Corporate partnerships: Reality HR event raises £700 for Gynaecological Cancer Fund

Plus: Quiz brings in nearly £2,000 for Book Aid International; quarry is greened up thanks to Cemex and the RSPB; and Bayer links up with Brook

The Basingstoke-based HR consultancy Reality HR raised more than £700 for the Gynaecological Cancer Fund at a beauty and style event. The event included a talk from beauty companies and image consultants and a raffle, with prizes donated by Reality HR’s staff and clients. The company chose GCF as its charity of the year for 2017 after one of its employees was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer last year. It has committed to raising £2,000 through a number of events throughout the year.

Teams of employees from across the book industry went head-to-head earlier this month in a book quiz that raised £1,963 for Book Aid International. As a result of the quiz, BAI will be able to send 981 books to places where people have limited access to them. Staff members from Bloomsbury, Hodder Education, Little Brown, Macmillan, Quercus, Schofield & Simms and United Agents, and from the library service in London’s Tower Hamlets, made up the 16 teams that took part in the quiz.

A disused quarry in Staffordshire is being restored to create a home for wildlife as part of a partnership between the building materials company Cemex and the RSPB. The restoration of Hopwas Quarry near Tamworth will mark the completion of a project the two organisations began in 2010 to create 1,000 hectares of land for wildlife in former quarry sites. The restoration has included 50 sites across England, Scotland and Wales, and has provided homes for 46 threatened species of bird, as well as other rare species including otters, red squirrels and water voles, plants and amphibians. The restored sites have also attracted more than 750,000 visitors to different sites.

The global pharmaceutical company Bayer has formed a strategic partnership with the sexual health charity Brook, which the charity hopes will support its work through a planned £30m reduction in public health funding in 2017/18. The partnership will have a particular focus on long-acting, reversible contraception.

A Sainsbury’s superstore in Farnham, Surrey, has presented its charity of the year, the local Phyllis Tuckwell hospice, with a cheque for £7,398. The money was raised through bucket collections, shop till collection tins, 5p carrier bag charges and fees from community groups whose members use the Sainsbury’s car park.

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Partnerships round-up: Maggie’s in link-up with Forth Ports sports

Plus: Avon announces CoppaFeel! alliance; Hope for Justice to profit from novel; and Veolia offers recycling service to CRUK

Thirty employees at Forth Ports, the company that operates ports in Scotland and Tilbury in London, have raised more than £25,000 for the cancer support charity Maggie’s by taking part in a Tough Mudder challenge. The whole team completed the 12-mile course of mud and obstacles in Dumfries and Galloway to raise £25,063.26 from friends and family for the charity, which operates centres in NHS cancer hospitals to provide free, practical, emotional and social support to people with cancer and their loved ones.

The direct-selling cosmetics company Avon has announced a partnership with the breast cancer charity CoppaFeel! to encourage more young women to check their bodies for signs of cancer. The partnership will raise money for the charity, but will also raise awareness among Avon’s sales representatives of the need to check for breast cancer on a regular basis. The representatives will pass the advice on to their customers. Avon will also support CoppaFeel! in recruiting new Boobettes, the charity’s team of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer at an early age and work to raise awareness of the symptoms, as well as creating awareness materials and digital tools to help the charity in its mission.

The author Michael Bearcroft has pledged to donate £1 from each sale of his newly rereleased novel Dangerous Score to the anti-human-trafficking charity Hope for Justice. The novel, originally published in 2012, features human trafficking. During his research, Bearcroft was surprised by the scale of the problem. He said in a statement that he wanted to support the cause when his book was republished by New Generation Publishing this month.

The waste-management company Veolia will provide free recycling services at 120 of Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life fundraising events between May and October next year. The company will distribute, collect and process recycling bins at venues where the 5km, 10km, Pretty Muddy, half marathon, marathon and hiking events take place. Staff from Veolia will also be directly involved in the events, either as participants or as members of the volunteer support teams looking after the runners.

The petrol station operator Rontec is aiming to raise more than £100,000 for the charity Young Epilepsy after naming the organisation as its charity partner. Customers at Rontec’s 240 outlets will be able to give an optional donation of 25p to the charity every time they pay with a card during the five months of the partnership.

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Partnerships round-up: Macmillan backs Baxters Loch Ness Marathon

Plus: MyLife Digital Group rides for Dorothy House; fish-oil firm links up with Baby Lifeline; Central England Co-operative votes for Dementia UK; and autism chartity goes into partnership with intu

Macmillan Cancer Support is the official charity partner of the Baxters Loch Ness Marathon and Festival of Running, and is hoping to beat the £74,000 it raised last year. The charity has been the official partner of the event, due to be held this year on 24 September, since 2009. This year it hopes the event will raise at least £75,000, which will go towards funding Macmillan’s support nurses and helpline.

Employees of the data-management company MyLife Digital Group will cycle 130 miles to raise money for Dorothy House Hospice Care. The sponsored ride, on Saturday 5 August, will start at the Dorothy House charity shop in Winsley, Wiltshire, and will visit the charity’s shops in in Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury, Warminster, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Midsomer Norton, Keynsham, Bath, Corsham, Chippenham, Malmesbury, Calne, Devizes and Melksham before returning to Winsley. Some members of the team will complete the whole ride and some will join for different legs of the journey.

