In addition to the services EATTA provides to its membership, it conducts a charity collection every year at its Annual Dinner held at Kings College, Cambridge in September:

Recent Collections have raised:

2010 – Alzheimer’s Society  (£565)

2010 – Timber Trade Benevolent Society (TTBS)  (£565)

2011 –  Help for Heroes (£1360)

2012 – Chavasse House Colchester (Re-hab for help the heroes) (£1802)

2012 – Essex Wildlife Trust (£500)

2013 – Royal National Lifeboat Association (RNLI) (£2175)

2014 – EACH (East Anglian Children’s Hospice) (£2,415)

2015 – EAAA (East Anglian Air Ambulance) (£3,010)

2016 – East Anglia Prostate Cancer Appeal (£3460)

2017 – Stephen Hawking Foundation (£3260)

2018 – Hearing Dogs in East Anglia (£3075)

2019 – Dementia & Alzheimer’s Charity East Anglia ( £3450)

2021 – Cogwheel Counselling (£2,500)

2022 – Headway (£3,360)

2023 – Cambridge City Foodbank (£3,220)

2024 – Timber Trades Benevolent Society (TTBS) (£310)

2024 – Jimmy’s Cambridge (£3,800)

2025 – EATTA Golf Day for TTBS (£4,420)

2025 – Project 21 (£3,815)

2026 – Members are invited to submit recommendations to the Secretary of potential recipients. These must comply with a simple criteria: They must be registered in East Anglia, or have operations based or linked to our region and must of course be a registered charity or note worthy cause linked to our Industry. The Association would welcome and consider any other similar projects promoting the use of timber and allied products.

EATTA TTBS APPEAL

We would like to ask all Members who have knowledge of anyone in our region who has worked in our Industry for over 10 years, regardless of age or level who maybe in need of some of the benefits / services that the TTBS can offer.