Charity Links 12/03/2012

Whitehead Monckton, one of Kent's largest firms of lawyers and investment managers, has named chYps children's hospice as its 'Charity of the Year' for 2012

For more information on this please click on: http://www.whitehead-monckton.co.uk/about/news/news-stories/whitehead-monckton-names-chyps-as-its-charity-of-the-year-to-support-during-2012

Lloyds Banking Group has announced it will extend its charity partnership with Save the Children until the end of June 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/node/2411

Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) today (Tuesday 14 February, 2012) announced the airport’s 12 chosen charities (see logos at end of release) for the 2012 Coin Collection.  Under the scheme passengers are encouraged to donate and loose sterling, foreign coins or notes. Since it started over a decade ago the initiative has raised thousands of pounds for charities in the region.

The charities are: Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Saint Michael’s Hospice, Caring for Life, Candlighters, The Forgotten Heroes, Yeadon Charities Association, Friends of Highbury School Development Fund, One in a Million, The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust, Martin House Children’s Hospice, NSPCC (Yorkshire), The Royal British Legion and the Poppy Appeal (South and West Yorkshire).

For more information on this please click on: http://www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk/about-the-airport/news/2012-02-15-charities

Action on Hearing Loss is the chosen charity of the Music Producers Guild (MPG) Awards for the fourth year in a row.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/news-and-events/all-regions/news/action-on-hearing-loss-are-charity-partners-for-music-industry-oscars.aspx

MEMBERS of the Plympton Gardeners' Association raised over £500 for their charity of the year Bowel Cancer West.

Benenden Healthcare Society, one of the UK's leading health & wellbeing mutual organisations, today announced its charities of the year being Action for Children and Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.benenden.org.uk/press-and-media-centre/latest-news/benenden-healthcare-announces-its-charities-of-the-year-for-2012-30209

Norwich City's official charity partner, the Community Sports Foundation

Wells Leisure Centre will be taking part in a six-hour cycle race to raise money for the British Heart Foundation, the company's charity partner. Avalon Leisure

In celebration of Cambridge Edition’s first birthday this month, we are delighted to announce the launch of our Charity of the Year initiative. The first charity that we’ll be partnering with will be the Rosie Hospital Campaign

For more information on this please click on: http://www.cambsedition.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91:charity&catid=4:news&Itemid=2

AliveFor more information on this please click on:  & Kicking is delighted to announce that we have been chosen as CLARITY’s charity of the year for 2012. The PR firm which counts Intel and Harbottle & Lewis amongst its clients will offer Alive & Kicking the support of its staff throughout the year.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.aliveandkicking.org.uk/clarity-announce-alive-kicking-as-charity-of-the-year-2012-and-launch-1-per-facebook-like-campaign/

EXCHANGE Ilford shopping centre has announced Frenford Clubs for Young People as its Charity of the Year for 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.yellowad.co.uk/news.cfm?id=5923&headline=Shopping%20centre%20announces%20charity%20of%20the%20year%20for%202012

NFU Wales has chosen the Alzheimer's Society as it's charity to support in 2012.

FASHION retailer M & Co, which has a branch in Sidmouth, is on the hunt for its 2012 National Charity Partner.

The Yorkshire Building Society, the UK's second largest building society, has chosen the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) as its charity of the year for 2012.

John Lewis Kingston has announced The Joel Community Trust as its 2012 Charity of the Year.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.johnlewispresscentre.com/Press-Releases/John-Lewis-Kingston-announces-Charity-of-the-Year-11e8.aspx

Community retailer The Midcounties Co-operative is celebrating after raising £ 170000 for its charity partner Women's Aid in just one year.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.midlandsbusinessnews.co.uk/2012-02/midcounties-raises-%C2%A3170,000-for-charity-partner-women's-aid.aspx

Bloodstock announce Teenage Cancer Trust as charity partner

For more information on this please click on: http://www.summerfestivalguide.co.uk/Festival_News/EntryId/725/Bloodstock-announce-Teenage-Cancer-Trust-as-charity-partner.aspx

Deutsche Bank UK in 2011 selected The Eve Appeal and War Child as their 2011 Charities of the Year

For more information on this please click on: http://www.db.com/csr/en/corporate_volunteering/coty_spreads_to_other_countries.html

The Isle of Man Parkinson's Disease Society has been chosen as the BEST WESTERN Palace Hotel & Casino's charity for 2012.

