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Spring/Summer 2018
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How Brewin volunteers are transforming
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Welcome
The value to society and the economic through our partnerships with Enabling
benefit derived from volunteering cannot be Enterprise and Winning Scotland. We
underestimated. are also delighted to now be working with
An Cosán in Dublin which works to empower
At the heart of each commitment is a desire
through education.
to improve the lives, opportunities and
wellbeing of others. The economic value of We are making good progress with Payroll
volunteering is estimated to be well above Giving and look like receiving another Gold
Ruth Murphy
Head of Charities £20bn a year. More than a third (37%) of Award for the level of staff participation. We
and CR Committee the population volunteer at least once a year don’t have far to go now to move up to the
Member
and 22% monthly. Perhaps surprisingly, only Platinum Award and continue to make it even
6% of volunteering is the result of employer- easier for staff to sign up for this tax-effective
supported initiatives, such as the volunteering way of donating. We are also moving in the
day we offer at Brewin Dolphin. right direction with green initiatives,
introducing reusable coffee cups and working
We should be proud of what is achieved by
to remove plastic cups across the offices.
our collective efforts, not just volunteering but
fundraising and all the other ways we support All our CR Ambassadors gathered recently for
our communities and causes. It was very the first time to share ideas and make plans
heartening to showcase some of our work at for how best to pursue our CR activities in the
the Brewin Dolphin People Awards, which has future. There is one in every office, so do ask
a category that saw us nominating our peers them if you have any questions or have good
for their contribution to the community. ideas for collegiate activity in your community.
Centrally, we continue to support our CR
strategy of creating access to opportunity
Contents
Partnership News 3 Positive
Group News 4 Impact
Other Group Donations and Awards 6
Schools News 9
Facilities / IT update 10
Volunteering 11
Payroll Giving 15
Small Grants 16
Fundraising Matching 17 Check out our news and information on
the Positive Impact page of BDi
Key fundraising dates 22
Rosie Richardson-Aitken on 0203 201 3724
Ways to get involved 22 foundation@brewin.co.uk
Photo cover: Volunteering at Oxford City Farm, photo by Gavin Crillly, pressphotographergloucestershire.co.uk
Partnership News
Enabling Enterprise
We continue to work with Enabling Enterprise and have helped “A goal-oriented
this year to develop the ‘Lend A Hand’ project. The project interactive session,
involves introducing school pupils to the idea of budgeting and extremely productive for
finding solutions to financial problems. As part of the project,
the learners and highly
we invite pupils to visit our offices. Each term the London office
hosts three school visits and Birmingham, Manchester and
rewarding for
Leeds have also invited pupils into their offices in support of the the volunteers”
project. To find out more about hosting a group of pupils, or Campbell, London
being a volunteer, please contact Rosie Richardson-Aitken on Volunteer
0203 201 3724.
Winning Scotland Foundation An Cosán
Congratulations to the Glasgow team, which recently The Dublin office has chosen to support local charity An Cosán
undertook a daily 5km run, or 30 minutes of exercise, for 50 this year. An Cosán empowers through education by providing
consecutive days. Nearly the whole office took part, raising people of all ages with pathways to learning, leadership and
£3,600 for the Scottish offices’ charity partner, Winning enterprise. The charity also offers a variety of programmes
Scotland Foundation (WSF). If you would like more information in early years education, care, parenting, community, further
on ways you can get involved in the work WSF does, please and higher education. The Dublin team will support the charity
contact Rosie Richardson-Aitken on 0203 201 3724. through fundraising and volunteering.
ENABLING ENTERPRISE
St John’s Primary, Ealing and Brewin Dolphin - March 2018
30 year five students, aged 9-10, from St John’s Primary Jo Reed, Assistant Head at St John’s, highlights how the
in Ealing, London, visited Brewin Dolphin’s Smithfield office visit to Brewin Dolphin supports the work back at school.
on 23 March. Their teacher reflected on the day:
She said: “On the trip the students were able to solve
“The students have had a brilliant time thanks to the fantastic real-life problems and practice skills in a professional
volunteers and fast-paced, engaging content. Some students environment. There was a noticeable improvement in their
would have never previously stood up and spoke in front of a confidence – particularly when working in small groups and
room full of people, but today they all did.” presenting back to their classmates and professionals from
Brewin Dolphin.
A Brewin Dolphin volunteer highlighted that the students
developed their skills, including their teamwork: “Some of those who visited Brewin Dolphin have said
they’d like to work for the company one day; sharing their
“The skill development was so impressive – every team experience of visiting Brewin Dolphin with other students at
worked together really well. As one of the students put it, school also helps to share the experience more widely.
‘we gave each member of our team a skill that they used “Because the Enabling Enterprise projects back at school
to help the rest of the team with throughout the day.’” are consistent with the activities on the employer visits they
Back at school, the students continue to focus on all carry on developing the essential skills they will need for
developing essential skills including: leadership, teamwork, future success.”
listening, presenting, problem-solving, creativity, staying
positive and aiming high.
