Homebase raises £550,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care
Howard Lake | 16 August 2007 | News
Employees and customers of home improvement retailer Homebase have raised £550,000 in the first year of the company’s first ever two year charity partnership.
The ‘No Place Like Home’ campaign target of £500,000 was reached within a year, with staff at 300 Homebase stores getting involved in fundraising events such as quizzes, dress-down days, and charity cricket matches.
Homebase customers have boosted the total by buying £17,000 worth of Marie Curie Cancer Care trolley keyrings. They also raised £8,000 through buying potted Tete a Tete daffodils.
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Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care, said: “A new target of £1 million for our partnership with Homebase will enable us to fund home care and support for 1,000 patients in communities across the country.”
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.