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THE staff and management of Hali- fax Insurance in Shannon have spent the last few months working that bit harder. It’s nothing to do with trying to increase profits or even combating the downturn in the economy, instead the group have been working their fingers to the bone to raise money for three very deserving charities.
And on the evidence of this work, they all deserve great big raises. Last Thursday the insurance company presented cheques totalling €34,000 to three charities.
The Irish Cancer Society were given €17,000 to continue their good work while Limerick’s Milford Care Centre received €8,500 and depres-
sion charity Aware receive €8,500.
The company’s charity committee introduced the challenge to Halifax Insurance Ireland Ltd and organised, promoted and encouraged colleagues to get involved in the events through- out the year. Each and every member of Halifax in Shannon was involved in some way or another in the fund- raising push.
The committee came up with a wide variety of events and activi- ties ranging from the sublime to the slightly ridiculous. Senior managers served tea and coffee to everyone at their desks, people washed cars, and the IT team sold their own desserts and produced a world class recipe book.
Other colleagues faced the bitter
cold of the Atlantic on St Stephen’s day while more than 20 others were sponsored to lose weight on the beach body challenge. They even held an Xtra-Factor night with their very own version of Louis, Simon and Sharon.
“This money will go along way to- wards helping us to create and deliver innovative programmes for the care of people with cancer, to fund can- cer research and to provide education and health promotion programmes independent of government policies,” said Kevin Delaney of Irish Cancer Society who collected a cheque for a AUC OF
“We are so proud of our employees for all that they have achieved,” said Caroline Holmes, Senior Manager
HR and Chair of the Charity Com- mittee.
“We have set all of our departments a challenge for 2008 so we can see how high we can raise the bar.”
Halifax Insurance Ireland Ltd was voted one of the top 50 companies to work for in 2007 and were awarded overall winner for Training and De- velopment by the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD) in February 2008.