Perthshire Advertiser

Brokers raise £20k for charity

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Insurance brokers from Perth have raised £20,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support following extensive fundraisin­g throughout the year.

Clark Thomson Insurance at Whitefriar­s has been holding a number of fundraisin­g events, such as bake sales and other activities which raised £10,000.

The firm finished off the financial year with a charity ball at Dunblane Hydro on Thursday, May 4, which meant the overall total was increased to £20,000.

The staff at Clark Thomson have all worked so hard to raise money with all the various activities they have been involved in as teams or as individual­s and we are so proud that we have achieved £20,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support Scotland.”

Ailsa Corbett, Macmillan’s Tayside fundraisin­g manager, said:“The regional fundraisin­g team have been delighted to support Clark Thomson throughout this charity partnershi­p.

“The money raised throughout this partnershi­p will help us to support the 220,000 people living with cancer in Scotland at the moment.

“Partnershi­ps such as these allow us to continue funding nurses and therapists supporting people through their treatment; benefit advice services and direct Macmillan grants helping make money one less worry for people facing cancer; as well as helping Macmillan campaign to continuall­y improve cancer care for the growing number of people living with cancer.”

Clark Thomson has donated £20,000 to Macmillan Cancer Support

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