Altran Praxis supports local charity with donation
Staff working at Bath-based business Altran Praxis have donated £1,540 to local charity, Dorothy House Hospice Care. The donation was made by the iFACTS project team at Altran Praxis, which works with NATS, the UK’s leading air traffic services provider to develop advanced software for air traffic controllers. Altran Praxis and NATS staff made the donation. Altran Praxis representative Anna Mascetti recently visited Dorothy House to present the cheque.
Dorothy House Hospice Care is a local Bath charity which provides free services in the community and at the hospice. It offers care to patients and their families facing life threatening illness, death or bereavement, who have problems which require specialist support. Dorothy House Hospice Care will use the donation to provide expert support and advice on pain and symptom relief, offer physiotherapy and complementary therapy sessions, run creative projects for day patients and give support to family and carers.
"I'm delighted to receive the cheque from the iFACTS team at Altran Praxis and to show them some of the work that their donation has helped to fund,” said Katrina Sudbury, Director of Fundraising and Communications at Dorothy House Hospice Care. “As we only receive about a quarter of our funding from the NHS, we rely greatly on fundraising initiatives like this by local companies, to enable us to continue to give our free care to more than 700 families every day."
Jason Glew, project lead, iFACTS, commented: “As a Bath-based business, the team wanted to use this donation to support a charity in our local area. Dorothy House Hospice Care provides round the clock care and support to local families and we’re extremely pleased that we are able to support their ongoing work with this donation.”
About Altran Praxis
Altran Praxis is a specialist systems and software house, focused on the engineering of systems with demanding safety, security or innovation requirements. Altran Praxis leads the world in specific areas of advanced systems engineering and innovation such as: ultra low defect software engineering, Human Machine Interface (HMI), safety engineering for complex or novel systems and tools (such as SPARK) /methods for systems engineering. It offers clients a range of services including turnkey systems development, consultancy, training and R&D. Key market sectors are aerospace and defence, rail, nuclear, air traffic management, automotive, medical and security. The company operates globally with active projects in the US, Asia and Europe. The headquarters of Altran Praxis are in Bath (UK) with offices in Sophia Antipolis, London, Paris, Loughborough and Bangalore. Altran Praxis is an expertise centre within, and wholly owned by, Altran which is a global leader in innovation engineering and employs 17,000 staff across the world.
www.altran-praxis.com
About NATS
- NATS handled 2.2 million flights in 2009, covering the UK and eastern North Atlantic and carried more than 200 million passengers safely through some of the busiest and most complex airspace in the world.
- NATS provides air traffic control from its centres at Swanwick, Hampshire and Prestwick, Ayrshire.
- NATS also provides air traffic control services at 15 of the nation's major airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow, together with air traffic services at Gibraltar Airport.
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