PropSKI 2013 Launch event is “outright success”
The industry’s young guns gathered on the wintry slopes of the French Alps to launch an event set to become a fixture on the property networking calendar.
PropSKI 2013 attracted 100 surveyors from more than 40 different companies, lured by the opportunity to build business relationships amid the powdery Alpine setting of Val Thorens.
There was hardly time to be idle, with a schedule of events including a mountain meal and welcome drinks party, the Macdonald & Company Race Day – with timed individual and team slaloms – and the Promap Mountain Challenge – an orienteering exercise and valley treasure hunt.
There was some impressive competitive spirit on display helped, we presume, by the £2,000 of Salomon skis and snowboards up for grabs – and the PropSKI silverware, of course.
Event organiser Will Chambers of Jones Lang LaSalle said: “The support from sponsors and participation of the attendees made it an outright success and thoroughly enjoyable event. Bring on PropSKI 2014.”
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Balloons head skyward for charity
Property consultancy firm Bruton Knowles took its 150th anniversary celebrations sky high, launching more than 100 red balloons in aid of charity.
The Birmingham team, along with folk from Harborne Parish Lands Charity, had a gas racing their sponsored helium-filled balloons, with the owner of the one travelling the farthest winning an impressive hamper.
The money raised went to the charity, which provides social housing to the elderly, vulnerable and those with restricted mobility.
Bruton Knowles associate David Walton (pictured, left) said: “It felt appropriate to help support the fantastic work the charity does for residents of the parish.”
Propco gets a handle on Bag-athon
Hooray to British Land, which bagged a staggering £114,931 worth of cash and once-loved goods in aid of the British Heart Foundation.
The company rallied troops across its 36 UK retail assets to become the largest landlord donor – for the third year running – in the Great British Bag-athon.
As part of the challenge, donation bags were handed out to retailers and shoppers who were then encouraged to fill them with clothes, CDs, DVDs and books worth £20. They were then donated to local British Heart Foundation shops.
The BL contingent contributed 5,496 bags in total.
