Shulmans raised more than £10,000 for its charity partner Leeds Mind in 2019.
Colleagues at the law firm organised a series of fundraising initiatives, including a team undertaking the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge and a sky dive, alongside its corporate social responsibility programme and its charitable events, such as “The Great Shulmans Bake Off”, monthly dress-down days and the annual boys vs girls netball match.
Shulmans will be fundraising for Leeds Cares during 2020.
What do you call a Scottish bear?
The steel bear sculpture at the mixed-use Hallhill development in Dunbar, East Lothian has been named the DunBear in a competition won by local student Emily Hotchkiss from Dunbar Grammar School. The competition to name the sculpture, created by Scottish artist Andy Scott, attracted more than 3,000 entries.
Sweet result for Hollis charities
Hollis has donated £3,000 to charity from its “Ho Ho Hollis” chocolate bar campaign. The firm gave branded chocolate bars to clients and contractors and asked them to post about them on social media and for each post Hollis made a donation to charity. The funds raised were split between Amsterdam UMC, Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer, the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, Focus Ireland, Acorns Hospice and construction industry charity Crash.
Once upon a time in Catford
Acorn Book Club, a book collecting initiative lead by estate agency Acorn Group, has completed its first community project of 2020.
The ABC charity, which works with local schools to provide all children with access to free reading material, has donated more than 700 books, along with colourful furnishing to create a sensory outdoor reading space for children at Holbeach Primary School in Catford, SE6.
Dates for your diary
LandAid Sleep Out
The final LandAid Sleep Out series event, sponsored by Hammerson and Knight Frank, takes place in London on 27 February. There are still places left if you would like to take part and help end youth homelessness. To sign up, go to: www.landaid.org/events/landaid-london-sleepout
MIPIM five-a-side
Goodman Derrick has teamed up with UK football charity Alive & Kicking to host a five-a-side football competition at MIPIM. The tournament, #56PLAYERS, takes place on Tuesday 10 March, at Cannes Soccer Fives on the Avenue de la Roubine. All funds raised by the event will aid the work of Alive & Kicking in Africa, where the charity uses football to create ethical jobs for adults and supports young people to live healthier lives. For more details and to sign up, go to: www.gdlaw.co.uk
Walkie Talkie climb
Join your property peers and climb the Walkie Talkie, 22 Fenchurch Street, EC3 on 29 February to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. For more information, go to: www.gosh.org/get-involved/fundraising-events/walkie-talkie-tower-climb
Vertical Rush
Scale Tower 42, EC2, in the Vertical Rush event, on 12 March in aid of homeless charity Shelter. More at: https://england.shelter.org.uk/support_us/events/charity_challenge/vertical_rush
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