Wake-up call for LHTBI
15/05/2019
At present, LHTBI supports almost 50 former leather-sector workers in the UK with payments every quarter, a heating allowance in the winter and a hamper at Christmas.
At the 2019 lunch, LHTBI president, Simon Yarwood, said: “It’s right that LHTBI should support former industry workers who have fallen on hard times in their later years, but we had something of a wake-up call last year when one UK leather manufacturing group, Clayton’s, went into liquidation. The people who work on the tannery floor in our industry are not wealthy and if we can step in in times of need and help them pay the mortgage or pay the rent, we definitely should.”
Fundraising ideas for the year ahead include a sponsored bike-ride, which LHTBI has held a number of times in the past, and a tennis tournament.
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