Roke selects the The Joe Glover Trust as their Charity of the Year 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.roke.co.uk/20120206680/corporate-social-responsibility/roke-selects-the-the-joe-glover-trust-as-their-charity-of-the-year-for-2012.html

Buss Murton will be supporting Ellenorlions & chYps as our charity of the year 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.bussmurton.co.uk/our-community/charity-of-the-year/

For more information on this please click on: http://www.neurocare.org.uk/support-us/your-charity-of-the-year/  

HomeServe's  charity partner is Marie Curie Cancer Care and has been since November 2009

Charity Links 9/03/2012

BOURNEMOUTH'S Highcliff Marriott hotel has chosen Poole-based Lewis-Manning Hospice as its charity of the year 2012.

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has partnered with national charity Groundwork to celebrate both charities' work to get local communities gardening and involve more people in transforming neighbourhoods

STAFF at Welwyn Garden City's John Lewis store in the town centre have raised £3500 for their charity of the year, Herts Young Homeless.

http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/john_lewis_support_for_young_hertfordshire_homeless_charity_1_1226556

http://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/newsandevents/news/2012/february/28/twelve_charity_challenges_in_2012_for_notts_police_employee/

The special edition of the Superyacht Cup coming to Cowes in 2012 has announced Sail4Cancer as the official charity for the regatta event.

http://www.cowes.co.uk/Superyacht-Cup-announce-official-charity-partner.aspx

Random House Group recently presented Freedom From Torture, the company's staff-nominated charity of the year with a cheque for £24,500.

Avalon Leisure's corporate charity partner is The British Heart Foundation.

Middlesex County Cricket Club's charity partner for the 2012 and 2013 seasons will be Shooting Star CHASE, who run children's hospices in Hampton and Guildford.

107 Spark FM are proud to announce our chosen charity for 2012 is the Grace House North East Children's Hospice Appeal.

RBC Wealth Management have raised £32800 for Jersey Hospice Care, their chosen Charity of the Year for 2011

The Guernsey branch of Cancer Research UK was RBC Wealth Management's chosen Charity of the Year in 2011

http://www.cancersupportscotland.org/fundraising/corporate/charity-of-the-year.html

STAFF and customers at Marks and Spencer in North Swindon have raised nearly £2500 for Prospect Hospice in the last year. As part of the store's ongoing Charity of the Year scheme.

Glossy magazine distributors Frontline Ltd, in Midgate, raised much-needed funds for their charities of the year, Anna's Hope and the Alzheimer's Society

Innovation Sports are very proud to announce Starfish Greathearts Foundation as our offical charity in 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.innovationsports.co.uk/starfish-charity-of-the-year.html

Linklaters has been named Corporate Supporter of the Year by The Albert Kennedy Trust  at its recent Alberts Awards.

For more information on this please click on: http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory/7075/7/03/2012/linklaters-named-akts-corporate-supporter-of-the-year-.aspx

Streets Alive has partnered up with Parkinson's UK as a leading charity for residents to raise funds for during street parties.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.streetparty.org.uk/newsitem.aspx?item=79

Norwood, one of the UK’s leading social care organisations, has been chosen by top international law firm SJ Berwin as one of its Charities of the Year alongside Cancer Research UK, the British Heart Foundation and NSPCC. The legal giant, headquartered in London, has set itself a £1million Charity Challenge for 2012 and will distribute the proceeds between the four good causes.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.norwood.org.uk/contact-us/pr-media/2012-press-releases/pr-sj-berwin.htm

Mendip District Council are pleased to announce Positive Action on Cancer, a Frome based charity as their Charity of the Year 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.mendip.gov.uk/NewsArticleM.asp?id=SX9452-A783AC63

The management and staff at Intire Lettings and Property Management in Bristol have voted CLIC Sargent as it's charity of the year 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.intire.co.uk/Blogs/198/2012-Charity-of-the-year---CLIC-Sargent.aspx

WellChild has been announced as the Official Charity Partner of the England and Great Britain Hockey teams as part of launch of The npower Big Dribble.

