# Corporate charity of the year partnership raises £150k for NCH

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/05/26/corporate-charity-year-partnership-raises-150k-nch/
- Published: 2004-05-26T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Electrical retailer Comet has raised £150k for its corporate charity partner, NCH,
the children’s charity in the first year of the relationship, and has announced 
its plans to extend the partnership until at least January

 

2005.
NCH and Comet began working together in May 2003 and since then staff have
been getting involved in activities ranging from trekking in Morocco to selling 
pin badges in-stores to running the London marathon.

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In addition NCH and Comet have been working together to highlight the importance
of Internet safety for children, with a series of Internet safety seminars held 
in Comet stores last September. Comet has also begun pre-installing PCs with parental
control software.

 

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