# First fundraising event designed Centrica group staff - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/04/29/first-fundraising-event-designed-centrica-group-staff/ - Published: 2003-04-29T23:00:00+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake The Centrica Mountain Marathon in July is the first fundraising event designed exclusively for staff in the Centrica group, which owns the AA, British Gas, Goldfish and OneTel. The Marathon takes teams across a challenging 26.2 mile course in North Wales in just two days. Funds raised from the event will be shared between the newly launched Air Ambulance Foundation, the Meningitis Trust and BEN. Andrew McCallum, Community Affairs Manager from Centrica, is confident that the teams from the group will exceed their target of raising £150,000. This is the first venture into challenge events by the Air Ambulance Foundation since its launch in February 2003 as the national fundraising body in support of regional air ambulance services. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) The event is unusual as there are three beneficiary charities identified by Centrica. The Meningitis Trust is the selected “Charity of the Year”, and through the AA there have been long links with the air ambulances and BEN. Teams are entering from all parts of the group and the event is expected to be fully subscribed. Centrica is covering all the costs for running the event, with all the sponsorship income being available for charitable use. * **[Syntegra Edinburgh Marathon runners raise funds online](https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/05/06/syntegra-edinburgh-marathon-runners-raise-funds-online/)**( 6 May 2003) * **[32 City institutions raise funds with charity rugby tournament](https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/05/11/32-city-institutions-raise-funds-charity-rugby-tournament/)**( 11 May 2003) * **[Dealing for Donation Day to raise funds from City institutions](https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/05/14/dealing-donation-day-raise-funds-city-institutions/)**( 14 May 2003)