Celebrating our charity partnership with Birmingham Mind
Creating positive social value is something we take seriously as a business, and strive to achieve through the work we do with clients and more widely. A key part of our social value commitment is to donate 5% of our profits to charity each year. We asked staff to vote for a charity of the year back in 2021 and Mind was one of the names that came up, as we have worked with them for several years on a number of research and evaluation projects. In the end, we chose our local Mind, Birmingham Mind.
Over the last 2 years, we have donated a total of £35,864! This is made up of:
5% of our profits (£33,852)
Fundraised an additional £2k+ through a variety of activities including:
Birmingham 10k run 🏃♀️
Smoothie bike ride 🚲
Cake sale 🎂
60 miles in 7 days’ team challenge to celebrate Birmingham Mind’s 60th anniversary 🚶♂️
Some of the team also volunteered at the Mental Elf Run in December 2023 🧝♂️
Working with Kerrie Henry-Edge at Birmingham Mind has been amazing – Kerrie and Rachel McNair gave us loads of ideas on what we could do to fundraise and invited us to take part in fundraising activities they were sponsoring.
We are hugely proud to have delivered what we have and know that the money we have donated will have a positive impact. Thanks to Kerrie Henry-Edgeand Birmingham Mind and keep up the amazing work you do!
We will soon announce our new Charity Partner. Watch this space…
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