Partnerships News | 3
Group News Christmas Jumper Day Once again over the festive period we pulled out all the stops and donned our favourite Christmas jumpers and outfits. Thank you so much to all the offices that took part and helped raise £2,000 for Age UK and Save the Children. Other offices also took part, raising money for local charities of their choice. The Edinburgh office donated £330 raised on its Christmas Jumper Day to Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids Mission Christmas Appeal. The charity helps children across Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife who are disadvantaged through poverty, sickness or disability. 4 | Group News
Christmas Gift Donations
Teams up and down the country London
chose to celebrate the festive season The London office collected gifts for
with generous donations to those for local charity Single Homeless Project
whom Christmas might not feel like (SHP) to provide those who were
a celebration. spending Christmas in a homeless
hostel with gifts to make their festive
Edinburgh season a little happier. In support of
The Edinburgh office requires a special this collection the Finance team held an
mention. The team donated wrapped amazing cake sale and raffle that raised
gifts to the Children 1st appeal. £1,135 for SHP. The charity said it was
overwhelmed by the generosity that
It also donated all the proceeds from everyone in the office showed.
a Christmas party fundraising to the
Edinburgh Food Bank, handing over
a grand total of £1,400. Then, the
Edinburgh BPS Customer Service Team
decided that instead of buying each
other Secret Santa gifts they would each
spend £10 each buying food, toiletries
and presents which they donated to
Cyrenians, a local homeless charity.
Exeter, Plymouth and Truro
The South West group held its annual
Christmas hamper raffle and raised
£390 for its charity of the year ELF
(Exeter Leukaemia Fund). This is the
sixth year offices in the group have held
a raffle, but the first time all three offices
have joined forces. They had a terrific
selection of contributions and eventually
had four hampers to offer as prizes.
The draw took place when everyone
was together on 21 December for
their annual staff lunch, and the lucky
winners (right) were very pleased with
their prizes.
Group News | 5
Other Group Donations
and Awards
Cardiff Cure Leukaemia
On 2 February the Cardiff office took part in the Wear Red for Well done to Zara Rikalans of the Birmingham Office who won
Velindre and Wales event raising £250 for the Cardiff-based Cure Leukaemia’s Volunteer of the Year award for the work
Velindre Cancer Centre. she did to support the Three Tours Challenge in 2017. The
Challenge raised over £780,000 last year, going a long way
towards meeting a £1 million fundraising target to expand the
Centre for Clinical Haematology in Birmingham.
12 NEWS THURSDAY 5 APRIL 2018
Deal surge flows
to record quarter
OLIVER GILL highest first quarter value on record as
pressure from investors and the search
@ojngill for innovation continues to push corpo-
THE “extraordinary surge” of dealmak- rates towards M&A,” said Jonathan
ing which picked up at the end of 2017 Klonowski of Mergermarket.
has continued into the first three The Mergermarket report read:
months of 2018, figures released today “Global private equity activity remains
reveal. remarkably high, with many investors
Activity hit its highest value since pursuing larger targets as the mid-mar-
2001 with pressure from shareholders ket becomes saturated. In the first quar-
and the search for innovation driving ter there were 699 buyouts worth a total
corporates towards M&A, according to $113.6bn, compared to the $89.5bn (782
data from Mergermarket. deals) in the first quarter of 2017, repre-
In the first quarter, $890.7bn senting the strongest start to the year Ice skating drama I, Tonya
(£632.8bn) was recorded across 3,774 since 2007 ($212.7bn). It represents the
deals. This was 18 per cent higher than
the previous year. There have been 14
deals worth $10bn or more so far this
fourth consecutive quarter in which
buyout activity has reached $100bn.”
Last month, most investment bankers Entertain
family an
year – topped by the $67.9bn tie-up and lawyers expected to see mergers
between Cigna and Express Scripts. and acquisitions (M&A) and equity
Belfast
Goldman Sachs led the financial advi- capital markets continue to boom in
sor rankings with 76 deals worth 2018.
$268.4bn. A huge 77 per cent of respondents to a
The US registered a sizeable increase Thomson Reuters survey said they JAMES BOOTH
in M&A during the first three months expected to see M&A activity increase
of the year. Six of the largest 10 global over this year, while 21 per cent predict- @Jamesdbooth1
deals targeted the country and account- ed it would escalate by more than a CANADIAN TV and film
ed for a 44.2 per cent share of global quarter. Meanwhile 60 per cent of cor- Entertainment One, ma
The team from the Belfast office invited children and activity by value.
Telecommunications and media was
one of the key sectors in the first three
porations put “funding acquisitions” in
their top three priorities for using cash
reserves in 2018.
children’s favourite Pep
announced a strong yea
update to the stock mar
grandchildren of clients to a charity screening of the Star Wars
months of 2018, registering over “Many companies are in good health, The entertainment c
$129.9bn across 707 deals. The proposed with expectations of steadily rising rev- which is listed on the F
takeover of Danish telecoms firm TDC enues, capital expenditures and said that in the year to
by a consortium was the largest employment,” said Matthew Toole, had delivered a strong
film, ‘The Last Jedi’ at the Strand Arts Centre. They raised a
City Giving Day
announced deal in the sector and the director of Deals Intelligence at performance, driven by
only one to break the $10bn barrier. Thomson Reuters. and television divisions
“The extraordinary surge in dealmak- “Rather than sit on cash, the widely It said yesterday that
total of £450 which was donated to Alzheimer’s Society.
ing seen at the end of 2017 has carried shared expectation is for companies to is continuing to perform
through into 2018 as global M&A hit its deploy capital on strategic acquisitions.” mature markets like th
Australia but is also ma
inroads in China with m
We are really pleased to again @LMAPPEAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
UK stoc
#CGD #GoRed
Newcastle be able to support the London #peoplematter
City Giving Day, to remind the Supporting City Giving Day
In Newcastle the Business Support team raised £600 for world of the great corporate employees to support charities and
at any p
organisations local to them through LUCY WHITE
Sport Relief by organising a bake sale, a dress-down day and responsibility work that goes
volunteering, fundraising matching and our
small grants programme. At a corporate @LucyGJWhite
Why are you supporting CGD? level, we work with organisations that create UK EQUITIES are more u
It’s a great opportunity to bring focus to the access to opportunity such as Enabling compared to their US an
a sweepstake to guess how many steps Paralympic sprinter on in so many companies in
charitable work that we do all year round. We Enterprise and Career Ready. counterparts than at an
remind our employees about all the ways the last several years, ac
they can get involved in supporting How will you celebrate CGD? new data.
organisations in their local communities and We will hold a tea party and a corporate Looking at the ratio o
Jonnie Peacock took in one day. the City of London. Donations have a genuinely positive impact.
