A well known UK estate agency has pledged £50,000 to help the growing Ukrainian refugee crisis.
Brown & Co - the 13-branch agency covering the East of England, Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber - is also pledging to help find jobs and accommodation within their own and client businesses for up to 100 Ukrainian nationals who want to live and work in this country – if permitted to do so by the British government.
Brown & Co has had an office in Poland since 1998 as well as friends and colleagues involved in the farming industry in the Ukraine.
Managing partner Charles Whitaker says: “We as a partnership have been deeply concerned about the unfolding horror on our doorstep in Ukraine. We have Ukrainian friends and colleagues who live and work there – this past week we have had calls with some of them on the ground, and they were all very concerned indeed for the safety of their staff and families.
“We feel we should be doing something significant to help as we watch the disaster unfold.
“This is a country not so different from ours and people who thought they wanted a future like us. They are being driven over, bombed and shot by a Russian regime that clearly threatens all of us in the West – they just happen to be in the way on the front line.”
Brown&Co - which has some 260 staff and 34 partners working across the agricultural, rural, commercial and residential property sectors - has been heavily engaged in Poland for more than 25 years and the donation will go to the NGO Polish Humanitarian Action fund specifically to help the Ukrainian refugees arriving in Poland.
Other agency efforts to help the Ukrainian humanitarian crisis feature in Estate Agent Today’s regular Agents Do Charity slot today, Friday.
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So proud to work for Brown & Co!
What an amazing pledge! Christ alive I love our industry!
Fantastic - never mind people born here who would love a job.
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