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Canteen Members Set to Benefit from New Corolla
MEDIA
RELEASE
3 May
2013
Canteen Members Set to Benefit from
New Corolla, Thanks to Toyota
CanTeen, the
organisation that supports young people living with cancer,
won the use of a brand new Toyota Corolla for three years
after coming in the top 25 most popular charities in
Toyota’s recent “25 Ways to Say
Thanks” campaign.
The charity received the
key to their gleaming new Toyota Corolla yesterday. A total
of 515 charities registered to be in the running for one of
25 cars to use for three years, with nearly 40,000 people
voting for their favourite charity through
Facebook.
The car will be used by CanTeen’s
Auckland branch and will allow members – especially those
for whom transport is an issue – to be involved in weekly
and monthly activities that provide support and
encouragement, and the charitable organisation’s youth
workers can transport others to and from hospital
appointments.
CanTeen’s National Marketing
Manager Kimberley Waters says that the organisation receives
no direct government funding, relying heavily on its own
fundraising efforts with support from the public.
She says members and staff got right in behind the
quest to be one of Toyota’s 25 chosen charities by
encouraging their friends and family to go online and vote
for CanTeen.
“We’re ecstatic that those efforts
ensured that the New Zealand public chose us as one of the
top 25 charities to receive a Corolla, and of course we
thank Toyota for coming up with such a fantastic
initiative,” says Ms Waters.
CanTeen National Marketing Manager, Kimberley Waters receives the key to their new Toyota Corolla from Graham McMullan of Giltrap Toyota with CanTeen staff and members around the car.
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