Which charities do you support?
responsibility awareness event to remind
employees of the many ways they can
support our communities and introduce
company’s current shar
12-month predicted ear
aggregate, UK stocks ar
this year will go towards
We have offices across the UK so encourage them to some of our volunteering partners. the biggest discount to
equities for more than
and to US equities since
CHARITY IN ACTION
Edinburgh supporting the Lord Mayor’s Volunteers help FareShare, a charity which aims
Deadline d
to fight the capital’s hunger and food waste issues.
chosen charities, Place2Be, expected r The quality of food that
The Business Support, IT and Premises and Facilities teams hold OnSide Youth Zones and
FareShare distributes is
fantastic; this would ALEXANDRA ROGERS
normally go to waste but
instead it goes to @city_amrogers
a monthly prize draw that all employees are invited to join at a Samaritans. This year, we will charitable organisations
across London.
Payal Nair, Communications
NEARLY 1,000 busine
those expected rep
gender pay gap figures
cost of £5 per entry. The winning employee gets 90% of the pot be celebrating City Giving Day
Team, Brewin Dolphin last night’s midnight de
As City A.M. went to
JOIN US AND REGISTER NOW AT businesses had reporte
WWW.THELORDMAYORSAPPEAL.ORG/CGD significantly more tha
and gets to nominate the charity they would like the remaining on 25 September 2018. It is the government estima
10% to be donated too. Once the money raised for a charity is hoped the city of Birmingham
over £100, the team applies to the Brewin Dolphin Foundation will also get involved and organise a similar event.
to match funding. In the last year the team has supported the
following charities: Amazon Vouchers
Alzheimer’s Scotland £222.50 Sep 17 The Positive Impact team was given £1,000 in Amazon
British Heart Foundation £282.50 Sep 17 vouchers, donated by a team of heads of office that had
STV Children’s Appeal £219.50 Dec 17 previously won them in a competition. So far, the vouchers
have helped purchase a laptop for homeless charity Divine
Make a Wish Foundation £347.45 Apr 18
Rescue and an Amazon Echo that was a top prize in a
Scottish SPCA £221.00 Apr 18 FareShare fundraising raffle. The vouchers were also used to
purchase Christmas decorations for the SHP Christmas Party
which the Events team organised and to purchase a raffle prize
for Lingen Davies Cancer Fund in Shrewsbury. Thank you to
the heads of office for their generous donation.
6 | Other Group Donations and Awards
Suit Drive Charity Football Tournament in Bristol
In December the Edinburgh office organised a suit drive and One of the warmest days of spring (19 April) coincided
was able to deliver a huge box of donations to its local branch with Bristol’s first Brewin Dolphin charity five-a-side football
of Smart Works. In March, in conjunction with the office spring tournament which raised £1,600. The tournament was held
clean, the London and Reigate offices also donated a big box in aid of local charity, the Southmead Project, which offers
of clothing to both Smart Works and Suited and Booted. therapeutic and practical support to vulnerable adults. The
chief executive of the Southmead Project, Mike Peirce OBE,
spoke of how the money raised would be sufficient to fund a
counselling volunteer for a whole year.
The event attracted eight professional firms from the local area
to compete for the title in a competitive and entertaining night
of football. The night concluded with a nail-biting final, with
accountants, Saffery Champness, emerging victorious against
Fidelity following a sudden death penalty shoot-out. Well done
to all those who made the tournament such a success.
Brewin Dolphin / Duncan Lawrie
Donation
The BD team that came from Duncan Lawrie found itself
with £56,000 in a dormant client account that needed to be
donated to charity. The money was from an account that was
set up in the 1950s with the intention of using it for education
purposes in Malawi. With that in mind, the money was divided
between several charities that work both in Africa and in the
UK. Here are a couple of the responses we received from the
African based charities.
From African Vision Malawi:
“We are very grateful to you for thinking of us and your donation Newcastle’s champions
will certainly assist enormously with our educational aims.
The @BrewinNewcastle office team of ‘CHUF Champions’ met
“We have just built an incredible training village, like a rural with Michelle from @CHUFOfficial to plan a Dragon’s Den style
technical college. We believe this is the first of its type perhaps presentation of fundraising ideas. CHUF, or Children’s Heart
in Africa and should go a long way to train people out of Unit Fund, aims to make life better for children and young
poverty. We are very much about giving a hand-up, rather than people who are born with or develop heart conditions by
handouts. It goes live this year and is called Sam’s Village. supporting them and their families.
“Many local people have little or no education; therefore, we
provide basic adult numeracy and literacy training. Included
in the training courses will be business development to equip
trainees with the confidence to start their own business.”
