen to support our Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign.  The donation will help us fund research into the causes, prevention, treatment and cure of breast cancer, which, with more than 41,000 new cases every year, is the second most common cancer in the UK.”