Sarah, Alison & Carolyn
The McOnie Agency – celebrating 21 years communicating safety
Volunteering Fun!
As part of our 21st birthday celebrations each member of the agency can take time off work to volunteer with a charity of their choice. In July, Sarah, Alison and Carolyn volunteered to help at “The Biggest Band” an event in aid of Save the Children. The idea was to get as many school children singing together in one location to break the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest band. On 8th July, 6,000 children descended on Wembley Arena and sung their hearts out to “It’s alright”. We were amongst the Guinness Book of Records’ adjudicators making sure that the children were singing so that the record could be claimed. The record was broken and the song, that can be downloaded with all proceeds going to Save the Children, got to number 21 in the UK charts! It was great fun although extremely noisy and we all felt we should have taken hearing protectors!
Our fund raising is going well and in July we received a whopping donation from Arco for £2,100 towards our funds for Mesothelioma UK. This donation has squashed our original target and so we have now decided to double the amount we are hoping to raise to £4,200! So far we have raised £2,247 and so we need your donations please. Don’t forget, each member of the agency is cycling 21 miles each month and so far Team McOnie has completed 636 of miles out of a total of 1200. Please keep sponsoring us – your money means our little legs go faster! Visit our just giving page (www.justgiving.com/TheMcOnieAgency)
And we met up with the ladies from Mesothelioma UK (www.mesothelioma.uk.com) in July too to discuss our proposed charity auction that is going to take place at the BSIF Networking Event in September so those of you attending will be able to bid on some extremely exciting prizes. They were delighted to hear all we are doing for them and are looking forward to finding out more about the products designed to protect people from developing Mesothelioma.
There’s lots more to come so keep an eye out for our next email and don’t forget to sponsor us for such a worthy charity. A big thank you to all who have sponsored us so far.
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