From Malawi Education Link:
“I’m leaving for Malawi on Thursday and hope, rains permitting,
to be able to initiate the building of two more classroom blocks
with this incredibly generous donation. That will mean some
370 primary school children will be able to learn under shelter”.
Other Group Donations and Awards | 7
Other Group Donations
and Awards continued
Exeter, Plymouth and Truro CR Ambassador Workshop
Exeter, Plymouth and Truro offices hosted a lasagne lunch in We held our first ever CR Ambassador Workshop in the
aid of their joint charity of the year, HeartSWell South West. London office on 15 May. A group of 24 ambassadors from
HeartSWell South West is a small local charity supporting across the office network came to London to meet each other
patients of the cardiac wards at Plymouth Hospital and their and exchange ideas on best practice for CR. The day was
families, by providing accommodation near the hospital. facilitated by CAF which originally helped us to set up the BD
Foundation so were well placed to help us.
Alongside providing accommodation, HeartSWell South West
places lifesaving defibrillators in the community around Devon Your CR Ambassador is your first point of contact if you would
and Cornwall. These machines cost in the region of £1,500 like to get involved in fundraising, payroll giving or volunteering.
each. The South West offices are aiming to provide funding
for at least one of these vital machines alongside supporting For an up to date list of CR Ambassadors, please see the
the other amazing work this small charity does. Positive Impact page on BDi.
The lasagne lunch raised £260, which is a fantastic achievement,
and everyone who took part went home very full and happy.
• Neil Dickinson – going above and beyond to make the
world a better place
• Jeffrey Ball – enormous impact on the community
around the Cramlington Rockets
Brewin Dolphin People Awards • Elaine Smith – dedication and commitment to
In January we held the first ever Brewin Dolphin People Girls’ Brigade
Awards dinner in Edinburgh Castle. The award recognised • Johnny McGlynn – contribution to fundraising
employees nominated by their colleagues for demonstrating • Alissa Foale – selfless work for London Legacy charity
excellence in their work or contribution to corporate
responsibility. It was great to see so many nominations for CR • Amanda Kanesarajah – behind the scenes work to
and congratulations must go to he winners (listed right) who encourage her department to make a difference
won awards in the CR category. Don’t forget to nominate • Janet Barrett – amazing fundraising for Cancer
your community focussed colleagues in this year’s awards! Research UK by selling knitted chicks (not in photo).
8 | Other Group Donations and Awards
Well North Painting
Following our sponsorship of the Well North and Onna
Bike women’s ride in Girlington last year, we were delighted
that Well North’s artist Matt Worden came into the London
office to present us with one of the pictures he painted to
commemorate the ride. He was joined by Lord Mawson who
is Executive Chairman of Well North, a project in the north of
England that aims to connect local people, health experts,
public services, businesses, voluntary groups and community
organisations which are all eager to make a difference. Other
pieces of Matt Worden’s work are currently begin displayed in
the Leeds office.
Thank you letters
School News
Blackpool Sixth Form college
On Thursday 7 December we were one of more than
70 London companies that took part in Career Ready’s
Capital Experience event. We welcomed students from
Blackpool Sixth Form College into the Smithfield office
for an introduction to what we do as a business and to
engage in a networking and communications session.
Career Ready is a UK-wide charity linking employers with
schools and colleges to open up the world of work to
young people.
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Other Group Donations and Awards | 9
Facilities / IT
Workspace and Printers
We are continuing to work with the IT and Facilities team to improve on our waste, printing and
energy consumption.
Waste recycling Mugs
Recycling facilities are now fully operational in London, A reminder that Brewin Dolphin mugs are available on the
Newcastle and Edinburgh and we have also added acid Mosaic portal should you wish to introduce them into your
battery recycling at those sites. If you would like to find office to cut down on disposable cups going into the rubbish.
out if you can recycle more effectively in your office, please
contact Chris Eldridge in the Newcastle office. Reusable Coffee Cups
Fruitful Office We are delighted to announce that Brewin Dolphin
branded reusable coffee cups are also now
Thank you to all the offices who currently order fruit from Fruitful available for all employees. They come in two
Office. We now have 10 offices receiving fresh fruit, and staff sizes: 35cl (insulated) and 25cl. These cups are an
in those offices consume 1,820 pieces of fruit each week. excellent way to cut down on the amount of non-
Since we started working with Fruitful Office, collectively we recyclable coffee cups that we use. You can take them home
have facilitated the planting of 2,790 trees in Malawi. If you are with you and pick up your early morning coffee on your way
interested in getting involved, please contact Chris Eldridge in into the office. As an added incentive, many coffee shops
Newcastle. give you money off for using your own cup. These cups are
for employees use only and will be available on the Mosaic
portal. They can be ordered by your office stationery contact.
These have proved very popular in the London office.
10 | Facilities / ITVolunteering Volunteering is a win-win for all those
involved. It offers a valuable opportunity
for you to enjoy the benefits that come
with taking time out of your busy working
Volunteering has got off to a good life to make a difference to others in your
start this year, with plenty of teams community. It is also hugely important to our
Corporate Responsibility strategy, enabling
heading out and getting involved in us to express our culture and values in the
communities where we and our clients live.
their local communities, sometimes
Well done to those teams who have already
in rather trying weather. However, got involved. Any teams that want to know
more, please contact Rosie.
we want to encourage more of
Here is a snap shot of the volunteering that
you to get involved and hope the has taken place in the last few months.
following stories will inspire you to
take part.
