Andrews & Partners staff rasie over £70,000 for charities supported by ACT
From marathon running to chest waxing, car boot sales to ‘Yucky Dips’, the staff of Andrews estate agents and other businesses have raised well in excess of £70,000 for charities Advantage Africa and Robin Hood Ministries.
 Launched by Chief Executive, Michael Robson in 2006 as a celebration of the companies 60th year, the Project60 challenge invited all staff to try and raise a combined £60,000 for charity in just twelve months.
“To the best of our knowledge we are the only estate agency group to have charitable heritage and the humanitarian spirit of our founder Cecil Jackson Cole runs through everything we do. Through our three charitable trusts (ACT, Christian Book Promotion Trust and The Christian Initiative Trust), our successes can help others bring about the changes they need to sustain a better life for the future. And Project60 was a way of celebrating this further sharing in the ideas of our founder some sixty years after the company first began trading“, said Chief Executive Michael Robson
The Project60 fund has been split between two charities Advantage Africa and Robin Hood Ministries who work with impoverished communities in Kenya and Romania respectively. Robin Hood Ministries has received £35,000 for playground equipment, a soup kitchen, medical supplies and legal aid project. And at the end of June some of the company’s top fund raisers headed out to Romania to see first hand how their money was now benefiting hundreds of people living in the city of Iasi.
“We helped to build a playground whilst we were there and he kids loved it. Without it there was very little joy in their lives – it really was lifeline and you could see it in their faces” said Felicity Parker, Branch Manager of Andrews Clifton (Bristol) office.
Advantage Africa has already received £25,000 from Projects60 which has been spent on a school for disabled children, a feeding programme for children orphaned by AIDS and a school kitchen. A second group of Andrews hardest working fund raisers will again be visiting some of the company funded initiatives later this month. During their visit together the group will decide how they would like to see the remaining £10K allocated.
Following the completion of Project60, staff were asked how they felt about the charitable scheme and where you'd like to see it go in the future*. 72% of you got involved with Project60 - more than half (60%) in your own free time. A quarter of you (28%) achieved a personal goal as a result of the initiative, three quarters (76%) said you felt Project60 had a positive impact on branch morale. One in four (28%) said you felt Andrews had attracted more business as a result of the initiative.
At the recent staff conference, Michael Robson once again thanked everyone for their involvement with Project60 concluding, “This is a truly befitting end to a magnificent year and we really couldn’t have done it without you. I’m touched by your response. Raising an additional £10,000 may of left some people overwhelmed – I however, knowing all of you, am not the least surprised you had this in you!”
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