# Homebase raises £550,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/08/16/homebase-raises-550000-marie-curie-cancer-care/
- Published: 2007-08-16T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Employees and customers of home improvement retailer Homebase have raised £550,000
in the first year of the company’s first ever two year charity partnership.
The ‘
No Place Like Home’ campaign target of £500,000 was reached within a year, with 
staff at 300 Homebase stores getting involved in fundraising events such as quizzes,
dress-down days, and charity cricket matches.

Homebase customers have boosted the total by buying £17,000 worth of Marie Curie
Cancer Care trolley keyrings. They also raised £8,000 through buying potted Tete
a Tete daffodils.

Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care, said: “A new 
target of £1 million for our partnership with Homebase will enable us to fund home
care and support for 1,000 patients in communities across the country.”

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