Towergate Insurance Help Raise Over £5m for Charities
Towergate truck insurance division based in Telford is
been part of a team which has raised over £5 million to help a
number of UK charities.
These include special projects at Cancer Research UK, Great
Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, the Hospice movement and
the NSPCC, which provides ChildLine. Towergate in Telford is also
twinned with Hope House Hospice in Oswestry to provide vital funds
for nursing care.
Since being established in 2008 the Towergate Charitable
Foundation has raised this huge amount through staff and client
donations. This comes at a time when the total charitable donations
to UK's charities has still not yet returned to the pre-recession
peak of 2007/8, when charities received £11.3 billion in charitable
donations when adjusted for inflation*.
Along with colleagues from other Towergate Insurance UK offices,
Towergate Insurance in Telford has worked with clients and
colleagues to raise this staggering amount, which has gone towards
the special projects including:
- Donating more than £586,000 to local hospices as well as
£540,000 to the central charity, Help the Hospices, who have
provided a range of grants to local hospices around the UK
including Hope house Hospice in Oswestry
- Funding the recruitment and training of volunteer counsellors
for ChildLine, NSPCC’s 24 hour helpline for children. ChildLine
confirms that an additional 41,000 vulnerable children have been
able to speak to a qualified counsellor as a result of the funds
raised by Towergate.
- Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital is now able to build an
additional two isolation units at their new hospital. They are also
carrying out essential research into child Leukaemia and Bone
Marrow transplants using the funds donated by Towergate.
- Cancer Research UK is progressing world leading research into
ways of preventing tumours from diverting the blood supply,
preventing their growth.
Larry Smith, Managing Director of Towergate Insurance in Telford
said, "I wish to thank my colleagues and our clients for their
outstanding contribution to these great charities. In these tough
economic times both our staff and clients have defied the odds by
going the extra mile to raise money through a range of local fund
raising events".
Esther Rantzen, President of Childline said, "These are tough
times for everyone particularly the most vulnerable, like children
suffering from neglect. The money Towergate Insurance has donated
to charities has transformed the lives of thousands of children who
had no one else to help and given up hope."
* The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and
the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in “UK Giving 2010
