WEST Devon-based charity CHICKS is welcoming its new chief executive officer by persuading him to do a sponsored abseil off the top of the National Marine Aquarium. Roy Endacott, who has had a long term involvement with the charity, has recently been appointed to the post. He said he was delighted to be joining the team at CHICKS and thought the abseil would be ?a wonderful inauguration for me and, even better than that, I will be raising money for CHICKS in the process?. The abseil is part of the charity?s ?Get your boss to jump off a building? event, which will take place on Saturday, September 22 at the aquarium. It is open to staff and managers of all businesses, and a minimum of £50 sponsorship for CHICKS needs to be raised. CHICKS provides free respite breaks to disadvantaged children from across the UK at its two specially equipped centres in the West Country. Over the next five years it aims to increase the number of children it helps to 1,000 a year, funded by the Making Memories Appeal which Mr Endacott will be heading. For more information or to enter the abseil, call Nicola Bean on 01822 811108 or email [email protected]">[email protected] Joining Mr Endacott in the abseil will be Ginsters? operations director, Ray Hanly, who is being sponsored by staff at the Callington factory. He has set himself the goal of raising £1,500 for the charity.
