TM Factors and TMD Friction offer helping hand to local community
TM Factors Hereford is helping its local community pull through the difficult times by carrying out a number of goodwill gestures for individuals and local charities supporting vulnerable people.
The motor factor is going above and beyond, supporting food banks and assisting charities and is calling on the wider motor trade to boost its efforts further.
The business also organised a collaborative effort to help a front line nurse at Hereford City hospital, whose car had broken down and needed a new clutch, tyres, pads and discs. Enlisting the support of Eurocars Autocare Garage to provide the repairs, TMD Friction to supply the pads and discs, Chrispins Paint and Bodyshop the gearbox, Valeo the clutch and John Wood Tyres to provide the new tyres, this incredible effort successfully got the nurse’s car back on the road, ready for her night shift.
Melissa Portman-Lewis, TM Factors director, has also raised over £2100 for local food banks across Hereford, Leominster and Ledbury, who are currently experiencing limited resources. Fund raising will continue every week during the coronavirus pandemic and Melissa is using the monies raised to purchase everyday goods to help families in need. You can donate to Melissa’s fund raising page by clicking here.
Melissa said: “I have been overwhelmed by the kindness shown by local people and the motor trade and I want to continue this combined effort to go further and offer more support to those that need it most. The motor trade is making a real positive impact to people’s lives, using its expertise, logistics and generosity to provide a solution for people during this extremely difficult time.”
The local NHS is also benefiting from the use of TM Factors vans, with voluntary drivers delivering prescriptions where needed.
TMD Friction has also assisted TM Factors with the supply of at least 300 Easter Eggs, which will go to the food banks and Dixie’s COVID-19 SOS in Hereford, a charity set up to help the local community during the pandemic, as well as feeding many vulnerable individuals in the local community with a hot lunch.