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Charity £200k FOR MIND

Our very own team of Colchester
marksmen joined BSS as part of their
national challenge to raise £200K for
MIND the mental health Charity on an
afternoon of Clay Pidgeon shooting.
Our Managing Surveyor and top
shooter Glen McCormick took 1st
place with Damian Murray our
180 MILE CHARITY CHALLENGE Mechanical Estimator placing a
solid 4th.
Andy Vickers, Operations Director, The event raised £1,000 for Peter’s
Lorne Stewart Facilities Northern has chosen charity, Bloodwise – a Blood
once again teamed up with ex (old) Cancer Research Charity which funds
rugby players for the fifth year world class research to change the
running to raise money for charity. lives of people living with leukaemia,
lymphoma, myeloma and other types
This harrowing 180 mile bike ride of blood diseases. Andy Vickers
from London Stratford (Olympic commented: ‘Peter was a man to
Park) to Lincoln Cathedral took pace remember for both his physical
on June 22nd in memory of Peter strength on pitch and his ability
Wallace, a previous team member, to support his family and friends.
who sadly lost his long battle with We are honoured to have taken
cancer in December 2017. part in this challenge to support
Bloodwise in Peter’s memory.’

LEIGH OFFICE

RAISE £451.57
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FOR MACMILLAN

Every year Leigh services and Leigh of pennies in the jar’, ‘guess the Once all the cakes and sandwiches “This was a superb effort
Engineering come together for a number of sweets in a jar’ and ‘guess were eaten and the donations and by all concerned and well
coffee morning in aid of Macmillan the length of the sausage roll’. All the monetary entries counted, the
the largest British Cancer Support above were £1 per go with all the office had raised a total of £451.57 done to all the organisers
charity. This year, the event was held money going into the final account which is a fantastic amount and far and the ‘cake and sandwich
on Friday 28th September 2018. and the winner of each winning the exceeded the £169.00 made the donators’ who made all the
sweets, a bottle of wine (not opened previous year. Both David Brickliffe, goodies in their own time
As well as staff making and donating at work) or a box of chocolates. Regional Director Leigh Engineer-
cakes there was a ‘guess the amount ing and Andy Vickers, Operations at home”.
Director Services commented