Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks raise £390,000 for Help the Hospices
Howard Lake | 9 February 2009 | News
Employees of Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks have raised over £195,000 for Help the Hospices in the first year of the partnership, with the bank matching their efforts by adding another £195,000.
One of the top fundraisers was 50-year-old Jock Ferguson, an employee from Clydesdale Bank’s Carlisle Branch, who raised £8094 by completing the ‘Alphabet Marathon’ – 26 marathons in 26 different cities, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet.
Employees across the Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank network have been involved in a range of fundraising initiatives, from midnight fun runs, marathons, and quiz nights, to ‘Lock Up Your Boss’ events, abseils and Santa dashes at Christmas.
Employees also volunteered a 1,500 hours of their time across the year, to help out with various tasks for the hospices, such as gardening, making tea, and helping out various mail shots.
The original first year target of the campaign was £250,000.
Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks‘ Head Offices and network of branches and business centres are paired with local hospices, so that employees can support hospice care on both a national and local level.
www.helpthehospices.org.uk
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.