It’s the time of giving here at Crown Oil

Crown Oil wouldn’t be where we are today without the incredible people in our thriving local community. That’s why we’re proud to support our region throughout the year and especially over the Christmas period, where families are in the greatest need.

Last year for our Christmas appeal we supported Mission Christmas and collected toys for disadvantaged children in our area, along with businesses and individuals across the area. For Christmas 2023 our Charity Committee made the decision to give our support to smaller local charities that we hadn’t worked with before, which led us to Home-Start.

Home-Start have been supporting families across the Pennines for nearly 25 years, helping in Rochdale, Heywood, Middleton, and Bury with the belief that a secure and happy childhood is key to giving children a good start in life and helping them to achieve their full potential!

We share Home-Start’s belief and we approached them to see how we could help. Home-start suggested that we could donate pyjamas for the children that they look after to help them keep warm over the winter and needless to say, we leaped at the idea. To ensure that no child went without, teams across the business managed to donate a pyjama set to each of the 227 children!

But that wasn’t all – during the initial planning Home-Start revealed to us that shockingly, some of the children they support had never tried chocolate as a result of each families struggles. So, in addition to the pyjamas, each child received a selection box from the Crown Oil team.

Home-Start were absolutely thrilled with the contributions we were able to provide and we’d like to thank all our staff that took part and donated. This has made us incredibly proud of the kind nature within the Crown Oil team and we look forward to all the good deeds the future has in store for us.

We look forward to supporting Home-Start and our entire community in the future. You can find out more about our community work here.