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Brighouse-based parcel service lends support to Blue Peter Send a Smile appeal
FREE nationwide drop off and next day deliveries will be offered by a parcel service backing a Blue Peter campaign.
Brighouse-based APC Pass the Parcel is helping the BBC TV children's show Send a Smile appeal in aid of Operation Smile, which helps transform the lives of children with facial deformities.
This year, Blue Peter has set a challenge to children throughout the UK to turn unwanted tee-shirts into colourful hospital gowns for Operation Smile patients.
The goal is to make 20,000 gowns – each worth about 3 – saving 60,000 which will pay for over 300 operations to repair cleft lips and cleft palates.
The finished gowns will be dropped off at convenient collection points – including local APC Overnight depots, Currys and PC World – for next day delivery to Operation Smile in London.
Since 1982, Operation Smile has provided free facial reconstructive surgery to more than 135,000 children.
Quentin Abel, chairman of APC Overnight, said: "The appeal requires partners who have a nationwide presence to act as collection points, and so we are delighted that our network of depots will provide the ideal solution."
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