# Schroders plc employees beat fundraising target for Macmillan

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/01/10/schroders-plc-employees-beat-fundraising-target-macmillan/
- Published: 2005-01-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Employees of Schroders plc in the UK raised £568,000 for Macmillan Cancer Relief,
its charity of the year in 2004.
Schroders, recently ranked 5th in the Guardian 
Giving List, chose the cancer care charity to be the beneficiary of its fundraising
in the UK last year, its 200th anniversary, with an initial target of £500,000.

Employee fundraising started in March 2004 with a ‘Stuck in the Box’ event with 
employees required to spend half an hour each in a mock phone box calling on contacts
to help them raise as much money as they could.

Other fundraising efforts included a 900-mile sponsored bike ride from Land’s End
to John O’Groats and an Olympic fundraising relay, with each passing of the baton
resulting in increasing donations.

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