BUILDING society colleagues have raised more than £2,160 for Marie Curie Cancer Care in a charity shop challenge in Bradford and Shipley.
Two teams from the Yorkshire Building Society’s corporate affairs team descended on the charity shops on Darley Street in Bradford and Market Square in Shipley to help drum up trade, encourage donations and sign up volunteers for Marie Curie.
The challenge was part of the Hour of Need campaign - Yorkshire Building Society Group’s most ambitious charity drive in its 150 year history, it aims to raise £500,000 by December 2016.
Every £20 raised during the Hour of Need campaign will fund one hour of care, Ben Dobson, the society’s corporate responsibility co-ordinator, said: “I’d like to thank everyone who came down on the day and helped us to raise a fantastic amount of money for Marie Curie which would equate to about 108 hours of nursing care.”
The project was part of Actionteering – the society’s scheme which gives each colleague two days’ paid leave to help out at a good cause of their choice.
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