| KPMG hits £1m milestone for Help the Hospices |
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| | KPMG has hit its £1m
fundraising target for
its staff charity, Help
the Hospices, the hospice
movement's national
charity. It has taken
just 22 months to reach
this landmark, with
numerous innovative
activities taking place
across the firm's 22 UK
offices to raise money
for Help the Hospices.
Initially a one-year
programme, last year KPMG
staff voted for the first
time to keep Help the
Hospices as its UK staff | |
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| | 250 of its people have
been volunteering their
time to Help the Hospices
and local hospices; from
hands on activities
including gardening and
painting to longer term
pieces of pro bono work,
and new initiatives such
as its 'green audit'
programme specifically
designed to address
energy use in each
hospice and to find ways
to help reduce the
hospices' carbon
footprint and reduce
their energy consumption. | |
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| | To date, across 28
hospice audits, annual
energy savings of a
projected £100,000 and
500 tonnes of carbon have
been identified.
Over the last year,
many KPMG employees have
donated a slice of their
hard-earned cash to the
cause and held a variety
of fundraising events
across the country to
raise money for hospice
care.
During the first year
of the partnership KPMG
in the UK raised over | |
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| | £500,000 for Help the
Hospices.
At the beginning of
the year KPMG announced
an innovative agreement
with American Express
under which a proportion
of the value of every
business transaction on
the corporate American
Express card will go to
Help the Hospices.
KPMG's Staff Charity
programme with Help the
Hospices ends on 30
September 2008. | |
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| | charity for another year.
Each of KPMG's offices
have been linked with a
local hospice with funds
raised locally by staff
going to that hospice.
Forming part of KPMG's
successful volunteering
programme - where last
year 35% of staff
contributed more than
38,000 hours to local
communities - more than | |
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