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Through-out the year, the staff at Last Cawthra Feather contribute to the local community through various charitable activities in both cash and in kind, examples of these activities include monthly dress down days, charity raffles, sponsored events, cake stalls and voluntary projects. Our employees are always encouraged to participate in fundraising and community projects wherever possible.
Each year, the staff at Last Cawthra Feather are asked to vote for charities in which they would like to support during that year. The 2010 selected charities include: Marie Curie Cancer Care and The British Heart Foundation.
Below are some of the projects from 2009:
In 2009 instead of sending Christmas cards to our colleagues and friends at work we instead asked staff, to make a donation of woolly hats, scarves, gloves and chocolate to the Bradford Soup Run. The Bradford Soup Run is a registered charity which offers free food, clothing and blankets to the homeless people of Bradford.
Five members of staff pulled on their festive Santa suits to take part in the Leeds Santa jog on Sunday 6th December to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.
Maurice and Karen Bearder, Caroline Chamberlain, Lucy Pollard and Simon Mordey all completed the jog in around 20 minutes, raising over £45 for the British Heart Foundation.
Over 150 festive Santa’s took part in 2km run around Clarence Dock in Leeds.
On the 30 October 2009 as part of the breast cancer campaign “Wear it Pink” we asked staff to make a £2 donation in order to wear something pink to work. We also had a pink cake sale at the Bradford office and in total raised £64.40 for Cancer research UK
Caroline Chamberlain and Lucy Pollard both successfully completed the Edinburgh moonwalk marathon on 20 June 2009. Caroline, Lucy and the rest of their team raised a total of £646.50 for Cancer Research.
Eight members of staff took part in this year’s race for life. Jacqui Rudden, Gemma Rae and Amy Marie Mullaney all took part in the Skipton race for life on 17 May and Alyson Littlefair, Theresa Leddy, Tracey Lawrence, Liz Jones and Helen Gott all took part in the 5k race around Lister Park in Bradford on the 7 June. Together the team raised over £600 for Cancer Research UK.
To celebrate and raise money for Comic relief we held various activities at each office including a dress down day, a cake sale and a sponsored red hair day. As a firm we raised a total of £175.34 for Comic Relief.