London Birmingham
Our Events team chose to do something a little different Led by head of office Adam Wilkins, a team of four from the
for its volunteering day, supporting the charity SHP’s Birmingham office spent its volunteering day planting trees to
#MakeItChristmas campaign by organising a Christmas party. support Forest of the Hearts charity. It was part of a wider group
The party for 50 vulnerable adults who live in SHP’s hostels took of 90 volunteers that planted 1,000 trees in a day to create
place at lunchtime in a community centre in Lewisham. The Honey Bee Wood in Stratford upon Avon, a scheme to help
team arranged everything from food to decorations to music. save the bees.
http://forestofhearts.com/blog/honeybeewood
The guests enjoyed Mama Joyce’s Caribbean food, karaoke, a
DJ and a dance and chat with our team. Each guest was then
given a goodie bags of luxury toiletries, Christmas decorations
and takeaway food parcels.
Volunteering | 11Volunteering continued
Penrith Edinburgh Leeds
Intrepid Peter Martin, head of the Penrith The Edinburgh office sent out A team of five from the Leeds office
office, spent his volunteering day taking two teams to spend their recent spent its volunteering day decorating
part in a training exercise with the Lake volunteering days at the Edinburgh two patient rooms at a local Wakefield
District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs. Foodbank. All the volunteers found it Hospice. This involved removing
Given his love of both the animals and an incredibly eye-opening and fulfilling wallpaper that had been in place for
the mountains in which they operate, day, as well as a good team bonding over 27 years! At the end they were all
Peter chose to work with the search exercise. The office also donated 110kg very ‘emulsional’.
dogs. He acted as a ‘body’ so that of food to the Foodbank in December
the many teams involved in mountain to support the work it does over the
rescue could practice finding him and very busy Christmas holidays. That is
other ‘casualties’, in what turned out to enough to feed six families, three meals
be challenging and ‘realistic’ weather a day for three days.
conditions. Peter was eventually found
by Matt, an operational member of a
mountain rescue team within the area.
Well done Peter for giving your time to a
really important cause.
Over two days, another five members of
the Leeds office volunteered their time at
Next Step Trust in Halifax. In exchange
for their hard work they were rewarded
with a working supply of tea and cakes –
which were gratefully received.
London
Food charity FareShare benefited from
the help of a team from the London
London office which set out to deliver food
all around central London in time for
Two teams from the 190 Group in hot lunches to be prepared for those
London spent their volunteering day in need. From helping ex-servicemen
at Oasis Hub Waterloo with Waterloo to feeding the homeless and those in
Foodbank, which provides emergency drug rehabilitation centres, it was a
food for people in crisis. The teams spent Newcastle challenging morning of pushing, loading
their time weighing, sorting and packing and unloading crates of food supplies.
food parcels. Shirley Williamson attended the
Altogether Better Health Champions
workshop as her day of volunteering.
Altogether Better Health works with a
network of volunteers who use their
own life experiences to transform health
and well-being in their communities.
Well done Shirley for becoming part of a
great cause on an ongoing basis.
12 | VolunteeringThe afternoon was spent unloading and
Marlborough Manchester
sorting out huge stacks of donated food
from supermarkets, coffee shops and A team from the Marlborough office were A team from the Manchester office went
confectionary stores. The food included blessed with great weather when they to Manchester Dogs’ Home on 9 May
sacks of potatoes, fruit, vegetables, spent their volunteering day gardening for their day of volunteering. The day
sweets, chocolate, cakes, biscuits and at The Prospect Hospice gardens in involved feeding, walking and spending
bread. Although all food donated was well Wroughton. The garden, which is called time with the dogs, one on one, to ensure
within its sell by date, it would otherwise the Bluebell Walk, is designed to be that they all receive equal amounts of
have been thrown into landfill sites. accessible for all patients. The team time and attention. Getting the dogs out
worked hard to remove weeds and old as much as possible is very important as
All the team felt humble and tired at the bulbs to smarten it up. Their hard work the volunteers could not possibly have
end of the day but satisfied that they had meant that the hospice didn’t need to given all the dogs living there a walk.
made a difference to someone’s life. pay for gardening services. Once they They were told that more frequent walks
had completed the gardening, the team make the dogs happier and feeling more
London were taken on a tour of the hospice to like a companion. After some potentially
better understand the invaluable work traumatic experiences, helping the dogs
The marketing team spent its that it does for the community. feel comfortable around people will
volunteering day transforming a garden increase the chance they will be rescued.
at one of SHP’s hostels in north The work they are doing at the home is
London. SHP is a London-wide charity extraordinary. Seeing the different stages
working to prevent homelessness and of the rescue process, from when the
help vulnerable and socially excluded dogs arrive to when they are able to leave
people to transform their lives. Despite is very emotional and inspiring.
the miserable weather, the team of 10,
supported by a team from SHP, replaced
a garden shed, rebuilt a firepit, cleared
and weeded the beds, cut back the
undergrowth and removed a van full of
garden and general waste from the site.
Tara Carty from SHP was thrilled with
the work. She is also delighted that
more members of the team, who were
unable to attend the first session, will be
coming to finish the work that couldn’t be
completed due to the rain.
Newcastle
A team from the Newcastle office spent their volunteering day with the North East
“The marketing team did a great job. branch of FareShare. All those who took part enjoyed the opportunity to work as a
In the rain, but with great spirits, they team, and it gave them a chance to see how FareShare receives, sorts and distributes
achieved so much. The back garden excess food across the region. The team went out in vans to hostels, charities,
looks amazing with a new shed. Now we breakfast and after school clubs. Two of the team even took out-of-date fruit to a
can clearly see the space we have we can biomass plant, a better alternative to landfill and hiring a skip.
decide where we will build some raised
beds for the next big project, ready for
growing fruit and veg.”
