The Yellow Buses/Daily Echo Carbon Stoppers initiative gave money to AOK Rucksack, a charity that helps the homeless. (l-r) Sally Harvey (charity founder) Fiona Harwood of the Yellows, Roger Harvey from the charity and Ollie Wheatley and Jenni Wilkinson of the Yellows.
A new charity that helps get homeless people off the streets and back into the community has received a cheque from the Yellow Buses/Daily Echo Carbon Stoppers initiative.
AOK Rucksack Appeal operates across Dorset and the New Forest and was founded last year by Sally Harvey who has worked with the homeless for more than a decade.
She and husband Roger accepted a cheque for £200 from Fiona Harwood of the Yellows.
Carbon Stoppers is a joint Yellow Buses /Daily Echo initiative that has handed out over £15,000 to charities and good causes since its launch in 2008.
Each week the Yellows hold a ‘Thank You Thursday’ when every trip taken by passengers on the day contributes to a separately administered Community Chest.
Sally said the charity has grown swiftly and includes many volunteers including councillors, a GP, psychiatric nurse, solicitor, art therapist, yoga teacher and a nutritionist.
She said: “We open doors to the homeless and we’re very grateful to Yellow Buses for the donation.
“Every penny will go towards getting homeless people off the streets and back into the community.”
Fiona Harwood said: “Homelessness is a real problem in our communities and people such as Sally make a huge difference.
“She has ten years’ experience with the homeless and knows what it takes to get the people the practical help they require.”
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About Yellow Buses:
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 137 buses and 18 coaches with a staff of 450. It carries more than 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset area. The Yellows are part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider. www.bybus.co.uk
About RTP Dev:
RATPDev is the RATP Group subsidiary established in 2002 to export the group’s operation and maintenance know-how outside the historic network operated by RATP in the Paris region. RATP Dev now operates in 14 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the USA, Brazil, India, China, South Korea and the Philippines). In 2015, RATP Dev is scheduled to generate revenue exceeding €1 billion.
About RATP Group:
With nearly 14 million daily passengers worldwide, RATP Group is the fifth largest urban transport operator in the world. With its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express rail lines, seven tramway lines and 350 bus lines, the multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region is the largest 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 mode of transport (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility (including passenger information, remote ticketing, pricing and customer marketing). The automation of Paris metro line 1, which was completed at the end of 2012 as a world first, once again demonstrated the ability of RATP Group to implement particularly complex projects.
RATP Group exports its know-how all over the world; in engineering through Systra, its subsidiary jointly owned with SNCF, in operations and maintenance via its RATP Dev subsidiary and in innovative services to promote mobility through its IXXI subsidiary.
RATP Group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 employees worldwide and in 2013 generated revenue of €5.14 billion.
