TINA Burke’s work helping charities and groups has led to her being nominated for a Proud of Barnsley award.
Tina is Asda Barnsley’s Community Champion and she has been nominated by work mates for her outstanding contribution to the community.
Over the years Tina has managed to help a number of different people raise funds for different organisations and charities. One of her most recent success stories was helping the Gateway Foodbank in Barnsley receive a grant of more than £18,000 through the Asda Foundation.
This money will go towards installing disabled toilets and equipment so that it can be accessed by disabled people.
She helped the people of the foodbank identify how much money they would need to make these changes and how they could apply for funding through Asda.
She has also recently helped two men who have been doing fundraising for the Barnsley Hospice hold a 24 hour cyclethon in the store, held a police crime awareness event for South Yorkshire Police, and helped Mencap’s Take a Bow Theatre Group install disabled toilet access where they rehearse.
Alongside all of this she has also worked with a number of foodbanks, schools, local charities, community centres as well as Barnsley Hospice and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Tina’s general store manager at Asda, Barkat Ali, said: “She has a good working relationship with people in the community and she reaches out to different people to see if she can help them.
“The amount of feedback I get from people is amazing.
“I’m constantly getting feedback about how she’s changing people’s lives.”
Tina, 46, of Lindrick Close, Cudworth, said: “I was shocked but it was nice to be nominated from a community point of view.
“It’s nice to be nominated and nice that somebody feels that I should be nominated for the work I do.”
As an Asda Community Champion her role is to work with charities and people in the local community that reach out for help and to provide them with some form of effective support with whatever they need.
