charity and community

Linda Walsh, Sales Development Manager aims to raise £3,000 for Christies Hospital

Christies Hospital wish to develop a new Chemotherapy Unit which requires £1.2m funding. Linda has completed in a number of events over the past few years for Christies last year with Altrincham Kersal RFC and raised a total of £2550 last year.

This year sees Lindas' most challenging event to date. The team aims to raise a total of £20,000 through a series of three cycling challenges:

Manchester to Liverpool : 56 miles
The Transpenine Trail: 80 miles
Manchester Ride: 100 miles

Lindas' is aiming to raise £3,000 herself to go towards the overall team target.

"I am determined this year to reach my goal of £3000 as at the start of the year I made a promise to my mother-in-law that I would again raise money for Christie's Hospital as her husband had died there 4 years previously.  She was herself taken into Christie's before Christmas and again she reminded me how grateful she was that I was going to be raising money for the Hospital this year.  She felt that I had provided some help to both her and her husband's comfort during their last days, unfortunately she passed away on the 5th February this year only 2 months after her initial diagnosis.

Cancer is now one of those sure thing's in life that unfortunately every-one knows some-one who has been directly or indirectly touched by it, please please give generously" says Linda.

If you wish to sponsor Linda you can do so at the Just Giving website at http://www.justgiving.com/akrfc07

Rullion Computer Personnel entered the 2007 regional five a side tournament organised by Recruiter Magazine. The tournament was held at Manchester City Youth Academy and a total of 16 teams battled it out to become North West champions. After some hard fought matches Rullion Computer Personnel were crowned champions of the North West. Former England and Everton play Trevor Steven presented the trophy and a cheque for £500 which Rullion donated to Christies.

Every year thousands of corporate gifts are provided to suppliers, customers and contractors. Many of these gifts lie in office drawers, unused and unwanted. This year Rullion Computer Personnel has decided to take the lead and instead of purchasing numerous small gifts we have instead paid for a bore hole to be installed in Uganda on behalf of our customers.

 

World Vision states “this gift brings clean, life-giving water to a village in Uganda for the first time ever - to help make water-borne diseases a thing of the past. The benefits are profound: women and girls will no longer have to walk miles to gather water, leaving more time and energy for work and school. Crops and cattle will benefit from a better water supply. Result: a community transformed.”

 

Jon Hitchenor, Rullion Computer Personnel Managing Director comments “In today’s society it is essential that the west understands its’ social and environmental responsibilities. As an organisation that is committed to helping people and ensuring environmental improvements throughout the world we are proud to be supporting this scheme. I am sure that our customers will be fully supportive in this commitment that we have made.”

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