At my work - BNY Mellon - we have a Charity Dress Down Day once a month. Employees are encouraged on this particular Friday to come to work in the jeans or casual clothes and pay £1 for the privilege, this money raised that day is then given to a charity nominated by an employee and vetted by our Community Partnership Committee. It is so popular that there is now a waiting list extending to next Spring to get your chosen charity on board. Having been on the waiting list for some time it was WaterAid's turn this month, along with 2 charities nominated by my colleagues Katrina and Fiona. Fiona was raising money for Action Medical Research by completing a challenge known as "Race the Sun" down in the Lake District and Katrina has recently completed a half marathon for a charity close to her heart - The Histiocytosis Research Trust. Both girls were keen to raise additional funds for the charities and so we arranged to work together and split the proceeds equally. Fiona got to work making posters for our day to raise awareness of our charities and remind people to participate on the day.
On the day Katrina and I donned our charity T-shirts and set about the office rattling our buckets! I asked Katrina to cover our floor as after my sponsorship form doing the rounds and my cake sales I was rather embarrassed to be asking for more money even when it's for such a good cause! While she was doing that I covered the 2nd floor and we then covered the remaining floors together. We also asked some colleagues at our other office on Lothian Road to help us out and were delighted when they agreed. In total £303 was raised from the two offices, resulting in £101 each, we were delighted! Thanks to Craig on the CPP committee for taking responsibility for counting it all up for us and thanks to each and every colleague who supported us with this event!
On the day Katrina and I donned our charity T-shirts and set about the office rattling our buckets! I asked Katrina to cover our floor as after my sponsorship form doing the rounds and my cake sales I was rather embarrassed to be asking for more money even when it's for such a good cause! While she was doing that I covered the 2nd floor and we then covered the remaining floors together. We also asked some colleagues at our other office on Lothian Road to help us out and were delighted when they agreed. In total £303 was raised from the two offices, resulting in £101 each, we were delighted! Thanks to Craig on the CPP committee for taking responsibility for counting it all up for us and thanks to each and every colleague who supported us with this event!
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