Green packs a punch for heroes
Charlie Green, co-chief executive of the Office Group and amateur boxer, offered some coaching tips at a charity boxing match held on behalf of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment.
Green was giving a helping hand on 19 May at London’s Cecil Sharp House, NW1, at the event organised by Work It, in support of the PWRR’s welfare work.
Work It is a fitness studio at two of the Office Group’s London sites, Albert House, EC2, and Henry Wood House, W1.
The match raised £7,550.
CIH launches appeal
The Chartered Institute of Housing is encouraging the property industry to join its efforts to raise money for the Prince’s Trust.
President Geraldine Howley has chosen the charity as the focus of the CIH Presidential Appeal and has already raised more than £35,000.
The CIH will dedicate the remainder of this year to supporting the cause.
Almost one million young people in the UK are not in work, education or training – every Premier League football stadium in this country could be filled with unemployed young people and there would still be a queue of 200,000 outside. The Prince’s Trust aims to change this through outreach.
Howley said: “A real passion for me is improving the lives of young people and I hope you will support my chosen charity, the Prince’s Trust.”
Law firm’s new spin on raising money
Property law firm Maples Teesdale was the top fundraiser in an annual spin cycle event, collecting £3,730 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.
The firm surpassed the fundraising efforts of 50 other teams taking part at London’s Royal Exchange on 20 May, which collectively raised £27,000 for the charity.
JDRF funds research into type one diabetes and raises awareness of the disease.
The five-strong Maples Teesdale team covered the equivalent of 26km, each riding for eight minutes, “which is a long time on one of those machines”, according to team captain and partner at the firm, Roger Thornton.
The other team members were Sam Nichols, Chris Wilkinson, Neil Sagoo and Lorna Stevens.
A Welsh mission
Self-described “ordinary bod” Robert Chapman is in the middle of an epic fundraising venture to run around the entire perimeter of Wales.
The director of Cardiff-based Robert Chapman & Company is midway through the undertaking, dubbed the Moon Shadow Wales Challenge, which he is completing by running two marathons every weekend and three if it is a bank holiday.
He began checking off the miles in March and is now 20 marathons down. When complete, he will have covered 1,030 miles in total, running along coastal cliffs, beaches and undulating countryside.
Chapman is raising money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association and has so far raised more than £4,300 towards his £25,000 goal.
Support Chapman’s efforts and read a blog charting his progress here
Teams stop for shops
In a concerted UK-wide fundraising effort, Keller Williams staff downed tools on 12 May to take part in charitable activities as part of the estate agent’s Red Day initiative.
Teams in the South East stopped work to help Spitalfields Crypt Trust in a charity shop challenge, which involved them thinking of innovative ways to increase takings across four charity shops.
In Yorkshire they were collecting money for Levi’s Star, the children’s brain tumour charity.
UK chairman Donald Morris said: “Every team leader, manager, agent and business owner supported by Keller Williams commits to participating in Red Day when they join us. We use it as an opportunity to get to know people we wouldn’t usually work with on a day–to-day basis while supporting a worthwhile cause.”
Posing with pigs
Tim Davies, head of the Bristol office of Colliers International, has joined a band of celebrities in publicly supporting improved welfare standards for pig farming.
Jeremy Irons, Jon Snow, Vivienne Westwood and Sadie Frost have all posed with pigs as part of the campaign by Farms Not Factories. And now Davies, who owns pigs, has gotten in on the act, taking part in his very own photoshoot.
He proudly states that his pigs live a blissful free-range life, and he even delivered piglets on his farm earlier this year.