From Tara Carty, SHP
Volunteering | 13Volunteering continued
London Newcastle
On 17 May, members of the dealing A team of eight volunteers provided Linskill Centre in North Shields. They
team volunteered at Providence Row, assistance to Hedley’s Able 2 Day were split into two teams of two.
a charity that tackles the root causes of Opportunities centre based at Forest Hall,
homelessness to help people get off and Newcastle, in a number of different areas. The first team helped out by painting
stay off the streets. The task for the day They were split into groups to tackle tasks the foyer. They painted the whole room
was to assist in the charity’s roof garden within Arts and crafts, Horticulture and the within the day (getting covered in white
project. Providence Row produces home Sensory room. paint in the process), tucked into some
grown food worth over £2,000 per year; lunch with the staff and service users
food which it uses in its kitchens to In the Art and Craft room, the team painted and then tidied the foyer up afterwards.
not only feed the homeless but also to the large back wall of the room as well as The staff at the centre were extremely
teach them how to cook. The team were the shelves below to brighten up the look of happy with the job and said that it had
required to prepare raised beds, plant, the room which they have said now looks brightened the room up.
water and carry out general maintenance fantastic! The team in horticulture prepared
to ensure the general health of this the raised plant beds, including removing The second team helped out by cleaning
wonderful rooftop urban allotment. the weeds, ready for the summer plants as out the sensory garden. They spent the
well as tidying the fire corridor. The rest of day tidying up and weeding the garden
the team cleaned and tidied the sensory and met some cute ducklings!
room, which they said is now beautifully
clean and fresh smelling. We are all already “Overall, we all really enjoyed a great
looking forward to going back! day. The Percy Hedley team were all
very welcoming throughout and grateful
A team of four volunteers helped out for our help.”
at Percy Hedley’s Able 2 Centre at the
Jersey
The Brewin Dolphin Jersey team
spent their employee volunteering
day gardening for local charity, Jersey
Hospice Care. The team worked together
to weed and distribute wood chipping
throughout the large beautiful gardens.
The hospice provides palliative care and
support services for families of patients
and the gardens are designed to be a Oxford and Birmingham
place where patients and their families
can relax and enjoy the amazing views. A team from both the Oxford and
Birmingham offices were joined by
some clients at the newly set up Oxford
City Farm. Seeing the difference they
made, in the space of only one day,
was incredible and really made their
efforts feel worthwhile. They provided
an excellent example of how we can
make a positive impact.
14 | VolunteeringPayroll Giving - Gold Award
We are making great progress. With 19% of
staff now participating in payroll giving, we are
looking forward to receiving the Payroll Giving
Gold Award for the third year running and are
edging ever closer to reaching Platinum. Please
see the Positive Impact on BDi for the quick link
to sign up.
What’s not to LOVE about payroll giving? Benefits include:
• Tax efficient giving, directly from your salary
• Matching means that Brewin Dolphin will give up to £240 per year to your chosen charity or
into a personal CAF account
• More than 300 employees already signed up
• In the last year we have given £150,000 to charity through payroll giving
• BD will match your donation up to £20 per month
YOUR DONATION
FROM GROSS SALARY BD MATCHING CHARITY RECEIVES COST TO YOU
Per month Standard rate
tax payer
£10 + £10 = £20 £8
Non-standard
tax payers
will receive
£20 + £20 = £40 £16 additional
tax relief
£30 + £20 = £50 £24
Payroll Giving | 15Small Grants
We are really pleased to have had such a positive uptake in
small grant applications in the last few months.
We would like to remind everyone about the benefits of being able to support small
local charities in which you are personally involved. If you can demonstrate a personal
involvement with a local organisation that makes a difference to your community, then
why not nominate it for a small grant. Are you a volunteer, trustee, or fundraiser for a
local charity or do you benefit from the work that a charity does? If you are not sure if
your choice of charity qualifies, check out the Small Grant FAQs on BDi or give Rosie
Bridge Mentoring Plus Scheme
a call to chat it through. Below is a list of recent small grants donated.
Charity Office
Friends of Sussex Hospices London
Friends of Anchor Aberdeen
Winston's Wish London
Kilamacolm Scout Group
Russell Anderson Development School Aberdeen
Burley Scouts and Guides Leeds
The Bridge Mentoring Plus Scheme Cardiff
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust London
Read Easy Truro
Central Berkshire Education Business Partnership
Community Christmas Nottingham
PIE Project Newcastle
Bury St Edmunds Women’s Aid
Exeter Leukaemia Fund Exeter The Ipswich office visited the Women’s
Aid centre in Bury St Edmunds to
Bury St Edmonds Women's Refuge Ipswich
present a small grant of £500 to the
Survivors in Transition Ipswich charity. The centre offers safety, security,
accommodation, friendship and support
Dundee Therapy Garden Edinburgh
to women and children who have had to
Clachan Youth Club Glasgow flee their home due to domestic abuse,
City of Newcastle District Scout Council Newcastle
whether emotional, physical, mental
or financial. Alongside providing safe
Hospice of the Good Shepherd Manchester accommodation, the refuge staff also run
Tweeddale Rideability Group SCIO Edinburgh a range of support groups to offer further
care for women. They also provide
Community Housing Aid Exeter advice and guidance regarding the
GRACE London more practical difficulties of life following
domestic abuse, such as benefits and
BOSP (Brighter Opportunities Through Supported Play) London long-term accommodation for victims
Home Start Butser Leeds and their children.
