Microgaming Funds New Community Project

The online gambling software provider, Microgaming, continues to give back to the community through its PlayItFoward initiative.

Microgaming announced that it would be providing three years of funding to the Isle of Man based Mobile Family Library.

This will allow the Family Library to keep its vehicles on the road for several more years, which travel around the island bringing books, CDs and other material to people who cannot physically reach a library.

Microgaming has committed to providing #10,000 each year to help the Douglas-based Family Library continue its important work.

Microgaming Plays It Forward

Several years ago, Microgaming formed its PlayItForward initiative, committing to help a number of charities and important causes on the Isle of Man where its headquarters are based.

Claire Coleman, speaking for Microgaming about its latest Mobile Library funding project, said that the library is a wonderful facility but added that keeping its vehicles on the road is very costly.

"We wanted to make a long-term commitment to the Family Library to ensure that people keep benefiting from the service," said Coleman. "The team at the Mobile Library do a fantastic job, one that makes a real difference to the island's residents."

Those residents who cannot even make it out to meet the mobile libraries - the biggest of which is equipped with 2,600 books - are visited by volunteers who get to know their reading preferences and take the books directly to their homes.

Microgaming Donation Makes Big Impact

The Mobile Library confirmed that Microgaming's three-year funding commitment made a big impact on the future of this initiative.

"We keep hundreds of people regularly stocked with exciting reading material and also hold social sessions where they can get together to chat about books, poems and other artifacts supplied by the library," said Sandra Henderson speaking for the Mobile Library.

"This donation from Microgaming will help us enormously with the cost of running and servicing the vehicles for the next three years," she added.