Staff to raise funds for science block

Volunteers plan international action to help children at school

Volunteers with a leading Peterborough employer have drawn up a fund raising action plan to build vital education facilities overseas. Fifteen employees with financial services company theBGL Group are organising months of fund-raising events.

It is part of the company’s latest charity project in partnership with Build It International.

It involves the construction of a two-laboratory science block at Linda Community School, just outside Lusaka, in Zambia.

The science block will allow the school to offer practical science lessons andenable it to become an exam centre.

The 15 fund raisers, who have each been tasked with raising at least £2,000 towards the project, will travel to Lusaka in June to put the finishing touches to the science block.

The successful 15 include 10 staff from the BGL Group’s Peterborough head office, who are Katarina Djuric, Ben Whitehouse, Gareth Simpson, Hannah McIntosh, Amy Goodacre, SamanthaRonnay, Sherry Pestonji, Josh Daniels, Kirsty Pugh and Anne-Marie Coe

Anne-MarieCoe, wholeads the group’s CSRstrategy, said: “I’m excited to be making a hands-oncontribution to this project. We’re relishing the challenge of finding fun and creative ways to raise funds for the trip.”

The project is part of BGL’s corporate social responsibility strategy to improvethelives of more than 100,000 people by 2020, working internationally and in its local communities in the UK. The company intends to give £3 million to good causes and enable staff to carry out 75,000 hours of voluntary work.

Some of the BGL Group fundraisers.