Focused on developing and supporting the voluntary sector in and around the borough of Basingstoke and Deane, Basingstoke Voluntary Action will be using the hand sanitiser in its work to help support vulnerable residents across the district.
The idea to produce hand sanitiser to help support local charities came from WES’ managing director Kevin Wheeler. Despite WES still continuing to provide industries across the country with dosing equipment, Wheeler devised a plan to adapt existing skills and equipment to manufacture and bottle the hand sanitiser.
He comments: “During this time, it is important that we all do what we can to help fight this disease. The hand sanitiser idea came about because chemical handling and metering accurate quantities is what we do and so it seemed obvious to use the skills we have across departments to produce something we were unable to purchase.
“Initially, it was intended for our own key worker employees, but we quickly realised that we could share it out to other deserving causes. It has been well received by the team at Basingstoke Voluntary Action and we are aiming to deliver more in the coming weeks”