GMP Community
Community coppers filling the coffers IN September officers and staff around the Force took part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning. The first event was in 1991 and since then it has raised over £75 million in total for Macmillan Cancer Support. This year it raised more than £9million for the charity. In GMP events included: • A coffee morning held outside Argos in Stockport town centre by Amanda Roberts, operational support officer from the Stockport NPT raising £250 • Staff from Bradford Park raised £230 • Trafford Division raised more than £250 • Officers and staff from Claytonbrook raised £160 from their coffee morning
Pictured above: Staff from the Corporate Communications Branch raised more than £300 from a cof‐ fee morning at FHQ . Pictured right a selection of images from events around the Force
People around the country have raised a staggering
£16.5m
so far this year
from hosting MacMillan Coffee Mornings
Scaling Everest for charity
TWO GMP staff took on the Everest Basecamp challenge to raise money for a local children’s charity CAFT (Children’s Adventure Farm Trust). Karen Broadbent from the HR Branch and temp Insp Cecilia Oakley from Bury Division joined a team who
are aiming to raise £75,000 for the Children’s Adventure Farm Trust (CAFT), who provide a variety of residential programmes for terminally ill, disabled and disadvantaged children from all over the North West. The pair, who are both keen walkers have been planned to take part in the event for more than a year and have spent their free weekends training hard. Karen has been a support of CAFT for the last four years and has previously raised money for the charity by climbing Ben Nevis. Karen said: “I’ve done a lot of what could be described as conventional charity fundraising over the years, cake sales, raffles etc. but this year I wanted to do something really memorable. This is my favourite charity, I’ve been to the facility and
spent time with the staff and children, what they do is amazing so when the opportunity came up to do something that would make such a big contribution to the running costs I jumped at the chance” Cecelia is no also by no means a novice at fundraising and has participated in some of the bigger events arranged by the Force during her GMP career. She has previous experience of taking on tough challenges – last year May she climbed the Atlas Montains before taking on Everest will be climbing Kilimanjaro in September to raise money for the Twincess Fund. To sponsor either or both of these intrepid adventurers please go to www.justgiving.com and search for Karen Broadbent or Cecelia Oakley. Brief Edition Year 27