Peak of success
Ian Banks, an associate director at CBRE’s Bristol office, led a charge of 16 property advisers through a tough mountain challenge to raise more than £1,500 for Shelter.
The team conquered the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, a 24.5-mile route over the region’s highest peaks – Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough – under the target time of 12 hours.
Banks, who works in the valuation advisory team, said: “It was a very tiring day but fortunately the weather was glorious, and more importantly the amount of money we have raised made it worth every step.”
Property gets quizzical
JLL came up trumps in battle for general knowledge supremacy at the Great Property Pub Quiz, organised by Cluttons.
The team “Universally Challenged” snatched a narrow victory from a similarly-named band of BDB lawyers, “University Challenged”.
More than 150 property professionals took part in the event at the Phoenix pub in London’s Cavendish Square, helping to raise £3,500 for LandAid.
Quizmaster Matthew Allen, Cluttons’ global marketing director, organised the event as part of a company-wide ambition to raise £250,000 for charity during its 250th year anniversary.
● Losers (and winners) can make another bid for pub quiz victory, again at the Phoenix pub, on 26 November for the quarterly quiz night hosted by Savills’ marketing director Steve Carrick.
Truslove offers testing
Worcestershire agent Truslove, along with Handelsbanken, will be supporting a prostate cancer testing session on 26 November for men aged over 45.
They are teaming up with the Worcestershire Prostate Awareness Group to run the facility at the Abbey Hotel in Redditch between 5pm-8.30pm.
Visitors will be given a free blood test, which can indicate the signs of prostate cancer – the most common cancer affecting men in England.
Book in advance. Phone 07817 083492 or email worcspa@gmail.com.
Arctic challenge for auctioneer
Welsh property auctioneer Paul Fosh is in training for an arctic adventure that will take him across 300 miles of the bleakest terrain on earth.
In February he will take part in the Yukon Arctic Ultra Marathon in northern Canada to raise money for south Wales homeless charity Llamau.
The race requires him to haul all of his equipment on a sled through the snow, in temperatures that could plunge to -40 degrees.
He enters the adventure having completed the Likeys 6633 ultra marathon in March. That race is recognised as one of the toughest endurance challenges on earth and Fosh was just one of eight people to finish the 250-mile, eight-day challenge, from a field of 29 entrants.
He raised £7,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
