Harris Lipman News
Harris Lipman gets fundraising
24/01/2007
Harris Lipman have recently taken part in a series of fundraising
activities in order to raise money for a number of selected charities.
Towards the end of last year, the firm organised a jam-packed day of
fundraising which included the option for employees to pay to dress
down for the day or alternatively to pay to see somebody dress up,
such as Androulla who was sponsored to wear a wig all day. Joyce also
added her own individual contribution by charging people 50p a time
to make them a cup of coffee, whilst others members of the team brought
in homemade food to sell such as cakes and biscuits. Other activities
included a raffle, ten-pin bowling and a quiz.
On account of such team dedication, the Harris Lipman team collectively
raised an impressive total of £600 which has been divided equally
and donated to two equally important national charities; Children in
Need and Parent Project UK. Children in Need is the annual appeal organised
by the BBC which helps disadvantaged children and young people in the
UK, whilst Parent Project UK, is a charity that exclusively funds research
for a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). Affecting an estimated
one boy in every 3,000, DMD is a distressing disease which predominantly
affects young males, triggering rapidly progressive muscle weakness
which causes muscle wasting and often premature death.
Not only this, charity enthusiasts that they are, during the Christmas
season the Harris Lipman team also decided to donate money to charity
rather than giving out Christmas cards. This innovative idea resulted
in the accumulation of £1000 which was subsequently split and
distributed to three different charities; the North London hospice,
the St Helena hospice and Tenovus. The North London and St Helena hospices
both provide specialist palliative care while Tenovus is a British
medical research charity dedicated to the curing of cancer.
Martin Atkins partner at Harris Lipman comments: "As a firm we
feel that it is important to contribute to the wider community and
we have therefore undertaken a number of fundraising initiatives over
the past few months and have been delighted with the results.
"Everybody has got really involved in all of the schemes, getting
their family members and friends to contribute as well, and we have
therefore been able to raise quite considerable amounts. We have since
donated the money to a number of specifically chosen charities that
are quite close to all of our hearts for a variety of reasons."
Harris Lipman continually supports over 100 charities every year via
donations, advertisements in charity magazines, charity golf days and
various other fundraising activities.
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