For more information on this please click on: http://englandhockey.co.uk/page.asp?section=1054&sectionTitle=WellChild%2C+Official+Charity+Partner

NASS is delighted to have been named charity of the year by Working at Height Limited.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.nass.co.uk/news/nass-named-charity-of-the-year-by-working-at-height-ltf/

Colchester Institute sees Essex Air Ambulance announced as their Charity of the Year 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.colchester.ac.uk/news/colchester-institute-hosts-charity-year-launch-day-essex-air-ambulance   

AXA Commercial Lines has chosen Help The Hospices as its first charity partner.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.littlehamptongazette.co.uk/news/regional/axa_staff_support_help_the_hospices_1_3569487

The Original Factory Shop in Wells is set to make a difference to St John Ambulance after it has been chosen as its charity partner for 2012

For more information on this please click on: http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Ambulance-chosen-charity-2012/story-15297814-detail/story.html

The Royal Mail will choose their new charity partner this spring, Working closely with the CWU and have drawn up a shortlist of 3.

For more information on this please click on:  https://www.myroyalmail.com/mrm/appnews/default.aspx?i=590

Coutts' Products, Services & Marketing Department has appointed London's Air Ambulance as its Charity Partner for 2012.

Creaseys, the Tunbridge Wells-based accountancy firm, has named local charity Tunbridge Wells Crisis Recovery (TWCR) as its 'charity of the year'.

The Leeds office of national law firm Irwin Mitchell presented a donation of over £8,400 to the Leeds Children’s Charity, the firm’s 2011 Charity of the Year.

A year long fundraising initiative by employees at Midlands based smoke and natural ventilation specialist, SE Controls, an has generated more than £12,000 for national cancer support charity, Macmillan.

Macmillan Cancer Support was chosen by SE Controls as their 2011 Charity of the Year.

The Original Factory Shop has chosen the Lincolnshire Air Ambulance as its charity partner for 2012 following an appeal for the local community to put forward suggestions for good causes to support.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Shop-aiming-high-charity-support/story-15290737-detail/story.html

Ruddi's Retreat, a charity based in Linthwaite, Huddersfield are the latest organisation to become involved in Huddersfield Town Football club's Charity Partnership.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.htafc.com/page/CharityPartnership/0,,10312~2619619,00.html

Bristol Roller Derby has announced that throughout 2012 they will be supporting domestic abuse charity Survive having named it their charity of the year 2012.

The Panathlon Challenge has been chosen as London Stansted Airport's inaugural charity partner of the year 2012 after coming top in a staff vote. The Essex-based charity works with schools across the South East and organises sporting competitions for disabled youngsters.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/london_stansted_airport_announces_its_first_ever_charity_partner_of_the_year_1_1215313

THE Original Factory Shop in Hawick has been chosen as the official charity partner of the Anthony Mundell Memorial Fund.

The Original Factory Shop in Corsham has chosen a playgroup helping children with special needs to be their charity partner for 2012. Springboard Opportunity Nursery is based in Lodge Road, Chippenham.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/9541524.Corsham_store_chooses_charity_of_the_year/

Retirement specialist McCarthy & Stone has made a great start to 2012, raising over £2000 for their Charity of the Year, Barnardo's.

Dunnhumby have chosen to support CHICKS as their Charity of the Year.

