A major Cumbrian group has raised almost £20,000 for a cancer charity.
Staff from across H&H Group’s companies have been fundraising for two years for Cancer Research UK and the firm has handed over £19,740 as a result.
It has been one of the principal charities chosen for fundraising support over the past couple of years by H&H Group.
The group’s record total was raised in a series of events, including a hugely successful H&H Land & Estates Charity Ball responsible for £13,000, and the support of staff and clients participating in fundraising initiatives such as the Great North Run, Gelt Gladiators, Walk All Over Cancer and Christmas Jumper Day.
It has also been the charity supported throughout by the H&H 200 Club and by all seven of the Harrison & Hetherington livestock auction marts, and it has been the charity promoted at the major national livestock showcase events, Dairy Expo and Agri Expo, held at the flagship Borderway mart in Carlisle.
H&H Group CEO Richard Rankin said: “All our staff have made an incredible commitment to fundraising for this wonderful charity, and it is entirely due to their efforts that we have the privilege of making the largest charitable contribution H&H Group has ever raised to Cancer Research UK.
“One in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives, and the success of the treatment available to us will owe a great deal to the work of the scientists funded by the charity.”
Emma Teare, Cancer Research UK relationship manager for North East England and Cumbria said: “Your £19,740 donation will have a massive impact and the work that we do and is hugely appreciated by everyone here, all of our scientists and researchers, and indeed everyone that is currently going through or has been through a cancer journey.
“Our vision is to help everyone live longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer; and with the help and support of fabulous fundraisers like you, we have made some great progress.”
H&H Group’s companies include Harrison & Hetherington, H&H Insurance Brokers, HH Reeds, H&H Auction Rooms and H&H Land & Estates.
