A HOUSEBUILDING company is working to raise £10,000 for Daisy’s Dream.
Persimmon Homes Thames Valley first chose Daisy’s Dream as its Charity of the Year in 2020 and raised £8,000. In 2021, this was upped to £8,600.
Now Kelly Bence, PA to the regional MD, chairman and divisional director, has challenged colleagues to come up with fresh ideas as to how they can hit the £10,000 mark.
Daisy’s Dream was originally founded to meet the needs of bereaved children. But in more recent years has expanded its service to encompass families where there has been a serious illness diagnosis.
Mr Bence said: “Last year’s fundraising total was an amazing £8,606.08 through a series of furniture sales, mufti days, staff raffles, Christmas jumper day and a fantastic sky dive by two of our daredevil colleagues Karen and Meg.
“Thank you so much to everyone for taking part and for the amazing donations. We have decided to keep Daisy’s Dream for a final year – and wouldn’t it be wonderful to raise £10,000.”
Gill Stevens, director of Daisy’s Dream, said that she is delighted that the housebuilder is supporting them again.
She added: “Their wonderful fundraising activities have made an immediate and positive impact to the lives of local children and families we support and will continue to do so in the coming year.
“We appreciate that businesses and their employees are currently facing many challenges of their own, so to take the time and trouble to choose Daisy’s Dream is especially poignant and we are really looking forward to seeing all the brilliant fundraising activities the Persimmon team take on in 2022.”
Ian Beal, managing director at Persimmon Homes Thames Valley, the team are now looking for ideas on staff bucket lists to make the final year of sponsorship the best ever.
