A huge thank
you to the staff at our strategic corporate partner, Macquarie, who last week
organised two impressive fundraising events in support of ReachOut. These
events were arranged as a part of Macquarie Foundation Week, an annual
initiative which encourages staff globally to organise and participate in a
range of community events for various charities.
Our
relationship with Macquarie has grown and developed over the last 7 years.
Beginning with a few employees volunteering weekly as mentors on our projects
in Hackney, our relationship has evolved into a truly strategic partnership
that now sees the bank providing us with annual grants, hosting ReachOut events and employability workshops for our young people and encouraging its staff to volunteer regularly with us.
During
Macquarie Foundation Week, staff organised an intra-company football tournament
where teams of employees from across the bank could get competitive for a good
cause, battling it out on the football pitch to win the coveted ReachOut
Champions trophy. With 12 teams involved, there was some decent footie on show
as well as some rather cheesy team names – congratulations to the Credit
Crunchers who took home the trophy!
Following on
from the football tournament, staff then organised a rowathon in Macquarie’s
reception. Over the course of a day, 80 people took turns to see how fast they
could row 1,000m. Massive congratulations to our winners – Louis-Simon Huber
and Valerie Osband – who sprint rowed the target distance in 3.03mins and
3.38mins, respectively.
With very
generous matched funding from the Macquarie Group Foundation, employees raised
over £8,000 for ReachOut across the two events – a brilliant achievement!
Thanks again
and well done to all involved.
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