Bidwells’ senior partner Patrick McMahon, and Ricard Pilsworth head of Cambridge, have completed a 100-mile journey over two days using more than 50 different modes of transport.
The pair, who are taking part in Bidwells’ Grand Challenge, travelled from the firm’s office in Oxford to its Cambridge HQ by means of horseback, punt, fire engine, JCB, wheelbarrow, miniature train, and combine harvester to name just a few.
The challenge, a company-wide charity fundraising initiative marking the firm’s 180 years in business, is asking staff to raise £180 each in aid of the charities Maggie’s Centres and Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance. The amount raised so far is £40,050.
A team from Barton Willmore in Manchester didn’t let bad weather dampen their fundraising efforts when plans to complete the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge was cancelled.
Instead, the resilient fundraisers and clients from Muse Developments and Bloor Homes put on their waterproofs and walked 22 miles in 9 hours, from Deansgate train station, Manchester to Whaley Bridge, in Derbyshire. Their determination raised close to £2,000 for children’s charity Wood Street Mission, and homeless charity The Wellspring.
Capital & Regional, the owner of The Mall Walthamstow where a recent fire took place, has partnered with retail industry benevolent charity retailTRUST to launch an appeal to support businesses and staff employed at The Mall who have been impacted by the incident.
retailTRUST has set up a Just Giving page and pledged £25,000. Capital & Regional has also donated the same amount. A contribution of £10,000 from Waltham Forest Council has brought the starting amount gifted to £60,000. The Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust (FTCT) is also supporting the campaign and offering its services to The Mall community.
A project undertaken by Acorn Group to refurbish the library at St Saviour’s School in Lewisham in 2018 has flourished into a locally recognised children’s book recycling scheme, called the Acorn Book Club. The positive impact from the initiative has seen the Acorn corporate and social responsibility (CSR) team receive a flood of proposals submitted for them from other local primary schools.
The CSR group’s first formal project was the creation of an outdoor reading space at Cherry Orchard School in Blackheath, with furnishing and more than 650 books donated by ABC.
Acorn Book Club was officially registered by the Charity Commission in June 2019, and its trustees remain dedicated to improving access to books for children in local schools.
Chair of governors at St Saviour’s, and newly appointed ABC trustee Jo Chandler, said: “I am absolutely honoured to have been asked to be part of the Acorn Book Club charity and can’t wait to announce our next project.”
Children’s books can be donated at all Acorn Group offices across south London or Kent. For more information, visit www.acornbookclub.co.uk.
Fisher German clients, colleagues and business partners donned their lycra and got on the saddle at its annual charity Cycle Day event. Led by Njinga Cycling, riders departed from Holdenby House and cycled 58 miles through the Northamptonshire countryside for Contact the Elderly.
The ride raised £1,500 towards Fisher German’s £10,000 charity target for 2019.
Goldcrest Land will be hosting a charity rounders match and property networking evening on 12 September at South Park Fulham, in support of LandAid.
For more information and to register a team of your own, click here.
