Principality Building Society is helping service users at Bangor homeless hostel, Pendinas, dress to impress.
Wales’ largest building society has donated a number of uniforms, which can be used by residents when they attend job interviews.
The Society is also helping Pendinas with its ongoing gardening project, which all residents participate in, by donating equipment and plants.
Else Lyon, Scheme Manager at Pendinas said:
“The gardening project has become really important to everyone here at Pendinas. The service users have transformed the garden and have spent lots of time planting and tending to our own veg and fruit which we are able to use in our recipes here and promote both cooking and healthy eating.”
“The help from Principality has come at a great time as spring is in the air. This will help us to buy more planters, compost and seeds and get preparing more foods for next season.”
Principality and Pendinas are both involved in Business in the Community’s ‘Seeing is Believing’ initiative that offers a range of support types to local community groups and charities.
Pendinas, a north Wales Housing managed scheme has been working with a number of local businesses (alongside St Mary’s hostel in Bangor) that have all shown their commitment and support through a range of innovative and practical initiatives.
Kelly Williams, Principality Building Society’s Bangor branch manager, said:
“We are proud to be at the heart of our communities and we wanted to provide support to this vital service for the people in Bangor. We hope that the gardening equipment will help residents to grow their own cheap and nutritious food, whilst helping them to learn more about cooking and being more self-sufficient.”
“Job interviews can be really daunting, especially without the right clothing, so we were delighted to be able to help them by donating our uniforms and we wish them the best of luck with their interviews.”
Principality has supported a variety of similar causes in the past year, including Bangor under 10s rugby team and the netball team at a school in Mold.
