East Cheshire Hospice Christmas Tree Collection

EDM number 749 in 2007-08, proposed by Nicholas Winterton on 22/01/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Charities, Community care and Health services.

That this House congratulates the 150 volunteers, including Hugh Morgan, Sophia Morgan, Caroline Wilson, Dorian Belt, Andrew Robertson and organiser Richard Raymond, for the East Cheshire Hospice 2008 Christmas Tree Collection carried out on the weekend of 12th and 13th January 2008; notes that this valuable and worthwhile environmental initiative raised well in excess of £30,000 this year for the East Cheshire Hospice; further notes that more than £100,000 has been raised since the Christmas tree collection service was first suggested and established in 1999 by the Chapman family of Prestbury; expresses its thanks to Macclesfield Borough Council, its staff and volunteers for their continuing co-operation and assistance with the scheme; further expresses its particular thanks to two individual Macclesfield Borough Council employees who gave their overtime payments to the fund; regrets that the East Cheshire Hospice cannot claim Gift Aid on the monies collected by the annual scheme; and calls on the Government to amend the Gift Aid rules to permit payments and donations in respect of such collection services to be eligible for Gift Aid.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.