Our chosen charities for 2008/9
Every year Rathbones holds an employee ballot, from a selection of local national and international charities nominated by employees, to select its charity of the year. In early 2008, The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and Help For Heroes were chosen through the employee ballot. These charities will be the focus of a range of group-wide activities for two years.
- The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is the only charity in UK wholly dedicated to defeating lung cancer. The Foundation began in 1990 as The Lung Cancer Fund. In 1992, entertainer and celebrity Roy Castle was diagnosed with lung cancer. A lifelong non-smoker, he adopted a positive attitude to his situation and dedicated the last year of his life to promoting the work of the charity, to which he lent his name.
- Help for Heroes is a civilian initiative to raise money in support of the wounded servicemen and women injured in the line of duty in the current and continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The initial appeal was launched on 1 October 2007 with a target of £6 million to build a new hydrotherapy swimming pool and gymnasium complex at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) at Headley Court, the premier rehabilitation centre in the UK for the serving injured.
Rathbones’
charity of the year in 2007 was Great Ormond Street Hospital. During the
year our staff raised over £6,500 to which Rathbones
added a further £5,000.
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