Yellow Buses raises money for Julia’s House (l-r) Oliver Wheatley and Fiona Harwood from Yellow Buses and Caroline Attreed from Julia’s House.
Staff at Yellow Buses who paid for the privilege of wearing festive pullovers raised £200 for Julia’s House, the Dorset and Wiltshire children’s charity.
Drivers, engineering and administration staff at the Bournemouth-based business needed little encouragement to wear the gaudy garments.
Caroline Attreed, corporate fundraiser for Julia’s House, visited the bus depot to receive the cheque.
Fiona Harwood from Yellow Buses said the company was committed to helping local charities.
She said: “Our staff are great sports and always do their best for our charity days.
“Julia’s House does fabulous work and gives practical and emotional support for families caring for children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, providing frequent and regular support in their own homes, in the community or at its hospice.”
Caroline said: “Julia’s House is 95% funded by community donations, we only receive five per cent of our funding from the government.
“We want to make it as easy as possible for local families with life-limited children to get the care and support they need, when they need it.
“Yellow Buses have supported us before and we are always grateful for the efforts of their staff.”
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About Yellow Buses:
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 131 buses and 18 coaches with a staff of 414. It carries just under 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset area. Yellow Buses is part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider.
RATP Dev
RATP Dev is a RATP group subsidiary set up in 2002 to export the Group’s operation and maintenance knowhow outside the historic network operated by RATP in the Paris region. RATP Dev now operates in 15 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, China, South Korea, the Philippines, the USA and Brazil). In 2015 RATP Dev generated revenue of more than 1.1 billion euros.
RATP group
With 14 million passengers every day worldwide, RATP group is the fifth largest urban transport operator in the world. The multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region, with its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express network (RER) lines, seven tramway lines, 350 bus lines and shuttle services catering to the region’s two international airports, is the largest of its kind in the world to be managed by a single company.
RATP group can devise, design and implement infrastructure development projects, operate and maintain networks irrespective of the transport mode (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility such as passenger information, electronic ticketing, pricing and customer marketing. The automation of Paris metro’s Line 1, which was completed at the end of 2012, is a world first and once again has demonstrated the ability of RATP group to complete particularly complex projects.
RATP group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 worldwide and in 2015 generated revenue of 5,556 million euros.
