Muirend business donates masks to front-line workers

Paul Hodgkiss Designs, which manufactures bespoke wooden furniture, donated its spare FFP3 masks, which staff use in its workshop, to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Owner, Paul Hodgkiss, is now urging owners of similar businesses which also use masks, to consider donating spare masks.

Paul has already started collecting spare masks, after local businesses offered to make donations, and donated them to three hospitals, a hospice, district nurses, local GPs and police officers.

Respecting social distancing rules has meant Paul has had to be creative with his drop-offs and pick-ups, whether it has meant lobbing the masks to people two metres away or picking them off a rusty penny farthing.

“The relief at the delivery of such an item keeps raising the bar on my resolve,” Paul said.

“There will be, and are, masks in storage areas of people’s businesses, now shut, but easily opened.

“The aim is to make people aware that they can hand them in to any medical centre, hospital, police station, care home, hospice near to them.”

To find out more, visit www.paulhodgkissdesigns.co.uk/protective-ffp3-mask-appeal, or visit www.facebook.com/PaulHodgkissDesigns.