Staff at RNAS Culdrose have it all wrapped up after helping Helston-based charity ShelterBox store a batch of blankets.
On a visit to the Helston headquarters of ShelterBox, Captain Phillip Thicknesse, commanding officer of Culdrose, spoke to founder Tom Henderson.
Mr Henderson explained that space in the ShelterBox warehouse was running out, following the growing demand for aid increasing the quantity of items used in the boxes.
Knowing that there was space available at the Culdrose base, Captain Thicknesse offered temporary storage for a batch of blankets that had jut arrived.
A batch of 15,000 blankets duly arrived at the air station and were received by willing volunteers from the stores logistics department, who stacked them away in a corner of one of the accommodation stores hangars. Now safely packed away, the blankets await the call from ShelterBox to be shipped to the next disaster, wherever that may be.
Over the years RNAS Culdrose and the Royal Navy have worked closely with ShelterBox, such as in January 2005, following the tsunami in South East Asia, when crewmembers from HMS Chatham helped build tents and rebuild shelters for the local people made homeless by the disaster.
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