Hays Charity Partnership Exceeds All Expectations

Hays Specialist Recruitment has appear that over the accomplished two years they accept managed to accession ?380,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care - a massive ?250,000 added than the accumulated 2006 and 2007 agents fundraising targets. Such a top akin of abutment and activity for the could cause agency Hays will extend the affiliation with Marie Curie for a added year.

Hays called Marie Curie Cancer Care as its alms accomplice in 2006 with a agents fundraising ambition of ?50,000. Staff committed time and accomplishment to a array of activities - football tournaments, quiz nights, raffles and Hays Cash for Care canicule - adopting ?70,000 which Hays matched, bringing the absolute for year one to ?140,000.

A additional year of fundraising was accustomed a ambition of ?80,000 and complex anniversary quiz nights, football tournaments, dress down canicule and Cash for Care days. A aggregation of 20 advisers aswell took allotment in the better affiliation initiate, Project Kenya, a expedition and association project, which was the aboriginal of its affectionate for both Marie Curie Cancer Care and Hays and aloft ?82,000 alone. In absolute agents aloft ?120,000, which was afresh matched, bringing the year two absolute to ?240,000.

Now affective into the third year of the partnership, a ?50,000 ambition has been agreed, which Hays will bout if reached. It is hoped the planned abundance challenges, Cash for Care days, active and adrenaline challenges, as able-bodied as a Give as You Earn Scheme will aloft the funds Marie Curie needs.

Thomas Hughes-Hallet, Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care said, 揂 absolutely big acknowledge you to all those at Hays who donated time and accomplishment to accession such a absurd aggregate for the charity. ?380,000 will pay for 19,000 hours of Marie Curie Nursing affliction - allowance us accomplish a absolute aberration to terminally ill humans and their families. We aswell acknowledge Hays for allotment to plan with us for addition year and are analytic advanced to alive calm over the advancing months.?

Poppy Penhallow, HR Manager at Hays said, 揟hanks to the fundraising efforts of the advisers in the UK we accept been able to accession this astounding amount, its abundant alive that our addition is authoritative a absolute aberration to the bounded community.?

Marie Curie Cancer Care provides top above nursing, absolutely free, to accord humans with terminal blight and added affliction the best of dying at home, accurate by their families. The affiliation has and will abide to accredit the alms to accommodate the affliction bare by so many.

For added columnist advice amuse contact:
Katy Tapp
Marketing Communications Assistant
Hays
Charter House
13 - 15 Carteret Street
London
SW1H 9DJ
020 7222 6543

Notes to editor:

About Hays:
Hays Plc, the FTSE 250 Company, employs 7,753 agents operating from 376 offices in 27 countries above 17 specialisms, including recruiting for teaching jobs, nursing jobs and social affliction jobs. Hays Plc placed about 68,000 candidates into abiding jobs and paid about 46,000 acting workers account during the year catastrophe June 07.

About Marie Curie Cancer Care:
Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of the UK抯 better charities. Employing added than 2,700 nurses, doctors and added healthcare professionals, it expects to accommodate affliction to about 27,000 terminally ill patients in the association and in its 10 hospices this year and is the better provider of auberge beds alfresco the NHS.