Charity Links 8/03/2012

Cititec are pleased to be supporting the following UK charities:

Haven House Childrens Hospice, Hackney City Farm and Toynbee Hall

For more information on this please click on: http://www.cititec.com/about-us/csr/charity-of-the-year/

CENTREPOINT SELECTED AS CREDIT SUISSE's UK CHARITY OF THE YEAR 2012

For more information on this please click on: http://www.centrepoint.org.uk/media/148115/120112_centrepoint_selected_as_credit_suisse_s_uk_charity_of_the_year_2012.pdf

David Lloyd Leisure has joined forces with Gold Challenge, the UK’s only Olympic and Paralympic sport-based charity challenge, to launch a bespoke initiative giving members the chance to try new Olympic sports – while raising money for the children’s charity Right To Play.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9169626.htm

Yorkshire Building Society has unveiled the RNLI as its charity of the year 2012.Last year the Yorkshire Building Society raised £175,000 for The Alzheimer’s Society, its chosen charity in 2011.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/news/local/sos_day_for_lifeboat_crew_1_4219438

Landmark Information Group (the leading provider of property related geo-spatial and environmental information) is launching a new partnership with humanitarian aid charity, MapAction, which will run throughout 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.geoconnexion.com/geo_news_article/Landmark-and-MapAction-partner-for-charity/12643

BGL Group is offering their employees the opportunity to take part in a charity trek in China.

The trek, which will take place in April 2012, aims to raise over £100,000 for the insurance firm’s charity partner, Marie Curie Cancer Care.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/item/14405/23/5/3

Principality Building Society and St David’s Centre in Cardiff city centre have chosen Cancer Research Wales to be the beneficiary of a variety of fundraising activities they will hold throughout 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://crw.org.uk/we-are-%E2%80%98charity-of-the-year%E2%80%99-for-two-major-supporters/

Reeds Rain Estate Agents, based in Evesham High Street, has made Macmillan Cancer Support its charity of the year for 2012

For more information on this please click on: http://www.eveshamobserver.co.uk/2012/01/09/news-Estate-agent-launches-charity-campaign-26776.html

BAQUS Construction Consultancy is pleased to announce Article 25, the UK’s leading built environment charity, as our chosen charity of the year for 2012

For more information on this please click on: http://www.baqus.co.uk/news/entry/baqus_construction_consultancy_announces_charity_of_the_year_for_2012

BVNA Charity of the Year 2012. The British Veterinary Nursing Association ( BVNA) is delighted to welcome The Retired Greyhound Trust as its Official Charity partner for 2012

For more information on this please click on: http://www.bvna.org.uk/smartweb/about-us/news-story/135

Bowel Cancer UK is absolutely delighted to have been chosen as Majestic Wine's Charity of the Year 2012

For more information on this please click on: http://blog.majestic.co.uk/2012/01/10/majestic-chooses-bowel-cancer-uk-as-charity-of-the-year/

YMCA Central Herts have been chosen as The Comet Newspaper's Charity of the Year

For more information on this please click on: http://www.ymcacentralherts.org.uk/news.php/93/charity-of-the-year-2012

Kent Air Ambulance has been chosen as the KentOnline Charity of The Year.

The charity, which is based in Marden near Maidstone, provides a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) for everyone living, working and travelling in the county each day.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/january/10/kent_air_ambulance.aspx

The Carers Centre are delighted to announce that we are the chosen charity of the Year 2012 by The Chaplaincy Team East Midlands Airport.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.claspthecarerscentre.org.uk/latest?newsNumber=1208

Openwork Foundation will partner with The Princess Royal Trust for Carers until 2014.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.openwork.uk.com/2012/01/new-national-charity-partner-announced/

MARIE Curie Cancer Care has been chosen by the Irish Football Association as their official charity partner for 2012. Announcing the partnership, the Irish FA's Head of Marketing and Communications, Geoff Wilson

For more information on this please click on: http://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/sport/football/ifa_signs_up_marie_curie_cancer_care_as_charity_partner_1_3473793