The supplement company Wiley’s Finest Wild Alaskan Fish Oils has partnered with the pregnancy and baby charity Baby Lifeline. During August and September, 5 per cent of the proceeds of every sale of two of Wiley’s supplements will be donated to Baby Lifeline to help the charity purchase medical equipment and to provide training for healthcare professionals. The company has also donated an oil painting by the nationally recognised artist Anna Rose Bain, which the charity will auction to raise money.

Staff at the Central England Co-operative have voted for Dementia UK as its charity partner for the next 12 months. Customers will be able to support the charity by donating when they visit food stores, funeral homes or travel shops, and staff will also take part in a range of fundraising events. All the money raised will be used to provide specialist support to families affected by dementia through the charity’s Admiral Nurse service and Dementia Helpline. 

The National Autistic Society plans to launch a week-long Autism Hour campaign in partnership with the shopping centre owner intu this autumn. As part of the campaign, every retailer, restaurant and leisure operator at intu’s 14 centres in the UK are being asked to reduce their lights, music and other background noise for an hour at 10am on Monday 2 October. The charity aims to give autistic people a break from the kinds of stimuli that can leave them feeling overloaded with information and distressed. Other shops and services will be encouraged to hold their own Autism Hours across the week as part of the National Autistic Society’s wider Too Much Information campaign to reduce the overload that autistic people can experience in public.

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Partnerships round-up: Waitrose gives £500k to Marine Conservation Society

Plus: Bethany Christian Trust in new alliance; Book Trust links up with four partners; and Chestertons golf day raises £3,000-plus for St Mungo’s

The supermarket chain Waitrose is donating £500,000 from its carrier bag fund to the Marine Conservation Society to help organise 1,000 beach and river clean-up events in 2017 and 2018. The events are expected to involve thousands of volunteers, who will remove rubbish from beaches and rivers. Many of the plastics removed will be sorted and recycled, which the company said was a first. The initial event will take place from 15 September until 18 September.

The Scottish homelessness charity the Bethany Christian Trust has been chosen as the official charity partner for the family-run Craigie’s farm and restaurant, based in Edinburgh. The company will raise money for and awareness of the charity by involving it in events held at the farm and restaurant.

The Book Trust has entered into a four-way partnership with the retailer Sainsbury’s, the publisher Penguin Random House and Entertainment One, which owns the brand of the children’s character Peppa Pig. The four organisations will collaborate to publish Shop With Peppa, an interactive sticker storybook to encourage parents to read with their small children. Copies of the book will be available exclusively from Sainsbury’s stores across the UK from 21 August. The new project will complement the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, held in August, which are also produced in partnership with the Book Trust and celebrate the best children’s books, encouraging parents and carers of young children to spend time together reading. The awards will be supported by in-store activity in Sainsbury’s shops to promote children’s reading, including special appearances Peppa Pig and her family.

The property company Chestertons has raised more than £3,000 at its annual Charity Golf Day for the homelessness charity St Mungo’s. More than 40 players, including Chestertons’ staff, clients and suppliers, attended Malden Golf Club in New Malden, Surrey, to take part and help beat last year’s total of £2,500. The company is aiming to raise funds for St Mungo’s through various initiatives including bake sales, quiz evenings, bowling competitions and wine tastings.

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Partnerships round-up: Greene King raises £3m for Macmillan in five years

Plus: Wilko smashes yearly target; Masterclass Trust announces partnership with Waldorf Hilton; Barclays events raise £32k for Leeds Mencap

The pub chain Greene King has has raised £3m over the past five years for Macmillan Cancer Support through fundraising events including cake sales, raffles, quizzes and donating a percentage of the sales of its desserts.

The next campaign the company has planned is Miles for Macmillan, in which the company’s 43,000 employees plus customers will be invited to walk, run, bike or swim enough miles to reach the moon – a quarter of a million in total. The challenge will include a team climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.

The homeware retailer Wilko has raised £1.3m for local and national charities in the year to the end of April, it has announced.

The company smashed its target of £1m through staff fundraising, with employees at Wilko’s 402 stores, two distribution centres and head office taking part in sponsored walks, bike rides, bake-offs, charity football matches, body waxing and more.

Charities that benefited from their efforts included the Alzheimer’s Society, Cancer Research UK, Macmillan Cancer Support, the Children’s Air Ambulance, the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices.

The Masterclass Trust, an education charity run by London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket, has announced a partnership with the Waldorf Hilton hotel.

In 2015, the hotel, with the Hilton in the Community Foundation, raised more than £17,000 for the Masterclass Trust, which helps young people into creative industries through apprenticeships, workshops and support from industry professionals.  

Guy Hilton, general manager of the Waldorf Hilton, said: “It’s vitally important for us to give something back to the community and we’re very much looking forward to embarking on this new partnership.”

Branches of Barclays in Yorkshire and north-east England raised £32,500 last year for the learning disability charity Leeds Mencap through events including a corporate golf day, a rowathon and a sporting dinner.

The money will go towards supporting very young children with learning disabilities at the charity’s specialist playroom.

Dawn Spencer, business manager at Barclays, said: “Barclays has supported Leeds Mencap for years, but last year we reached a whole new level.”

She said the business was keen to support the playroom because it was crucial that very young children with learning disabilities received early intervention support when they most needed it.

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