Malvern and Community First Lend Local Support

As part of a continuing commitment to support local communities at its sites around the world, Malvern Instruments has teamed up with Community First, a charity local to Herefordshire and Worcestershire which helps frontline voluntary organisations, social enterprises and communities to achieve their aims and ambitions by providing, for example, specialist advice, information, business coaching and training.

While Malvern will make a regular financial contribution as a partner to Community First over the next five years, the real potential of the longer-term partnership will be to enable joint working in a number of areas with the Charity in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

“Since entering into discussions with Community First it has become clear that our two organisations share similar values. I am very pleased to be establishing a relationship that will have the longevity, depth and commitment needed to deliver in a number of ways,” said Malvern’s Managing Director Paul Walker. ”As well as direct cash support, Malvern will provide practical advice, material assistance and expertise, and we will actively promote, encourage and enable our employees to provide their individual support to the work of Community First and the organisations it works with. We will also be communicating the value and benefits of the strategic partnership to encourage other local organisations to consider similar arrangements.”

Thanking Malvern for the commitment to the partnership, Richard Quallington, Chief Executive of Community First in the two counties added: “Community First exists to help create sustainable communities and thriving local organisations, including social enterprises and co-operatives. As sources of funding for voluntary and community organisations become increasingly more difficult to access, we see this kind of long-term arrangement, with the ability to tap into the skills and resources within partner companies, as an exciting development in the evolution of our work.”