Bank staff fund-raising for charities
BANK staff at the Kegworth data centre have raised more than £3,000 for a range of worthy causes.
The Royal Bank of Scotland staff have been busy supporting charities including Headway, the British Heart Foundation and Race for Life.
Headway, a charity helping people affected by brain injury, inspired the data management and business intelligence team to complete the Monkey Island March across the county to raise £500.
In three separate efforts the teams at the centre raised £3,036.81 for the British Heart Foundation. One group of fund-raisers pushed the pedal in the Kegworth to Gogarburn cycle challenge and raised £1,827. Gogarburn is the bank’s headquarters in Scotland. Four teams of six had to cycle 52 miles each, covering a distance of 1,248 miles between them.
Another initiative saw participants get together to pound the ground on a 20-mile route around Kegworth and, with kind contributions from colleagues, £781.81 was raised.
Added to this was a raffle hosted by the Workplace Service Centre that raised a total of £428 this was all as part of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Do Good Feel Good campaign which encourages staff to donate their time to worthy causes.
Margret Finnie, Rose Brown and her mum completed the Race For Life, with Margret raising £180.
Commitment to helping the local community in Kegworth is a key and colleagues volunteered at a local school, a forest lodge and a hospice, weeding gardens, clearing waste, improving paths, planting new trees and creating a memorial garden for Douglas Macmillan Hospice.