HBOS Foundation chooses Help the Hospices as charity of the year

Howard Lake | 26 March 2004 | News

Help the Hospices is the chosen charity of the HBOS Foundation for 2004 following an online and telephone poll by Clerical Medical and HBOS Group staff to vote for their favourite charity.

, has kicked off its
2004 fundraising campaign in earnest with an evening at the races, whilst
attending the HBOS Group’s annual conference. Employees who took part in
the event made a significant contribution towards Help the Hospices, HBOS’
chosen charity in the HBOS Foundation Million Pound Challenge.

With match funding from the HBOS Foundation, (See note 1) Clerical Medical
raised over four thousand pounds for Help the Hospices during the course of
the evening.

Further events are already planned throughout the year including dress down
days, sponsored marathon runs and raffles to win tickets to the Euro 2004
football championships.
Television presentations were broadcast to staff from Help the Hospices, Mencap and Barnardo’s prior to the vote.

The partnership is likely to raise over £1 million donation dring the year, and is one of the largest corporate partnerships Help the Hospices has ever undertaken.

Barnardo’s, Mencap & Enable Scotland will not miss out as runners-up in the pitch, with
the HBOS Foundation making a £50,000 donation to each charity. In addition,
if HBOS colleagues break their £1 million target then any money raised over
that will be split between all three charities.

Last year colleagues from Clerical Medical helped HBOS to beat the Million
Pound Challenge target, raising a total across the group of £1.273 million for Macmillan Cancer Relief.

About Howard Lake
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.