The Printing Charity has helped nearly 1750 people connected to the print industry in the past year, providing welfare support to 820 people, including 200 who were made redundant, and supporting 830 people through its education and partnership activities.
The figures were reported by chairman Jon Wright at the charity’s 192nd Annual Luncheon, which took place at Stationers’ Hall on 14 November.
Mr Wright also spoke about the emotional support the charity provides over the phone to beneficiaries and how this year it has started to work with industry partners to offer practical and emotional support to their employees.
This year’s guest speaker was Sir Peter Bazalgette, non-executive chair of ITV. In his speech, Sir Peter outlined how two of the nineteenth century’s most prominent figures, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, weren’t just presidents of The Printing Charity but also had links to his great-great-grandfather, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, lending him money to build London’s sewage system and effectively ending London’s cholera epidemic.
