Staff at Ageas Insurance Ltd held a charity day on Friday 28th February at their offices. This included a dress down day, cake sale and a raffle and the event raised a wonderful £3,266.62.
“The company I work for regularly holds a charity day where anyone can come into work for the day wearing casual clothes and pay £1 which goes to the choice of charity that particular day. Around November 2013 employees were asked for nominations of a charity to support so I requested CRY.
I only lost my partner to sudden cardiac arrest in September so I didn’t know if I was ready to do anything like this but then I realised that I am still here and I need to do what I can to help prevent others from going though the same thing and do something positive.
In January it was announced that CRY had been one of the chosen charities for 2014 and the day to support it would be the 28th February. This gave me 4 weeks to prepare.
Me and a good friend/work colleague walked into the local shopping promenade near our work place several lunch times speaking to local businesses asking for their help. I planned to hold a raffle and desperately needed prizes. After a couple weeks we started getting more and more prizes donated. We had friends donate unwanted Christmas presents, local businesses donating vouchers, we even had a bicycle donated by Landover, some watches and jewellery by Skagen, and a signed autograph by CRY patron Pixie Lott!
As the number of prizes grew (over 90), the more tickets we were selling.
The 28th February arrived; we had 300 Innocent Smoothies turn up along with all the homemade cakes, CRY wristbands and hungry staff ready for a busy day ahead.
After selling nearly all the cakes and drink, doing a little bit of nail painting in the staff room and of course the raffle, we managed to raise a total of £3266.62 for Cardiac Risk in the Young. Everyone has been so kind, supportive and generous, and without their help we wouldn’t have raised this amount. It’s been really helpful having something to focus on, and knowing that the money raised could save a young life makes it so worth while.”
Laura Miles
