Top hotels take part in 'Serve Tea to Start a Career' event for charity

7th July 2010, 9:31am

Top hotels such as The Goring, The Royal Garden and Swissotel The Howard recently took part in a 'Serve Tea to Start a Career' event to raise funds for Springboard's Summer School Programme.

Sam Coulstock MIH, customer relationship director of Springboard, said: "We're very grateful to the hotel industry for their terrific support for this simple but effective fund raising activity.

"The idea came about as we wanted to take out much of the hassle of fund-raising for hoteliers. This time, there were no tickets, no tables or seats to buy. They could sit back and help a young person start a career simply by serving Afternoon Tea. Springboard will invest all the proceeds to ensure that students leaving school and college this summer can make an easy transition to the industry."

David Morgan-Hewitt, who as managing director of The Goring, helped to hatch the idea with Springboard chief executive Anne Pierce MBE FIH, commented: "The wonderful thing about this very successful initiative is that none of the hoteliers had to do anything except sign up. Customers just came, drank tea and gobbled up cream cakes while as hoteliers we knew that once again we were helping to support one of our most important industry charities."

Every £500 raised means that one school or college leaver aged 16-25 years will have the chance to complete a three week structured training and work placement programme designed to support their transition from school to work or full-time education. It will also equip them with qualifications linked to a job.

The event took place on Saturday 2 July.

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