Birmingham’s biggest taxi and private hire vehicle operator, A2B Radio Cars, has donated £500 to the Solihull branch of Guide Dogs.
A2B Radio Cars, a regional hub of the UK’s fastest growing taxi and private hire technology platform Veezu, stepped in to donate to the worthy cause through their new community support programme ‘Funded by Veezu’. The programme is a way in which local not-for-profit initiatives can apply for grants between £500 and £1000.
Graham Hoof, Regional Operations Director of Veezu in the Midlands, said: “It is so important to us to work with charities at a hyperlocal level, so we were really pleased when the team at Solihull Guide Dogs reached out to us. This is such an important cause and I’m very glad that we were able to make the donation towards their fundraising target.”
Helen Perkins, Volunteer for Solihull Guide Dogs, said: “We were fundraising in our local Morrisons when we met someone from A2B Radio Cars who said that if we didn’t reach our £1,000 target we should get in touch with them via their Funded by Veezu scheme. We did reach our target on the day but with our fundraising goal for the year set at £30,000, every little helps.
“It costs over £55,000 to raise and support a guide dog from birth to retirement so every penny we can raise through collection days and events is vital.” Guide Dogs relies on donations to support people in the UK living with sight loss.
It takes around 24 months to train a dog to give freedom and independence to someone with sight loss.
