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Automotive fintech firm DealTrak has pledged to raise upwards of £6,000 for Action for Children, as part of the charity’s annual ‘Byte Night’ – which will see hundreds of people sleeping rough in Leeds City Centre. The event is the UK’s largest national corporate sleepout, with individuals and teams spending the night in Millennium Square…
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Computershare Loan Services has donated £2,500 to Epilepsy Scotland to help people with the condition access benefits and improve their wellbeing. The charity says that confusion over benefit entitlements is a major source of distress for those with epilepsy, and the donation will help them employ a new full-time officer who will provide information on…
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Cabot Financial has selected the British Heart Foundation, the biggest independent funder of cardiovascular research in the UK, as its new corporate charity partner for 2019. The partnership will help in the charity’s aim of increasing awareness of heart and circulatory disease, raising funds for vital research into heart and circulatory conditions as well as…
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Automotive Finance & Insurance (F&I) technology specialist DealTrak has announced that the company has plans for 12 months of fundraising for a range of local and national charities – nominated and voted for by employees. A long-term supporter of Cancer Research UK (CRUK), the firm raised £1,448.91 for the charity in 2018, with further donations…
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Third-party mortgage servicer, Computershare Loan Services, has donated £5,000 to Citizens Advice Gateshead to support the charity’s efforts to combat financial hardship. The donation will contribute to the Dig Deep 2018 fundraising appeal to help the charity to extend its debt service to North East families who have been destabilised financially by serious medical life…
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Cabot Financial, the debt purchase arm for the Cabot Credit Management Group (CCM), raised £122,633 for two children’s hospices last year with £94,212 being donated to Demelza in Kent and £28,421 to Chestnut Tree House in Sussex. Cabot Financial has two sites in the UK, one in Kings Hill, Kent and one in Worthing in…
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Glasgow based debt advice firms, Creditfix and Carrington Dean have pledged their support to Shelter and Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity, with a raft of fundraising activities planned for 2019. Each year, 173,000 babies, children and young people are treated at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow. Through its partnership with Carrington Dean, Glasgow Children’s…
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TransUnion (formerly Callcredit) has raised a total of £19,500 for mental health charity Mind, with the money shared across five local Mind associations, as well as the national organisation. The different regions included Bromley & Lewisham Mind, City & Hackney Mind, Leeds Mind, St Helen’s Mind, and Stockport & District Mind, with TransUnion colleagues taking…
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Qualco UK’s annual charity golf tournament has raised £1,200 for charities Princess Alice Hospice and the Campaign against Living Miserably (CALM). The tournament took place at the historic St. George’s Hill Golf Club on Friday 23 November in Surrey. The course is rated 32nd in the 2018 Golf Digest ‘World’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses’ ranking.…
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Hitachi Capital has presented The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital charity with a cheque for £33,000 following a grueling four-day cycle from the UK to France. After vigorous training in the months before the 14 man team were waved off by staff from Hitachi Capital’s offices in Staines-Upon-Thames on Thursday 20th September. Over the course of…
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Qualco UK raised more than £1,700 for charities Princess Alice Hospice and the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) at its inaugural seven-a-side charity football tournament on Friday 2nd November. Teams from firms including Cabot Credit Management, Esme Loans, Sigma and Tesco Mobile competed across two leagues to secure the brand new Qualco Cup and Plate.…
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Computershare has donated £5,000 to Citizens Advice Tunbridge Wells and District to fund a project that helps people to understand their rights. The donation will allow the charity further to roll out their ‘Prescribed Advice’ service, in which Citizens Advice advisers are based in GP surgeries and available ‘on the spot’ to support patients with…
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Qualco UK has continued its pledge to support a tennis lending library for two Birmingham schools. In association with the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), Qualco launched the library in summer 2016 in a pioneering scheme that enables students to borrow and use the equipment to play tennis in their own time at home or in…
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