Hollybank Trust is thrilled to announce that Accu has chosen the Trust as their Charity of the Year, an initiative that sees business support individual charities by highlighting the work they do and helping to raise funds for them.

This new partnership will see Accu play an active role in volunteering activities at the Trust, such as putting on their gardening gloves to help with the upkeep of the gardens and fostering new connections with pupils at Hollybank School, which will help them to practice and improve their social skills. A group of team members from Accu also attended the Trust’s annual Celebration Day on 9th July, an annual event that invites care teams and internal staff at the charity, parents of residents at Hollybank, charity partners, and supporters to a day of music, games, and refreshments at the main site of the charity in Mirfield.

Team members from Accu and Hollybank Trust will also prompt open-ended conversations with one another, sharing their own knowledge and best practice on internal wellbeing initiatives, how to implement and uphold internal values, and how they can work ‘better together’, which is central to all Hollybank Trust partnerships.

Accu will benefit from disability awareness training and time spent in Hollybank homes, gaining first-hand experience of the ways in which different disabilities affect people. This enhanced understanding and deeper insight will be gained through Accu team members attending activity days with young people and adults at Hollybank Trust, and through older pupils from Hollybank School who are looking to gain work experience attending invaluable work experience days at Accu.