Sunday 14 March 2010
Gala Coral
Sue Ryder Care is excited to announce that the Gala Coral Group has adopted us as their UK Charity Partner for the next 18 months. Their staff voted between ourselves, Help the Aged, Diabetes UK and Mencap. Sue Ryder Care won by an overwhelming majority.
The Gala Coral Group has over 160 bingo clubs, 28 UK casinos and 1,600 Coral shops as well as a growing e-commerce division. With 20,000 employees they are looking to raise £1 million during the partnership as well as generating 1,000’s of hours of volunteering!
The Gala Coral Group understand the importance of contributing to their local communities and how business can make a real difference to people’s lives.
We are really excited to work with such a proactive and motivated company over the next 18 months and look forward to creating some innovative projects working towards a common goal.
John Lewis
We are delighted to say that in 2009 John Lewis Reading chose us for their Charity of the Year. They have been engaged in numerous fundraising activities for us, including our Dragon Boat Race and our Ride for Ryder Bike Challenge.
They also organised a variety of in-house activities such as a Partners Bingo Night and a Quiz Night as well as sponsoring our Nettlebed Hospice promotional video and supporting our Lights of Love Service by donating some beautiful decorations.
A group of Partners also volunteered at the Hospice to help reorganise our basement area. This has enabled us to work more efficiently and everyone had a great day out, learning more about our work and the Hospice.
They have been incredibly successful at raising a tremendous amount in aid of Sue Ryder Care.
It's a pleasure to work with such a professional organisation and we've also made some great friends too. We want to thank them for all their amazing support and dedication, which has helped the Hospice in a vast array of ways that have benefited all aspects of our operation.
We will be keeping in touch with everyone and look forward to continuing our partnership with them into the future.
BAE Systems
Sue Ryder Care has been chosen as BAE Systems UK partner for its global Charity Challenge. BAE Systems have around 32,900 staff working in the UK.
Starting in May, for 18 months, the company will support the charity through its workforce and associated funding schemes. Previously they supported Macmillan Cancer Support and the Stroke Association.
Their staff will raise funds and dedicate their enthusiasm and expertise by volunteering with Sue Ryder Care across all parts of the organisation.
Perkins
We are delighted that Perkins chose us as their charity partner! They have pledged to raise at least £40,000 in the first year of a two-year partnership through various events such as a Lands End to John O'Groats bike ride, Tash for Cash and an auction.
Volunteering has also been a key part of the partnership to date with fantastic gardening and maintenance projects taking place. In January 2009 thirty volunteers spent two days to help to decorate the Exeter and Fryer wards at Stamford Hospital in preparation for the temporary occupation of the wards by staff and patients at Sue Ryder Care Thorpe Hall Hospice while essential maintenance work is undertaken on the lift and buildings at Thorpe Hall.
We are really grateful for their support.
Chelsea Building Society
Sue Ryder Care are delighted to have been chosen by employees as their 5th charity of the year. So far employees have really been getting behind the partnership from an Executive fundraising challenge to a snowman building competition to last rolo valentines treats. Pam Sewell, Fundraiser for Sue Ryder Care - Leckhampton Court Hospice, said: “We are so pleased to see Sue Ryder Care voted as Chelsea’s Charity of the Year. We are busy planning a fantastic year ahead and staff at Chelsea are set to get involved in a whole range of fundraising activities for Sue Ryder Care, which will help us to continue to offer care and support for people living with serious illnesses and conditions. We are very grateful for their support and are really looking forward to working with them over the coming year.”
http://www.thechelsea.co.uk/
Cambridge Building Society
In 2007, Sue Ryder Care was one of the three charities to benefit from Cambridge Building Society's annual staff fundraiser 'Tour de Branch'. This event, which involves staff and their families cycling or walking a number of routes around the organisation's 23-strong local branch network, has raised nearly £60,000 for local charities in the last 6 years.
Studio 18
Supporting Sue Ryder Care in Bristol by providing photography services at all local events.
http://www.studio18photography.co.uk/
Timothy Taylor & Co Ltd
Corporate partners in the ‘Keighley Manorlands Challenge’ which organises several events each year raising £51k in 2007
Yorkshire Regiment of the Territorial Army
Corporate partners in the ‘Keighley Manorlands Challenge’ which organises several events each year raising £51k in 2007
Baker Tilley
Corporate partners in the ‘Keighley Manorlands Challenge’ which organises several events each year raising £51k in 2007 and it’s their Keighley branch.
www.bakertilly.co.uk
Gordons LLP
Corporate partners in the ‘Keighley Manorlands Challenge’ which organises several events each year raising £51k in 2007
Bradford & Bingley
"A core part of Bradford & Bingley's Corporate Social Responsibility programme is support for the communities in which we live and work. It being our heartland, our presence in the West Yorkshire region, in particular the Aire Valley, is deep rooted and extensive. We therefore ask our employees and customers to tell us which charities and community projects they would like us to support. The Sue Ryder Care Hospice at Manorlands has always proved to be very popular with our 1,200 head office staff in the Aire Valley and was chosen by them, through our staff survey, to be the charity of the year for 2006 and 2008. The hospice fundraisers have been extremely professional in all our dealings with them and clearly believe in a two way partnership between company and charity. For these reasons, we will be continuing our support for them. The partnership has so far raised in almost £25,000 since 2004."
Paul Mitchell
Community Affairs Manager
Bradford & Bingley
www.bbg.co.uk
