# Monarch Foundation raised over £460,000 for charity partners in 2016

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/15/monarch-foundation-raised-460000-charity-partners-2016/
- Published: 2017-02-15T09:30:18+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Monarch Foundation has announced that its customers and employees raised £463,000
for its four charity partners in 2016.**

[Monarch](http://www.monarch.co.uk/)‘s partners were: [Just a Drop](http://www.justadrop.org/)(
pictured), [Blind Veterans UK](https://www.blindveterans.org.uk/), Macmillan Cancer
Support, and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.

The funds include £420,000 raised by customers from onboard collections: almost 
£90,000 more than in 2015. Monarch employees raised £20,000 and a further £23,000
was raised through the website via [Pennies](http://pennies.org.uk/), the digital
charity box, which encourages Monarch customers to donate 50p when booking flights
and holidays online.

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Monarch’s five UK bases took part in annual fundraising events including Macmillan’s
[World’s Biggest Coffee Morning](https://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/), raising over
£7,000 last year while Monarch also ran its annual ‘Search for Santa’ flight when
over 150 ill children take a Santa flight courtesy of Monarch and Leeds Bradford
Airport.

Pauline Prow, chair of The Monarch Foundation, said:

>  _“_We are immensely proud of our staff and our customers for raising such a tremendous
> amount of money during 2016. Monarch employees are continually finding new ways
> of fundraising whether that’s running marathons, climbing mountains or hosting
> specific events and we are sure that 2017 will bring some even more creative and
> diverse challenges.”

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