Sainsbury’s Eltham raise £1090.62 for the Freddie Farmer Foundation during half-term week (From News Shopper)

Sainsbury’s Eltham raise £1090.62 for the Freddie Farmer Foundation during half-term week

11:57am Thursday 3rd November 2011 in Community

Sainsbury’s in Philipot Path off Eltham High Street ran a fund-raising awareness week during half-term week (October 24-28) for their adopted charity for a year, the Freddie Farmer Foundation.

Freddie's brother, 10-year-old Oliver, and numerous friends had customers smiling in the aisles on the Friday (October 28) when the store went into overdrive for the Eltham charity.

The youngsters in their ‘Ready Freddie GO!’ T-shirts helped customers pack their shopping as well as selling the foundation’s wristbands and bread pudding at the exit. Three or four of them were even brave enough to make regular Tannoy announcements about the charity week.

Checkout team leader Emma Payne said: “The children were wonderful and made it a really special day. We had a guess the weight of two pumpkins, cakes at customer services and a lucky dip.

“Customers have been very generous with the collection pots at the tills. I saw one man put in a £10 note.”

Donovan Grant, who has worked for Sainsbury’s for 16 years, grew the pumpkins on his Kidbrooke allotment and Michael Allen made the bread pudding with ingredients from the store.

Freddie’s mum, Deanne Farmer, said: “People have been so generous and I think they loved seeing the kids working so hard.

“Once again Sainsbury’s have been great, they put on so much for us, and people have been so kind in wishing us well.”

- In the evening a quiz night at Shooters Hill Golf Club – won by Fragile but Agile – raised £987.40 for the foundation.

The fundraising was for the Freddie Farmer Foundation, set up in February, to raise £250,000 to set up a specialist physiotherapy centre in SE London for children and young people with cerebral palsy and serious mobility problems. Deanne’s son, Freddie, who was born at 28 weeks with cerebral palsy, weighing just 2lbs 12oz, has been the inspiration behind it.

To find out more, visit www.freddiefarmerfoundation.org.uk Donate online at www.bmycharity.com/freddiefarmer Follow on twitter @readyfreddiego Find on Facebook