The Not Forgotten Association London
Make 2nds Count Edinburgh
16 | Small GrantsFundraising Matching
Newcastle Newcastle London
Well done to Shirley Williamson who Laura McMullen and family took part A team from the 190 Group took part
volunteered for a charity Christmas in a 48-hour static bike ride in aid of in the Vertical Rush challenge to raise
gift wrapping service in Eldon Square, St Cuthbert’s Hospice in Durham. The money for Shelter. Taking in 932 steps,
Newcastle and helped raised £300 for team sat on a pair on spinning bikes or 42 floors, two teams of five joined
The Children’s Foundation. in their local Tesco Extra and, with lots over 1,000 runners, all raising money for
of support from friends and family, homeless charity Shelter. Their fundraising
Cardiff managed to raise over £4,000. total came to a brilliant £3,900.
Over a few weeks at the end of 2017,
Dan Jacob organised the Great Brewin
Bake Off in the Cardiff office. Each
week the office held a round of bakes
and colleagues put a donation in the
pot of their favourite confection. The
star bakers from each week then
advanced to the final. The final contest
was combined with a raffle, with the
office raising £300 for Children in Need.
Congratulations to Janice Williams
whose Gin and Tonic cake was the
ultimate Bake Off winner. London
Richard Kelly further supported the Daniel Kalhor took part in the London
fundraising for Children in Need in the Landmarks Half Marathon in aid of
Cardiff office by organising a breakfast Edinburgh North London Cares (NLC). Completing
event, cooking a breakfast for anyone the event in an excellent 1hr 51
who wanted it. He raised £200 to add Congratulations to CR Ambassador minutes, Dan raised £650 for NLC
to the office’s total. Pamela Hornal, who helped raised which works to combat isolation and
a whopping £8,540 for Glasgow encourage a community network in
Children’s Hospital Charity by north London.
encouraging and supporting her
husband and friend to take part in a sky
dive. Pamela’s daughter was recently
diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic
Exeter leukaemia and spends a significant
amount of time in Glasgow Children’s
At Christmas, Vicky Eastwood and Hospital. A fantastic place of care, the
Caroline Barnes raised £170 in hospital requires significant assistance
donations from colleagues in the from the charity.
Exeter, Plymouth and Truro offices
for the Exeter Foodbank. They used
the money to buy items from the
Foodbank’s priority list and deliver it to
one of the charity’s donation points. It is
something the team do every year just
before Christmas, but this is the first
time they’ve raised more than £100.
Well done all!
Fundraising Matching | 17Fundraising Matching continued
Bristol Edinburgh BBC Strictly stars Oti Mabuse and
dance partner Giovanni Pernice also hit
Another Brewin runner, Jon Godfrey, On 24 January, James Carmalt joined the floor. Collectively the dancers helped
completed the Paris marathon in April a team of fellow ‘Haggis Hikers’ and raise more than £100,000 for the cause
and raised £2,430 for SANDS, the walked 50km, carrying a haggis from - the most ever raised since the dance
stillbirth and neonatal death charity. the Scottish Border to Kingston Park event was launched in 2010.
in Newcastle. The hike was in aid of
the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, The dancers wowed the 600-strong
the charity set up by ex-Scotland sell-out audience, which was hosted by
international rugby player Doddie Weir Carol Smillie and David Farrell.
to fund research and raise awareness of
Motor Neurone Disease. (The ‘5’ refers
to Doddie’s rugby shirt number.) Along
the arduous route, James and his fellow
hikers were joined by friends and family
who helped them raise £12,000. When
they reached their destination, the team
Edinburgh presented their haggis to Doddie Weir
himself to celebrate Burns Night.
Well done to Johnny McGlynn’s son
Jake (12) who played the bagpipes London
outside the Murrayfield Stadium at the
Scotland v Australia rugby international. Alex Allen took part in Movember to
The money he raised will be added raise money to tackle some of the
to an office collection for Edinburgh biggest health issues faced by men: London
Foodbank. prostate cancer, testicular cancer and
poor mental health. Well done Alex, and Philip Kenyon raised a magnificent
his impressive tash, for raising £405. £1,800 for St Mungo’s homeless
charity with a collection taken after
the London office’s carol concert at St
Andrew church in Holborn. The money
was given specifically to The Lodge at
St Ursula’s to replace two sofas in the
resident’s communal lounge.
The manager of St Ursula’s Lodge said:
“This is absolutely wonderful, fantastic,
Nottingham brilliant. I am over the moon, thank you
so much. I really can’t believe it was
A team of tuck shop organisers in the possible to get so much from the carol
Nottingham office spent 10 months service… a thousand thanks”.
selling goodies to raise £400 for
Rainbows Hospice for Children and Glasgow Edinburgh
Young People.
Huge congratulations to Alan Riddell Michael Kent, Jonny Baird, Jessica
who raised £16,500 for The Prince & Randal and Caroline Whytock organised
Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow a charity ball in November for charity
by taking part in its annual ‘(A Little Less) Fetlor raising £2,000. Fetlor Youth
Strictly Come Dancing’ fundraiser. As Club, Scotland’s oldest youth club, has
one of the charity’s ambassadors, Alan provided a safe haven for the young
took some persuasion to take part, people of Edinburgh for almost a century.
but once signed up his commitment
to training and taking himself out of his
comfort zone was immense.
