| | KPMG has hit its £1
million 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 | |
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| | the Hospices as its UK
staff 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 250 of its
people have been
volunteering their time | |
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| | 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. To date,
across 28 hospice | |
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| | 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
£500,000 for Help the | |
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| | 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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