# KPMG UK staff choose Help the Hospices as charity of the year

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/10/24/kpmg-uk-staff-choose-help-hospices-charity-year/
- Published: 2006-10-24T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Staff at professional services provider KPMG UK have voted for Help the Hospices
as the company’s new charity partner. The two organisations are hoping to generate
£400,000 for Help the Hospices and local hospices throughout the UK through the 
year-long relationship, which has been named ‘KPMG Caring for Communities: Help 
Your Local Hospice’.
The partnership, which began on 1 October 2006, will include
both national and local campaigns, with each of KPMG’s 22 offices throughout the
UK being twinned with hospices in their area for local fundraising and volunteering
activities.

One of the goals of the partnership is to raise £100,000 through payroll giving.
KPMG will then match-fund employee contributions up to a total value of £100,000.

Other activities will include team challenges and treks, national fundraising months,
sporting events and pro bono work for Help the Hospices and local hospices.

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Mike Kelly, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at KPMG, said: “The amount we
have raised in previous charity partnerships has increased year on year, which is
why we’ve set ourselves quite a sizeable target this year.”

Four other charities joined Help the Hospices on the final shortlist.

 * **[First index-linked payroll giving scheme from Charities Trust](https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/01/first-indexlinked-payroll-giving-scheme-charities-trust/)**(
   1 December 2006)
 * **[Children's Society chosen as Co-operative Group's charity of the year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/10/children039s-society-chosen-cooperative-group039s-charity-year/)**(
   10 December 2006)
 * **[Morrisons chooses Asthma UK as Charity of the Year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/13/morrisons-chooses-asthma-uk-charity-year/)**(
   13 December 2006)