Corporate

Employees at Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank have raised £100,000 in just eight months for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

The banks launched their first Charity Partnership in January this year, each making a £20,000 donation to the cause. All funds raised by employees since the launch have been matched £1 for £1 by the banks.

Almost one hundred employees from the Centrica group, which owns British Gas, Scottish Gas and Onetel, participated in a weekend-long event in Ullswater to raise money for the charity's adoption and fostering, disability, mental health and young carer projects.

Footwear manufacturer HI-TEC has donated pairs of Trekker JX boots from its Outdoor footwear range to the Chernobyl Children Lifeline charity. The HI-TEC Trekker JX will be presented to seventeen children visiting the UK from Chernobyl on a four-week trip organised by the charity.

A global partnership designed to encourage young accountants to volunteer their skills to help tackle poverty has been announced by ACCA, the world's largest professional international accountancy body, and ActionAid.

D&A The Opticians is displaying new 'tent cards' in most of its branches inviting its customers to donate money to Fight for Sight as a thank you for small repairs to glasses. Money raised in this way will go towards a Children's Research Unit at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Black & Lizars, Scotland's largest independent opticians, has pledged to raise £17,500 for Fight for Sight over the next year.

The donation was one of four given to charities to mark Black and Lizars' 175th anniversary year in which they hope to raise £70,000 for charities.

A group of businesses are working together to raise £100,000 for the Northamptonshire-based Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association.

Children's charity ChildLine has been chosen chosen as charity of the year by leading insurer Allianz Cornhill. A clear majority of UK employees voted for ChildLine to be the beneficiary of the company's staff fundraising activities for 2005.