# Yorkshire and Clydesdale Banks raise £100,000 for BHF

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/09/yorkshire-and-clydesdale-banks-raise-100000-bhf/
- Published: 2005-09-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Employees at Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank have raised over £100,000 for the
British Heart Foundation in just eight months.
In January this year, Yorkshire Bank
and Clydesdale Bank launched their first ever Charity Partnership by each making
a £20,000 donation. Since then, all funds raised by employees have been matched 
£1 for £1 by the banks, encouraging the continued commitment from their 10,000 staff.

The banks reached their £100,000 fundraising milestone by holding a host of fundraising
events, including a ‘wear something red’ day on Valentine’s Day and a ‘wear something
red on your head’ day during the BHF’s Help a Heart Week in June. Also among the
activities that week was a ‘Departmental Triathlon’ where competitors cycled, swam
and ran (or walked) a total of 874 miles – equivalent to the distance between John
o’Groats to Land’s End, raising £5,000.

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