Whitemeadow team takes part in charity abseil

Brave employees at Whitemeadow Furniture took part in a charity abseil this past week (26 March) to raise money for our Step 2 It fundraising campaign.

Whitemeadow decided to hold a charity abseil, whereby everyone at Whitemeadow was encouraged to donate a pound and vote for the manager of their choice to do the abseil.

After Alan Price, head of production, was voted the ‘winner’, the company opened the event up to anyone wanting to join Alan and pay an additional donation to the charity. Whitemeadow raised a total of £600, which will be matched by The Furniture Makers’ Company. 

On the day, eight members of the team got together at the 80ft Millers Dale Bridge in the Peak District, above the river Wye, on a gloriously sunny Saturday morning, accompanied by friends and family.

In addition to Alan, the members of the team that took part were Karen Clarridge, head of HR; Justin Hewitt, head of transport; Zehra Gezer, head of marketing; Vicky Shetliffe, production manager; Drew Denning, business data co-ordinator; Megan Spencer, post-delivery support assistant; and Georgina Lappage, production quality inspector.

Zehra Gezer, head of marketing, said: “We wanted to do something fun and a bit different to our usual bake sales and dress-down days. We thought this would be something that everyone could get behind and our managers were great sports to put themselves forward for the challenge.

“Although most of us don’t like heights, we had a fantastic morning with the team at Derbyshire Abseiling, everyone has enjoyed pushing themselves out of their comfort zone, and even some of the kids joined in. It helped that the weather was so nice as we had to postpone the last event due to snow, and the tea and cake at the café at the end rounded off a great morning.”