18 | Fundraising MatchingNottingham
Janet Barrett has had another wonderful
year of fundraising with her knitted chicks.
This Easter, through her network of sellers,
Janet collected over £1,300 for Cancer
Research UK which was matched by an
additional £200 from the BD Foundation.
Chick fever reached an all-time high
in the London office, where over £700
was collected from the sale of chicks.
Colleagues were still clamouring for them
long after the supply had run out.
Newcastle London
Edinburgh
Well done to James Duncan who raised A team of seven fearless adrenaline Well done to Adele Frances of the
£1,480 for Cancer Research UK by junkies from the Newcastle office marketing team in London who took
taking part in the Walk All Over Cancer raised £1,000 for the Newcastle United part in the gruelling London Marathon –
event. This involved walking a minimum Foundation when they took part in the hottest on record. This was Adele’s
of 10,000 steps every day in the month a zip slide across St James’ Park. first marathon and, despite the heat and
of March, raising money for a cause very The Foundation harnesses the local lack of water, she finished the course
close to James’ heart. passion for football and uses it to help and raised over £1,300 for child cancer
disadvantaged children, young people charity CLIC Sargent in memory of her
and families across the region. father. Part of her fundraising involved
a cake sale in the London office which
Edinburgh raised an impressive £275.
Aaron Inglis ran the London marathon
and raised £300 for Make A Wish
Foundation which grants wishes to
children with life threatening medical
conditions.
Nottingham
Tania Lambert from the Nottingham
office also took part in the London
marathon and finished in an impressive
4 hours 11 minutes. She raised £3,000
for Cardiac Risk in the Young, which
raises awareness of Sudden Adult Death
Syndrome. Well done!
Fundraising Matching | 19Fundraising Matching continued
Newcastle London Newcastle
The Newcastle office has been holding Sarah Waters raised over £400 Thomas Smith from the Newcastle
regular charity fund raising events – cake completing the Moonwalk Marathon office took part in a ‘Row the Tyne’
sales and raffles - on the last Friday for Breast Cancer on Saturday 12 May. event. Teams of six took it in turns to
of the month, with funds raised for a It took her 11hrs walking the 26 miles row 118km (the equivalent to the length
different charity each time. In March it around London through the night. of the Tyne) over a 10-hour period
raised £600 for Sport Relief, a sum that on rowing machines. The event was
was matched by the BD Foundation. held to raise money for The Bobby
Then, in April, it raised over £800, Robson Foundation which supports
including Foundation matching, for cancer research and treatment at the
Cystic Fibrosis Trust, thanks in part to Northern Centre for Cancer Care directly
a very popular tombola which led to benefiting cancer patients from across
queues for tickets when it opened. the North East and Cumbria.
Edinburgh
Congratulations to Marion Barlow and
her daughter Anna who raised over
£200 by selling cakes at Edinburgh Sick
Kids Hospital and then afterwards at the
Edinburgh office.
Marlborough
Stephen Carpenter recently took part in the ‘London Revolution’ event that sees
cyclists ride 300km around London over two days, with a night of camping in
the middle at Windsor Racecourse. The first day of riding was cold and wet and
Stephen spent a lot of time helping others with their punctures. By the second day,
the weather was better, and he finished a fantastic 200th out of 1,500. Well done
Stephen for raising £850 for Cancer Research UK.
20 | Fundraising MatchingSuffolk Breast Cancer Edinburgh Newcastle
Now – Walk on the
Riverside The Brewin Portfolio Service team Emma Swanson took the brave decision
recently donated £50 worth of Easter to shave her head on 12 May before she
The ladies from the Ipswich office Eggs to The Yard, Edinburgh. The Yard undergoes treatment. In the process,
completed a 12-mile walk through the provides help and support to disabled she raised over £1,500 for The Brain
Suffolk countryside in Dedham to raise children and their families in Scotland. Tumour Charity. Emma is so grateful to
money for Breast Cancer Now. So far, Team member Paul Lojo is pictured all those who have supported her.
they have raised £240 with a further below with representatives from the Yard. Well done!
£100 matched by Brewin Dolphin. The
walk is in its eleventh year. The Suffolk
Breast Cancer Now Group has raised
over £1m for the charity through local
walks, runs, cycle-rides and auctions.
London
Once again, Rupert Tyler opened his garden to show off 3,000 tulips as part of
the National Garden Scheme (NGS). The Sunday and Thursday evening openings
were blessed with perfect viewing weather and he raised over £1,000 for the NGS.
The scheme donates money raised to a range of charities. The Brewin Dolphin
Foundation added a further £200 in fundraising matching.
London
Hollie Bryant ran the London marathon to
raise money for Phabkids. Hollie, who ran
with a friend whose twin sister uses the
services of Phabkids, raised over £2,000.
Her donation will help the charity continue
the work it does to support young people
with disabilities and complex needs.
Fundraising Matching | 21Key fundraising dates
Date Event
17 June 2018 British Heart Foundation London to Brighton Bike Ride
29 July 2018 Prudential RideLondon
21 September 2018 Jeans for Genes Day
25 September 2018 City Giving Day (London)
28 September 2018 Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
19 October 2018 Breast Cancer Now Wear it Pink
November 2018 Movember
28 November 2018 #givingtuesday
15 December 2018 Christmas Jumper Day
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