Kingston Smith staff in annual Challenge Day

Howard Lake | 17 September 2002 | News

The entire staff and partners of top twenty accountancy firm Kingston Smith are downing pens and computers, and swapping suits for casual clothes, in efforts to improve the City as part of the firm’s annual Challenge Day on Friday 20 September.

Schools, farms, residential homes and public spaces will be cleaned up, spruced up, repainted, landscaped or helped out for the day when Kingston Smith staff descend on them. A fleet of double-decker buses will round up the firm’s 450-strong workforce from the City, West End, Romford, Hayes and Redhill offices dropping them off at 15 different City charities.

The day is taking place in association with City Action Community Development, a joint initiative between the Corporation of London and oneLondon, which links City firms with community projects in and around the Square Mile.

Schools and projects to benefit from the firm’s Challenge Day include Spitalfields City Farm, the Chalice Foundation, the Providence Row Charity, Alma Primary School, Beormond School, and the Geoffrey Chaucer Technology College.

“The Challenge Day was successfully launched last year as an alternative to the annual firm seminar,” said Kingston Smith senior partner Michael Snyder.

“Kingston Smith should be commended on their approach, with their whole staff team taking part in some form of volunteering activity in community based projects across a number of London boroughs”, said Jeffrey Lennon, projects manager for City Action for Community Development.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.