London Luton Airport announces Sue Ryder as New Charity Partner for 2012 and 2013

For more information on this please click on: http://www.sueryder.org/news.php/632/london_luton_airport_announces_sue_ryder_as_new_charity_partner_for_2012_and_2013

For 2012, the Lincolnshire Coop members have chosen to support not one, but two charities – Plan and Pascal.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.lincolnshire.coop/your-community/charity-of-the-year.aspx

The People newspaper has chosen Help the Hospices as its charity of the year for 2012.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/estate_agents_to_help_rudolf_fund_1_3445544

Agenda announces Dove House as 2012 Charity of the Year.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.agendasecuritynews.co.uk/agenda-announces-dove-house-as-2012-charity-of-the-year/

Winckworth Sherwood Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is recognition of the relationship a firm has with its staff, its community and the wider environment.

For more information on this please click on the following links: http://www.wslaw.co.uk/about-us/corporate-social-responsibility/firm-charity-of-the-year/

http://www.wslaw.co.uk/about-us/corporate-social-responsibility/firm-charity-of-the-year/

http://www.wslaw.co.uk/about-us/corporate-social-responsibility/

Travel company, Stanley Travel’s first Charity of the Year is Heel & Toe Childrens Charity.Heel and Toe provides free therapy to children with Cerebral Palsy, Dyspraxia and any other movement conditions.

For more information on this please click on: http://www.heelandtoe.org.uk/2012/01/24/heel-toe-is-stanley-travels-first-charity-of-the-year/

Other Charity weblinks and other Corporate "Charity of the Year" News that may be of interest to you:

• Peugeot UK has today kick-started its 2012 plans by announcing that working with its Dealer network, the Brand has agreed to become official charity partner with the BBC's Children in Need.
• Supermarket Tesco has chosen Cancer Research UK as its Charity of the Year for 2012.
• Healing the Wounds are looking for Corporate Sponsorship in order to help raise funds etc for their work.
• For more information on this please click on: http://www.healingthewounds.co.uk/index.php/fundraise/corporate-support/charity-of-the-year
• More than £45000 has been raised by staff at a housing association in Greater Manchester which is working in partnership with a charity. City West, which provides social housing throughout West Salford, Greater Manchester, began supporting Kidney
• For more information on this please click on: http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/business_benefits_from_partnership_1_3472542
• Newcastle-based engineering firm Siemens Energy Service has announced their Charity of the Year partnership with the homelessness charity The Cyrenians.
• Women's rugby website www.scrumqueens.com has nominated SKRUM as its Charity of the Year for 2012. SKRUM is a charity which uses rugby to educate children in Africa on HIV and AIDS.
• Société Générale has announced their 2012 Charity of the Year as being Stonewall Equality.
• Swindon-based pen manufacturer Pentel raised more than £46500 for their 2011 Charity of the Year, Prostate Cancer Charity.
• Apogee Corporation, who are a UK independent supplier of digital office solutions and managed print services, has chosen Help a Capital Child as its Charity of the Year for 2012.
• The Prince's Trust is one of a number of charities who are competing in a staff vote to be Fujitsu's Charity of the Year.

• The Welwyn Hatfield Times has announced its charity of the year for 2012 is The Isabel Hospice.
• In 2011, Dean's Garden Centre has nominated Scarborough Mind as its Charity of the Year with regional branches in York, Whitby and Ryedale.

http://www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/east/news_detail?articleid=746154

http://www.ellis-fermor.co.uk/other-services/services-to-charities/amber-valley-cids/

http://rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/press_centre/news_releases/news_release_detail?articleid=749600

http://www.trentbarton.co.uk/news-and-media/newsletter/feb121/article/feb12g

http://www.positiveactiononcancer.co.uk/frome-triathlon-club-choose-pac-as-charity-of-the-year

http://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/news-and-media/media-centre/press-releases/2012/1175-dsa-delighted-to-be-working-with-new-charity-of-the-year-partner-for-2012.html