# Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks choose Help the Hospices

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/02/01/clydesdale-and-yorkshire-banks-choose-help-hospices/
- Published: 2008-02-01T21:02:34+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank have selected Help the Hospices as their new 
charity partner, starting from today.

The partnership with the hospice movement’s national charity will incorporate both
national and local initiatives. The Banks’ networks of over 340 branches, 74 Financial
Solutions Centres and their head offices will be matched with individual local hospice
charities, and their employees will be able to participate in local volunteering
and fundraising activities.

The partnership will include corporate donations, staff volunteering programmes 
and community partnerships focusing on numeracy and financial literacy.

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Maxine Blunden, director of fundraising at [Help the Hospices](http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk),
said: “There will be four nationally co-ordinated, themed focus months for fundraising
spread throughout the year starting with a big community-focused kick-off in the
run-up to Easter. The Banks already have a well-established and successful employee
volunteering programme so we are confident there will be substantial and widespread
engagement with local hospices”.

The Banks’ previous three-year relationship with the British Heart Foundation raised
more than £500,000. Help the Hospices was chosen from a shortlist of eight charities
that met the banks’ corporate community investment criteria.

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