# Yorkshire Building Society gives £175,000 to its first charity of the year

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/02/02/yorkshire-building-society-gives-175000-its-first-charity-year/
- Published: 2012-02-02T11:44:44+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Yorkshire Building Society has given £175,000 to Alzheimer’s Society, its first 
ever charity of the year. This is the company’s largest charitable donation.

Yorkshire, Barnsley and Chelsea building society staff and members raised £85,469
during 2011, and the [Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation](http://www.ybs.co.uk/cf/foundation.html)
matched the sum pound for pound. In this way they beat their original fundraising
target of £100,000.

The highest amount raised by one individual – nearly £11,000, was raised by former
Chief Executive Iain Cornish, who left the Society at the end of 2011. He completed
a sponsored 170-mile cycle between the Bradford head office and the Chelsea Building
Society’s head office in Cheltenham.

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The Society’s charity of the year for 2012 is the RNLI.

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