Our Charity Work
In 2008 we created totem - a team of colleagues respresenting different areas of our business who discuss how best as a company we can support our UK charities and the events that individuals participate in. Divided into the totem living and giving, we review the requests for charitable support; giving something back and our living element is how we choose to reward the efforts of our colleagues overall.
In 2011 totem giving gave £83,000 in charitable donations including £10,000 to the DEC East African famine appeal. In additional to our international charity support we continue to support our local charities and community initiatives ranging from our local St Barnabas Hospice in Grantham to our continuing support of Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
In 2010 totem gave over £70,000 in charitable donations so far during 2010. We have supported and helped to match fund many events and causes including
- Save the Children Pakistan appeal - over £5,000 in response to the devastating floods
- Breast Cancer Care - our Wear it Pink Friday raised £301.91. Thanks to everyone who got into the spirit of the event and went that extra mile for this great charity.
- Save the Children Haiti appeal - our employees raised over £10,500 in just under three weeks in response to this appeal
- Lymphoma Research, Nottingham University Hospital Charity - Wendy Johnston ran the Polar half marathon to raise money for this charity and Totem matched her sponsorship total of £313.50.
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer Charity Ball - an annual Ball held in October for over 200 guests. In a repeat of last year, the Totem fund has given £1,000 in support of the Ball.
Help Lesotho - during 2008, two phases of volunteers visited Lesotho in support of the charity and its activities for six weeks at a time.
Vitalise - providing respite for people with disabilities and their carers we held fundraising events throughout 2006 and 2007 including a charity ball.