CONSTRUCTION COMPANY RAISES ALMOST £20,000 FOR CHARITIES

Race nights, quiz nights and a 300-mile bike ride by staff at Gloucester-based construction company EG Carter & Co, raised almost £20,000 for charities.

Employees presented a cheque to Rose Hedges, representative of Herefordshire MIND and Sarah James from The James Hopkins Trust. The money will be split equally between the James Hopkins Trust, Crohn’s and Colitis and Herefordshire MIND.

Kimberley Clay, PR Coordinator at E G Carter & Co Ltd said “To have raised this amount of money after a year of fundraising is incredible.To see what the money will go towards has made the hard work worth it.”

Celebrating ten years of business at security firm

A Coventry security firm which aimed to raise money for ten different charities during its tenth anniversary last year raised more than £10,000 after taking part in more than 30 fundraising events.

Stadium launched its appeal with its male staff braving a charity spray tan.

Further events included the Three Peaks Challenge, abseiling down Coventry Cathedral, a 5km ‘Pretty Muddy’ obstacle course, and flying across the Ricoh Arena on a zipwire.

The money will be shared between Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, Alzheimer’s Society, Cancer Research UK, Coventry & Warwickshire Mind, Emmaus, Macmillan Cancer Support, Myton Hospices, The Forest Hermitage, YoungMinds and Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice.

“To have raised this amount of money after a year of fundraising is incredible. To see what the money will go towards has made the hard work worth it”

Warwick charity launches major fundraising dinner at Ricoh Arena

A national charity near Warwick that enriches the lives of thousands of disabled children and adults through horses is launching a new sports dinner to raise muchneeded funds.

Riding for Disabled Association (RDA) – whose horses benefit the lives of 25,000 children and adults at 500 locations across the UK – is hosting its Charity Sports Dinner at the Ricoh Arena this month, with Rugby World Cup referee Wayne Barnes attending as the headline speaker.

The event comes a year after the organisation moved its headquarters to newly-built premises at the RDA National Training Centre in Old Warwick Road, Shrewley.