MEMBERNEWS IN BRIEF
Newby Castleman takes second place in relay
Four staff from chartered accountants Newby Castleman are celebrating after coming second in the Cummins Mixed Relay Challenge at the Leicester Marathon. The Newby Castleman
Gazelles finished in a time of three hours, 28 minutes and eight seconds, with each team member running a distance of just over six-and-a-half miles. Accountants Rebecca Chandler
and Andy Cowperthwaite were joined by Marketing Manager Nicola Cooper and Secretary Claire Percival to make up the relay team. The organisers set a target of
£15,000 for the Leicestershire and Rutland hospice, LOROS, and they have raised more than £12,500 to date.
Banner Jones staff take on half marathon for charity
Staff from Banner Jones Solicitors took on the Chesterfield Half Marathon Wellbeing Challenge recently, raising £1,570 for Ashgate Hospicecare, a North Derbyshire- based independent charity that provides specialist care to adults with life-limiting illnesses at its hospice, in the community and at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. The Wellbeing Challenge
required two people to run the half marathon, two people to run the five mile run and two to do the fun run. Stephen Gordon, Executive
Director and Half Marathon Runner from Banner Jones, said: “I’m thrilled we’ve raised over
£1,500 for Ashgate Hospicecare as it does such wonderful work in our town.”
Age UK needles region to join Big Knit campaign
It’s the return of the annual Big Knit campaign and Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland is calling on Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to join in and get knitting. Now in its 15th year, the campaign is recruiting knitters to help create an impressive 1.6 million hats to adorn innocent smoothie bottles. For each be- hatted smoothie sold, Age UK receives 25p, and that money helps the charity support older people who are facing later life alone. Tony Donovan, Executive
Director of Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland, said: “We need local people to join us and help knit as many miniature hats as possible this winter to help us hit our huge 80,000 local target.”
Dame Esther in call for more support for Childline
Celebrity Childline founder and President Dame Esther Rantzen met business leaders from across the East Midlands as she hosted a Chamber networking event. The event, organised by the
NSPCC and the Chamber, also marked the official opening of Childline’s new base in Nottingham. Held at the service’s new offices
in Clifton Avenue, the event gave business people from throughout the region a chance to hear about the vital work that Childline counsellors do every day. Childline urgently needs more
volunteers to keep up with the number of children seeking help and deal with the growing number of contacts from young people who often have nowhere else to turn. New figures reveal Childline in
Nottingham carried out 26,019 counselling sessions with children from across the UK in 2017/18. Childline has been in Nottingham
since 1988, but this new site has space for ten more counsellors, enabling more than 1,500 additional counselling sessions to be carried out with children each year. The five most common issues in
counselling sessions at the Nottingham base in 2017/18 were mental or emotional health, family relationships, suicide, bullying – both offline and online – and sexual health and relationships.
‘Childline has been in Nottingham since 1988, but this new site has space for ten more counsellors’
Dame Esther said: “These figures
show Childline is now more important than ever, offering vital
and life-changing support and advice to children around the clock.” Across the UK, 175,000 phone
calls and online chats from young people were lost to Childline last year due to increasing demand for online, evening and night-time counselling. Childline wants to be able to respond to tens of thousands more young people during the peak hours of 4pm and 1am.
Souper effort from students
The cameras rolled and the pans boiled in a joint fundraising initiative at West Nottinghamshire College, aimed at helping the homeless. Film and television production
students joined forces with catering
students to serve up soup to staff and students through the national Big Broth campaign. The Big Broth event is organised
by homelessness charity, CentrePoint. The idea for the fundraiser was the brainchild of students who are
currently studying on the NQC Level 2 Creative Media Production (Film and Television) course. They had recently researched information about the homelessness charity and the Big Broth event. Catering and hospitality diploma
students cooked up three flavours of soup for the event – mushroom, vegetable and carrot and coriander. Film and TV students recorded
guests’ perception on homelessness in the area and asked for their feedback on which flavour soup they had eaten in the college’s Relish restaurant. Media Tutor Jon Hall said: “The
Catering and hospitality students Kaden Pearson and Brandon Lawrence with film and television students Mason Bartle and Lisle Briggs
24 business network December 2018/January 2019
charity really struck a chord with the students as some of them have friends who are or who have been homeless. The event gave them a great opportunity to practice their interview skills on film as well as raising money for a worthwhile cause.”
Esther Rantzen
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