Oceanair International supports supports The British Red Cross. Money raised will be spent on a range of virtal services both in the UK and overseas.

The British Red Cross and Oceanair International Corporate Movers have combined to increase the flow of much needed stock donations, while providing expats on the move with an easy way to pass on their unwanted personal and household effects to charity.

Donations of stock from the public are the lifeblood of The British Red Cross charity shops. The recent economic downturn has brought more customers into the shops but fewer donations. In this respect the partnership with Oceanair International Movers, that brings in a steady stream of stock, could not have come at a better time.

The British Red Cross is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the world’s largest independent humanitarian organisation. It is volunteer-led, helping people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. The British Red Cross enables vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, the Red Cross help people recover and move on with their lives.

Oceanair International wanted to support a charity as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy and devised an economic way of doing this while also supplying a solution to an age-old problem for international assignees: what to do with unwanted household goods?

No longer will international transferees have to leave unwanted or unneeded items in their lofts, with family or pay for small storage consignments during their short or long term assignments. Oceanair International’s packing crew will collect unwanted items and deliver them to the British Red Cross free of charge.

Unique labels in the shops have also been arranged between the British Red Cross and Oceanair to better track the quality and donations from this special partnership.

This partnership has only been going for nine months but already almost thirty lorry loads of re-usable, re-sellable and recyclable items have been delivered to the British Red Cross by Oceanair International Movers from generous customers and employees. The donated items are currently selling in seven Red Cross shops across London and have already raised thousands of pounds for the charity.

Both Oceanair International and the British Red Cross expect the success to continue, and look forward to raising thousands more in the future.

The money raised from this partnership will be spent by the British Red Cross on a range of vital services both in the UK and overseas. This could be anything from first aid training, emergency response operations, tracing missing family, medical loan services or elderly care in the UK; right through to helping those affected by recent large-scale disasters in Haiti, Pakistan and New Zealand.

For further information on the Red Cross please visit www.redcross.org.uk

To contact Oceanair International please visit www.oceanairinternational.com