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Athona Recruitment tots up fundraising total

Athona Recruitment is delighted to have raised an incredible £11,035.28 for Alzheimer’s Society last year.

Last year, employees from the Brentwood-based recruitment agency have taken to the skies and jumped 10,000ft; completed multiple obstacle courses including an inflatable 5k and Nuclear Rush; three directors completed a longest golf day; a quiz night was held; and tons of tasty cupcakes were baked in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Cupcake Day on 14 June 2018.

L-r: Mussara Gray, Alzheimer’s Society Community Fundraiser, Essex and Tina London, Director of Athona Recruitment

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Drivers Direct staff have a ball to raise funds for NSPCC

Provider of temporary and permanent drivers to commercial organisations Drivers Direct has raised £2.5k for children’s charity the NSPCC at the company’s annual charity ball in London.

The money raised is enough to pay for a Childline counsellor’s training, allowing more calls to be answered. The NSPCC is the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and protecting children is their sole purpose.

The money was raised at the company’s annual charity ball in London, with employees each contributing towards the charity through raffle prizes and on the night activities. The team raised £1,250 and the company then matched the funds bringing a grand total of £2,500.

Gethin Roberts, owner and MD at Drivers Direct, comments: “Each year the team selects a charity to support and this time we were delighted to support the excellent and important work that the NSPCC does. The team all had fun, gave generously and we’re pleased to be able to raise such a meaningful amount.”

Janette Drew, Community Fundraising Manager for NSPCC, adds: “We would like to thank Drivers Direct for their generosity in donating £2,500 to support our work in helping some of the most vulnerable children across the UK. Our work depends so much on public donations, and it’s only through the efforts of companies and individuals like Drivers Direct that we can reach as many children as we do – whether through our schools service, Childline, Helpline or in our service centres helping children recover from things no child should ever have to endure.”

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Service Care Solutions chips in to charities

Preston-based recruiter Service Care Solutions is donating £4k to five charities as part of an innovative CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiative. When an employee does some exceptional work, they are given a poker chip with their name on.

The company has charity collection boxes (like they have for tokens in the supermarkets) in the office and the employee pops the chip into the box for their chosen charity. This year’s nominated charities are The Alzheimer’s Society, and four local charities – Derian House, Lancashire Mind, St Catherine’s Hospice and The Space Centre. For every chip in the box at the end of the year, Service Care Solutions donates £1 to that charity.

As well as empowering staff to pick who they would like the company to donate to on their behalf, all chips are put into a tombola-style draw at their annual awards. Several chips get chosen at random: last year’s top prize was £1,250 towards a holiday and other prizes included a £500 Red Letter Day and a £250 OneforAll voucher. Obviously, the more chips you get, the more chance you have of winning a prize in the draw, so the company find it works well as a motivator.

And here are the final totals for the charities: Alzheimer’s Society - £529 Derian House - £1,070 Lancashire Mind - £911 The Space Centre - £555 St Catherine’s Hospice - £935

Taking the Chip Challenge (l-r) director Chris Musgrove and Paul Bradley, CSR committee chair

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Robert Walters aims to Break the Cycle about men’s health

Rugby icons Richard Hill MBE, Roger Uttley OBE and Harlequins’ Mark Lambert joined global recruitment consultancy Robert Walters in launching its world-wide employee wellbeing initiative – ‘Break the Cycle’ – in support of the Movember Foundation.

Helping to set the benchmark will be the Hairy Handlebars – George Cullen and Ben Cook – and their 6,000 mile cycle from Robert Walters Group London HQ to their offices in Tokyo.

The launch event took place on Thursday 21 March, 12pm at St Martin’s Courtyard in Covent Garden – outside Robert Walters Group HQ.

The initiative will challenge over 4,000 employees at the Robert Walters Group to Break the Cycle and do something fun, active, meaningful and inclusive with colleagues – with the goal of improving wellbeing and checking in on peers.

The campaign comes in response to Robert Walters Group research, which reveals that over three quarters of UK employees feel ‘uncomfortable’ talking about mental health in the workplace, citing anxiety of how they might be perceived by co-workers as a key hurdle.

The #BreakTheCycle challenge will have a ‘60’ goal – be it 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 60 km or 60 attempts – all in aid of representing the 60 men we lose each hour to suicide across the world.

