Highland Hospice, the charity that helps people living with an advancing, life shortening illness in the Highlands to live the best possible life, as well as supporting their families and carers, has benefited from a £2,210 boost from BEAR Scotland.
A five-strong team from leading road maintenance firm, BEAR Scotland helped raise £1,210 for the charity by taking part in the recent fundraising event which involved abseiling 100ft off the iconic Kessock Bridge in Inverness. BEAR Scotland topped this up with an additional £1,000 on behalf of all staff.
The Highland Hospice is the fourth charity this year to benefit from a new charity initiative launched by BEAR Scotland which focuses on local and regional causes across the country. Staff from all areas of BEAR Scotland were invited to nominate local charities which were most important to them.
BEAR Scotland Senior Bridges Engineer Forbes Fraser nominated the charity and was the captain for the BEAR Scotland team that took part in the abseil challenge.
Forbes said: “It was great to get a team involved in the Highland Hospice abseil fundraising event recently, as it is a local charity that we are passionate about. We exceeded our fundraising target which is a fantastic achievement by everyone involved.
“The £1,000 donation made by BEAR Scotland takes the total donated by everyone associated with BEAR to over £2,200. The money raised will be going to a very good cause, so we are really proud to get involved.”
Teams at BEAR Scotland worked closely with Highland Hospice to arrange the event on Kessock Bridge due to it being a structure that BEAR maintains and manages on behalf of Transport Scotland.
The Highland Hospice fundraising event aimed to raised £50,000 – so far over £150,000 has been raised.
Highland Hospice Corporate Fundraiser Karen Duff said, “Thank you so much to BEAR Scotland for this generous contribution to our fundraising and to the five brave staff members who abseiled.
“This was our first fundraising event in 19 months, we had upwards of 430 people participating and incredibly raised over £150,000 for patient care and family support across the Highlands.
“The atmosphere was incredible with people of all ages taking the challenge, travelling from the North of Scotland to the South of England to participate. We had some abseilers who were visually impaired, as well as one of the Hospice’s Wellbeing Group patients making this a truly all-inclusive event.”
Look out for more information about how BEAR Scotland is supporting local and regional charities this year.
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