Stamford Supports Ukraine team up with Colsterworth firm to create new stretchers for injured troops

A fundraising tombola and a company which makes curtains for lorries are helping to supply stretchers for wounded soldiers.

Stamford Supports Ukraine held a fundraising tombola at the town’s Morrisons store on Saturday (April 27).

It raised £528 which will go towards a new design of stretchers that volunteers are making in Stamford for frontline troops in Ukraine.

They have designed by Mark Lawrence, of Colsterworth-based The Side Curtain Company, using off-cuts of material which is used to make side-curtains on lorries.

A group of Ukrainian ladies based in the Stamford area has been making stretchers, helped by local volunteers.

To sponsor a stretcher, or make a donation, click here.

“It’s a great use of a product which would otherwise go into landfill,” said SSU’s Anne-Marie Hammill.

“These stretchers have been very well received by troops on the frontline and we continue to make as many as our volunteers can and get them shipped out.”