# HBOS Foundation chooses Help the Hospices as charity of the year

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/03/26/hbos-foundation-chooses-help-hospices-charity-year/
- Published: 2004-03-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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

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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.

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