L-r: George Cullen, Ben Cook ©Amelia Allen Photography

L-r: Roger Uttley OBE, George Cullen and Ben Cook (Hairy Handlebars), Richard Hill MBE, Giles Daubeney (Robert Walters Group) ©Amelia Allen Photography

L-r: Richard Boyd (Robert Walters Group), Marc Earnshaw (Robert Walters Group), Ben Cook and George Cullen (Hairy Handlebars), Rob Dyson (Robert Walters Group), Richard Harris (Robert Walters Group) ©Amelia Allen Photography

George Cullen (Hairy Handlebars) with family friends at Final Send-off © Amelia Allen Photography

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Class People bring books to life for pupils

Staff at education recruitment specialist Class People may no longer be at school but they have continued their tradition of dressing up and being silly to raise awareness for World Book Day.

Consultant Robert Mills reads to the pupils at Bishops Cleeve Primary School, Cheltenham

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Futures staff raise over £500 for Comic Relief

Staff from Horsforth (near Leeds)-based recruitment company Futures dressed from head to toe in red and took part in a mass bake sale on Comic Relief Day [15 March]. BBC Radio Leeds joined them to test their baking live on air and speak to them about why it’s so important to support this cause.

The recruitment business, launched 25 years ago, raised a total of £256 which will be matched by their Managing Director Tom Liptrot to make a total of £512. The day itself was full of fun and activities including a cupcake sweepstake, a bake sale and a host of Red Nose goodies on sale including t-shirts and Deely Boppers.

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Stanton House fundraising tops £20k for EducAid

From climbing mountains to tackling obstacle courses and auctioning their skills off for charity, staff at professional services and technology recruiter Stanton House last year raised £20,615 for EducAid, a charity helping underprivileged and war-affected children in Sierra Leone.

The fundraising was enough to pay for the food, schooling and education of 82 children for an entire year – or the equivalent of funding the build of a small school in Sierra Leone.

Nick Eaves, chief customer officer at Stanton House was joined by chairman Andrew Brown and Erin Northey, CEO of EducAid, to present the charity with a cheque for the yearly fundraising.

Andrew Brown generously matched the staff’s £10k target, pushing the total over the £20k threshold for EducAid.

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L-r: Nick Eaves, chief customer officer at Stanton House and chairman Andrew Brown, with Erin Northey, CEO of EducAid

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NRL help amateur rowers take on the Atlantic

Technical, engineering and construction recruiter NRL is sponsoring a team of four friends as they embark on the gruelling challenge of rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic.

The team of four friends – Hugh Gillum, Tom Foley, Max Breet and Ollie Palmer – may not be professional rowers, but each have a drive and desire to take on the courageous challenge to raise important funds for charity.

Fortitude IV will be supporting the West London Zone charity throughout their Atlantic campaign, having seen the huge positive impact the organisation has on the young lives of those children living in the most deprived and unequal areas of London.

NRL will work with Fortitude IV leading up to the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge in December.

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Concept Resourcing celebrates with Night of Stars

Specialist recruitment consultancy Concept Resourcing hosted its Night of Stars 2019 Launch event at the Park Regis Birmingham, which saw the company celebrate its best year in business to date.

Befitting the Night of Stars, the sit-down dinner and awards ceremony was situated in the Sky Loft on the top floor of Birmingham’s Park Regis Hotel on Broad Street.

Having had a stellar 2018 the event was organised to acknowledge all the hard work from the staff to make it a record year, with company turnover reaching £15.3m, a 5% growth on 2017.

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Boston College students showcase creative talents to modern slavery experts

Boston College students taking part in a course with the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) have showcased their work to some of the world’s leading experts on modern slavery and labour exploitation.

Students from the college presented their visual concepts for raising awareness of labour abuse at an event hosted by the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab on Monday 21 January 2019.

The concepts included everything from videos to photography, graphic design and even clothing, all of which featured in a four-minute showreel played at the event.

They were also given an exclusive insight into the work of both the GLAA, the foremost investigative agency for tackling labour exploitation, and the Rights Lab, home to the world’s leading modern slavery experts who have developed an advanced research agenda focused on eradicating slavery by 2030.

Boston College is the first college in the UK to work with the GLAA on embedding the subject of labour abuse across its range of academic and vocational courses.

As part of the project, the college’s 1,500 full-time students will all have a tutorial on workers’ rights and spotting the signs of modern slavery during this academic year.

Boston College students present their ideas to prevent modern slavery

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Source Technology’s fundraising year for GOSH

Source Technology is about to hit its 2018 £3k fundraising target for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Highlights included a World Cup charity day, a Team Challenge charity day and Halloween. World Cup day activities included penalty shoot-outs, keepy-uppies and a world cup brainteaser. Halloween revealed some amazing outfits by the team, but the biggest day – both for funds raised and activities undertaken – was the firm’s Charity Challenge day.

