The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A Spalding based company hit by floods recently has donated £10,000 to charity and donated cakes to fire crews as a thank you for their help.
Bakkavor is donating £10,000 to The Fire Fighters Charity and delivering cream cakes to local fire and rescue stations by way of a thank you to Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service for their significant support.
The heavy rain caused disruption to Bakkavor’s local site, but thankfully Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue were quickly on the scene to help pump the water away so that operations could resume as soon as possible.
As well as the donation to Charity, Bakkavor have also organised some delicious cakes for the fire services in Spalding, Bourne, Holbeach, Crowland, Gainsborough, Grantham, Stamford, Kirton and Donington.
Kuldip Bains, business director for Bakkavor Salads, said: “The quick response from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue was fantastic and we can’t thank them enough for their help to ensure our people and our operations were safe following the floods.
“We hope our donation to charity can make a real difference to the fire service community.”
Lee Marsh, station manager at Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, said: “During the evening of Tuesday 16th and the morning of Wednesday 17th August, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue received a huge amount of calls about heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding in Market Rasen, Louth and the Spalding area. Our crews worked tirelessly to help not just the residents protect their property, but also the businesses in those communities to ensure that they could continue trading.
“The flooding at Bakkavor was challenging due to the volume of water needing to be moved from the site to the River Welland. However, we are fortunate to have a High Volume Pump based in Lincolnshire that is ideal for this type of incident, pumping 7000 litres of floodwater away per minute. We were able to use this to great effect and allow Bakkavor to return to ‘business as usual’ much quicker than if we used our conventional pumps on the appliances.
“As the charity co-ordinator for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, I’m overwhelmed by this generous donation by the management team at Bakkavor and I want to thank them on behalf of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue and The Fire Fighters Charity.
“This donation will go towards supporting serving and retired firefighters and their immediate families throughout their lives.”
