Community
We take our responsibility to our communities seriously. Our people are actively involved in servicing those communities every day; they are an integral part of our business.
Europa supports charitable causes through active fundraising, sponsorship or donations. At a local account or site level the focus of their support is towards issues that are important to their local community and, more often than not, our people.
During 2009 we have supported the international charity WaterAid, an international charity with a mission to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene. We have raised over £8,000 this year by supporting their annual charity ball, donating money through Christmas cards, incentivizing our people to tell us what they thought of us in our annual employee survey by donating £1 for every one completed and through various outstanding individual fundraising activities.
Most notably, group finance director Russell ‘marathon man’ Muldoon completed a grueling 151 mile Marathon des Sables across the Sahara Desert in Morocco successfully raising over £5,000 for WaterAid. Read more about Russell’s arduous trip on page 15 of issue 1 of ‘insideout’ – the Europa magazine
Thank you
To all our Europa people who have given their time and commitment to raise money for some worthwhile causes. Here are just a few.
The Europa team at Quayside, Newcastle, for helping to raise nearly £900 for a meningitis charity event organised by the Princes Trust to promote awareness about the illness (www.givetillyahand.co.uk)
Marcia Butler, security officer at Southside Shopping Centre in Wandsworth who raised nearly £2,000 in the Race for Life in aid of breast cancer.
Bill Squires, managing director, Corporate and Retail, for raising £1,000 for ‘Andreas Gift, a Yorkshire charity which funds brain tumour research and support when he cycled the Big Bike Ride from Wetherby to Scarborough (www.andreasgift.org.uk)
Alex Richens, communications manager, raised £1,246 for Martin House Children’s Hospice near Leeds for taking part in the infamous Knaresborough Bed Race (www.martinhouse.org.uk)
The Europa team at The Potteries shopping centre for supporting events during Breast Cancer Awareness Month
The Europa team at The Victoria Shopping Centre in Nottingham for their work with Action for blind people this year to give training to over 30 of our staff in the techniques needed to guide blind or partially sighted members of the public within the Centre
The Europa team complete their charity coast to coast bike ride in 2010, raising over £3000 for Martin House
Get pedaling Keith, a member of our security team at Eldon Square who will be raising money for Help the Heroes by doing a charity bike ride in September 2010 from London to Belgium