Staff took part in a spinathon, a karaoke, a sponsored silence (apart from speaking to clients and candidates, of course), a stepathon, a marathon Twister game and a pool competition. £2.5k was raised on that day alone.

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Class cycling act from CEO Bassett

Lynis Bassett, CEO of education recruiter Class People and the LB Education Group, is back home after completing a gruelling five days and 465km riding a bike in India for charity Women V Cancer.

Bassett said: “The sheer focus and strength of mind to get through this cycle ride was huge, however I am sure a lot less that the strength required of woman facing cancer treatments. Many of the women on this trip shared some of those stories; they were much stronger than me.

“It is hard to put into words what it feels like to be part of something like this. The women that ride beside you – who radiate simultaneously their vulnerability and strength – it is inspiring, it is uplifting. It is women together.”

Lynis Bassett completes her five-day cycle ride in India

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Jobshop UK swings into action for Montacute School

Bournemouth-based recruiters Jobshop UK presented Montacute School, a school for children with special needs and learning difficulties, with a gift of a swing.

Jobshop UK held a charity Grande Masquerade Ball and raised more than £15k for the specialist swing, which gives children in wheelchairs the chance to play with their friends.

Lin Creswell, therapies co-ordinator at Montacute School, said: “We are so happy with our new swings, and the pupils have been squealing with delight and signing for more.

“We have been using them at PE and playtime, and for some of our wheelchair users this bespoke equipment means they can play alongside their peers for the first time.”

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Cummins Mellor raises over £15k for Blackburn Youth Zone

Blackburn-based recruitment and employment specialists Cummins Mellor organised a Quiz Quest for the Blackburn Youth Zone at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa.

More than 200 people from 52 businesses across Lancashire took part in the quiz, where the title of ‘BYZ Quiz Quest Champions 2018’ went to Napthens Solicitors, who were presented with a trophy and medals made by members of Blackburn Youth Zone.

The £15,170 raised on the night will go towards the Youth Zone’s ‘Get a Job’ programme, facilitated by the team at Blackburn Youth Zone. This programme is aimed at supporting young people aged 16-24, gain the right skills for employment.

L-r: Blackburn Youth Zone interim CEO Raz Mohammed, Blackburn Youth Zone chairman Rt Hon Jack Straw, Cummins Mellor managing director Michelle Mellor, BYZ Quiz Quest champions Napthens and Cummins Mellor chairman Richard Mellor

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Forward Role hosts Wellness Day for Forever Manchester

To support their local charity Forever Manchester, Forward Role staff took part in a Wellness Day at their city centre office.

The day started with a morning yoga session and healthy breakfast consisting of overnight oats and fruit. The office bar (The Base) was turned into a Smoothie Station for the day and during the afternoon all staff were encouraged to take part in Fika often translated as “a coffee and cake break”. This Swedish tradition involves making time for friends and colleagues to share a hot drink and a little something to eat.

All donations raised on the day went to Forever Manchester, who fund and support community activity across Greater Manchester.

Some of the Forward Role team taking part in a morning yoga session

The Forward Role Bar (The Base) was turned into a Smoothie Station for the day

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First Call close in on fundraising target

First Call Contract Services charity champions are heading towards their end-of-year target for Macmillan Cancer Support. The team is trying to achieve an amazing £53k by the end of 2018, and at the time of going to press at the start of December, had raised a whopping £37k.The £53k will pay for a Macmillan nurse for a whole year.

Why not get behind First Call Contract Services dedicated teams and support, raise or donate? To donate please go to www.justgiving.com/fccs

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Red Berry raises money and a toast to dementia charity

Red Berry Recruitment raised £230 for dementia charity Reminiscence Learning at Gintacular – the launch of Red Berry’s new gin and vodka liqueurs.

Curated by E18hteen Gin, Berrylicious is a strawberry flavoured gin liqueur, whilst Berrytastic is a raspberry flavoured vodka liqueur.

Red Berry Recruitment held the Gintacular party at Retro Nightclub in Taunton, Somerset.

Reminiscence Learning is a Somerset-based charity that provides specialist dementia, activity and reminiscence support.

Emma Green, Reminiscence manager, said: “Thank you so much to Red Berry Recruitment for choosing to support us with funds raised at their Gintacular Networking event.

“It was lots of fun to work together on this event and a fantastic opportunity to raise both the profile of the charity and essential funds to help us to really make a difference to the lives of people living with dementia in our community.”