Working with our community
As part of our commitment to having a positive impact on the community around us, we select a charity partner every two years and work alongside them with fundraising and volunteering. Over the past years we have partnered with a variety of charities:
Centrepoint - providing accommodation and support to people aged 16-25
Barnardo’s - a children’s charity, aimed at helping them feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful
Alzheimer’s Research UK - a dementia research charity
Leonard Cheshire - a charity providing support to people with disabilities, helping them to live, learn and work as independently as they choose, whatever their ability
Cancer Research UK - the world’s largest independent cancer research charity
Our new partnership with British Heart Foundation
For the next two years, as voted for by the whole firm, Odgers Berndtson’s charity partner is the British Heart Foundation (BHF). The BHF is a cardiovascular research body which funds medical research related to heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors, and runs influencing work aimed at shaping public policy and raising awareness. The money we raise for BHF will fund research that saves and improves people’s lives. That research will support people affected by a disease which can affect anyone and everyone. The research BHF funds will help prevention, provide diagnosis, treatment and cures. Their vision is to have a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. Together, with them, we will be powering science that saves lives. We will be doing a range of different activities to raise money and awareness. We will have pub quizzes, pop up shops, bake sales, smoothie bars and various levels of sporting challenges. We will also run heart health education sessions in conjunction with BHF and of course have our UK wide company volunteering day.
Working with Cancer Research UK
Girls on Trek – Narinder Uppal, Lauren MacDonald, Victoria Haynes and Zoe Spalding completed their four-day Mont Blanc trek raising nearly £2,000. Shine Night Walks – Sue Johnson and family, Tom Ewen and Alex Hamilton Baily did the Marathon Walk across 26.2 miles. London to Paris cycle - Lucy Harding, Jen Duke, Henry McCreery, Harry Ford Over cycled 515km (320 miles) and climbed 4500m (15,000 feet) to raise over £9,000. Jurassic Coast Ultra Challenge – 14 intrepid walkers: Romy Biggs, Amy Aiello, Victoria Moss, Miriam McGilvray, Caroline Sands, Rhi Woodrow, Rachel Poppleton, Jes Ladva, Harry Ford, Emma Parkin, Gail Parkin, Ellie Kimber, Andriana Stampoli, Ardiana Hashani, Laura Garnier raised over £8,000 walking 100km, 58km, 25km distances. It involved the walking the World Heritage Dorset coastline, starting in Corfe Castle, heading down to Swanage, through Lulworth Cove, past Durdle Door to Weymouth, past Portland Bill, Chesil Beach, and West Bay’s cliffs, before finishing in Bridport. Leeds office charity walk - Each year for the past four years the Leeds office have walked parts of the Leeds to Liverpool Canal, between 9 and 16 miles each year, using the opportunity to donate money or raise sponsorship for our charity partner. We raise c.£200 per year. This year in April we walked from Barndoldswick to Skipton in North Yorkshire. Next year will head eastwards from Leeds to explore the Yorkshire Wolds. Promises Auction - this is one which gets the juices flowing as competitive bids were received for such items as Harlequins tickets; dinner at the House of Lords; lunch at London Soho House; Bagpipe services; Organ master class; Gym buddy session and dinner at Mosimann’s. We raised nearly £4,000.
CSR Committee
Our comprehensive CSR agenda is run by our CSR committee who are involved in shaping and organising our CSR programme. The committee is supported by a large team of enthusiastic volunteers. The committee is led by Petrina Jackson, Head of Research.
Petrina Jackson Head of CSR
Andriana Sampoli Volunteering Lead
Ellie Kimber Sports and Fundraising Lead
Hannah Wade Regional Offices Lead
Amy Aiello Comms Lead
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