COVID-19: Bentley supports community with PPE and food

Bentley Motors has extended its ‘Be Safe’ health and safety programme to look after the local community in Cheshire during the coronavirus crisis. The company is using its skills to 3D print over 30,000 face-shields and supply them to the Cheshire care sector, including care homes, the NHS and other local community services.

The carmaker is also donating personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves, facemasks, safety glasses and seat covers.

The 3D face-shields, fully manufactured at Bentley’s factory in Crewe, will supply the Cheshire care sector, which includes all 95-care homes in the area, the NHS and other local community services.

Bentley has also provided a range of urgently needed PPE items to local health services. This includes a donation of 20,000 pairs of disposable gloves, 10,000 facemasks to the local care sector and 1,800 disposable seat covers to NHS primary care and community services.

The company is also extending its Bentley ‘Meals on 22 inch Wheels’ service, where employees volunteer to deliver food and essential items in the community.

Commenting on the support efforts, Dr. Astrid Fontaine, Bentley’s Board Member for People, Digitalisation and IT, said: “This is such an incredibly difficult time for everyone and with our number one priority being the safety and wellbeing of our colleagues, their families and our communities, we are determined to help as best we can. We are utilising our world-leading engineering and manufacturing expertise, the remarkable vehicles and resources we have available to us, and also our extraordinary colleagues, who are going to such efforts to help the local Cheshire area and the healthcare professions, locally and nationally, who continue to perform such heroics.”