# Law firms to donate percentage of personal injury claims to charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/06/19/law-firms-donate-percentage-personal-injury-claims-charity/
- Published: 2004-06-19T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Community Claims is a new network of Personal Injury Lawyers in England and Wales
who have pledged to donate a fee to charity for each new personal injury claim they
handle.
Community Claims has been set up by lawyers who are “fed up with the ambulance-
chasing image” of companies like Claims Direct and the Accident Group: the lawyers
wanted to promote their local services and make donations to local organisations
chosen by the accident victims that instruct them.

Mark Hollinshead in the Crewe Firm, Taylor Hollinshead Solicitors is the founder
member of the Community Claims movement. He said: “For far too long now the whole
idea of making a personal injury claim has developed into an industry with everybody
trying to take a cut. We formed Community Claims because we wanted to change all
of that by getting back to a system where local people would go to a local Lawyer.
By way of a “thank you” for supporting a local business, it seemed fair that we 
should be prepared to put something back into the Community. For this reason, every
time we take a case on, we will pay £50.00 to the local good cause chosen by the
client and also a separate £25.00 into a Schools Fund, which we will distribute 
on a regular basis. The whole of the Community Claims movement will also pay £20.00
into a National Fund for each accepted case, which should mean that each year the
network will be able to make larger donations to good causes.

Further details of the scheme and nominations from public or private organisations
for good causes can be addressed to Mark Hollinshead at to Taylor Hollinshead Solicitors.

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