The Argyll Club has completed its London 2 London fundraising challenge, with employees, friends and family collectively “circling” the globe to raise more than £7,500 for charity.
More than 200 participants from 14 countries and four continents travelled virtually from The Argyll Club’s flagship London workspace at 1 Cornhill to its headquarters in St James’s Square – via the world. The team chose various modes of daily exercise, which included walking, cycling, hopping, skiing, roller skating, skipping and skateboarding, to complete a total distance of 25,000 miles.
The money raised will be donated to The Felix Project, a food redistribution charity helping to feed the 1.5m London adults who struggle to afford to eat every day, and NHS Charities Together, which supports charities which focus on help for NHS staff and volunteers.
Do Some Good for young LGBTQ+
A team of property professionals behind the Do Some Good initiative – a portal set up by professionals from SAY Property Consulting, deverellsmith and Greystar to pool real estate support during the Covid-19 crisis – is supporting akt, a charity helping young LGBTQ+ people aged 16-25 to find a safe place to live.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, akt has seen a spike in cases of homelessness owing to young people being confined and inadvertently or forcibly being outed to families and guardians.
akt is working alongside Purple Door, which provides the safety and space for young LGBTQ+ people to secure longer-term housing, employment, training and help with money management, while learning to live independently.
A survey by EG found that 81% of LGBTQ+ property professionals felt that not enough was being done nationwide within the industry to promote the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community. Purple Door is hoping to attract more support from the industry and, throughout June, Do Some Good will be raising awareness and promoting the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community through #seemenow on LinkedIn.
Focus Hotels offers rooms in Bristol for NHS staff
The DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre and Hampton by Hilton Bristol City Centre hotels are offering 25 complimentary rooms to NHS staff as a way of thanking them for their heroic efforts during the coronavirus crisis. Any key workers taking up the offer of accommodation will also be provided with a free “Grab and Go” breakfast.
Shaftesbury lends support to Covent Garden scheme
Shaftesbury has backed a new Covent Garden Community Centre Food Bank initiative in collaboration with the Felix Project and Camden Council, to support vulnerable adults and families in the local area affected by the pandemic. As proprietors in Seven Dials, Shafesbury has selected the CGCC project at the Dragon Hall Trust as one of the local charities and community groups in the West End it supports under its new Community Fund initiative. Other retailers from the Seven Dials community such as Tatty Devine, Deciem, Kiehl’s and Neal’s Yard Remedies, are supporting frontline workers by raising funds, offering discounts, and providing PPE and products for NHS staff.
SEGRO’s anniversary fund to make £10m payout
SEGRO’s Centenary Fund, launched to mark its 100th anniversary, is to award £10m to local community schemes in the UK and continental Europe over the next decade. Following the Covid-19 outbreak, the launch of the fund was brought forward in order to support the communities most affected by the pandemic. SEGRO has partnered with community foundations to deliver support to projects including Citizens Advice Bureau Camden and Hounslow, Tiny Toes Tiny Feet, SHOC (Slough Homeless Our Concern), Vineyard Community Church in Northamptonshire, Hospice Hope in Leicestershire and the Enterprise Club for Disabled People in Warwickshire.
Assura launches £3m fund for local health projects
Primary care property specialist Assura has launched a community fund amounting to £3m over the next five years to support health projects across the UK. It will build on the work of Assura’s existing Healthy Communities grant scheme, which has funded projects nominated by the GP practices in its buildings ranging from social prescribing walking groups, gardening schemes and coffee-and-chat sessions to support for a new Men’s Shed and a community bakery run by young people with learning disabilities.
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