Three staff members working for Praesepe’s Cashino brand of adult gaming centres were honoured for their fund-raising activities in aid of the charity, Children’s Integrated Playschemes (CHIPS).
The charity offers play and social opportunities for children with additional needs. Praesepe has raised over £650,000 which was used to purchase 120 specialised wheelchairs for children and young people with severe mobility problems. The three were honoured in a special award presentation held at the company’s head office in Milton Keynes, UK.
Mas Bibi, venue manager at Cashino Bedford, was named CHIPS charity champion, helping to raise more than £3,400 in 2016. Christian Cirlan, venue manager at Cashino Lewisham, London, who raised £3,300, and Diane Welstead, venue manager at Cashino Acton, London, who raised more than £3,000, also received charity champion awards.
Mas Bibi said: “It’s a great privilege to be the CHIPS charity champions for the company. I couldn’t have raised such an amount without the support of my team and of course the wonderful Cashino customers, who were incredibly generous with their donations.”
Praesepe CEO Nick Harding added: “Mas, Diane and Christian have done an outstanding job raising funds for CHIPS, motivating customers and colleagues to donate through a wide range of imaginative initiatives. Thanks to the hard work, the compassion and the dedication of the entire team at Praesepe we succeeded in raising a further £150,000 in 2016, a sum which takes the overall total raised for CHIPS to more than £650,000."
