Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks raise £5m for Hospice UK
Melanie May | 11 May 2016 | News
Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks have announced that they have now raised £5m for Hospice UK, since becoming corporate partners eight years ago.
The money is used to provide support to patients and their families at over 200 hospices across the UK. It is equivalent to 200,000 hours of care from a nurse, and equates to an average of £1,712 raised per day.
Employees of the banks have raised £2.5million with the banks matching their efforts pound for pound. Throughout the partnership, employees have also contributed over 35,000 volunteering hours to their local hospices, with each branch and office matched with a local hospice and 99 per cent of branches actively involved in fundraising activity.
Individual hospices that have benefited significantly from the Banks’ support include the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow, which received more than £270,000 and St. Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds, which has received over £150,000.
In celebration of this achievement, the Banks have now launched a challenge which will see up to 200 employees hike over five million steps across the Yorkshire Dales in September 2016 in what is set to be the largest employee fundraising event in the banks’ history.
David Duffy, chief executive officer at Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, said:
“This fundraising milestone is testament to the hard work and dedication of our employees who give their time through fundraising and volunteering for this extremely worthwhile cause. With the Banks match-funding every penny raised, it’s a real motivation for our team to celebrate and continue to build on the £5 million achievement.”
Picture: Chief executive David Duffy and Hospice UK director of income generation Catherine Bosworth.
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