Mecca Bingo Supports Charity

Generous bingo giant Mecca Bingo has just launched a new campaign to help young wheelchair users.

The Harlow based bingo hall is planning to exchange left-over holiday money into funds for their chosen charity Whizz-Kidz. 
The ‘Currency For Kids Scheme’ works by asking people to donate their foreign holiday coins to the club, which will be forwarded to Mecca’s charity of the year.

Bernie Dullaghan, general manager of Mecca’s Harl0ow bingo hall said, ‘Whenever you come back from a summer holiday it always seems like you have a pocket full of leftover coins.
 
The banks won’t take them but, until the end of September, we’re accepting any foreign or old coins as a donation for Whizz-Kidz.  All money will go to deserving kids in the region.’

Mecca ran the same campaign last year and managed to raise a staggering £280,000 for Whizz-Kidz.

Ruth Owen, Chief Executive of Whizz-Kidz said, ‘We are absolutely thrilled with the enthusiasm and inventiveness of all the Mecca team and club members in raising money to support young wheelchair users independence.’

‘Disabled children stand virtually no chance of getting a powered wheelchair on the NHS. Through Mecca Bingo’s funding of powered and manual wheelchairs and training, more children now have the opportunities previously denied to them. Please help us raise even more money to make real differences to young lives.’