charity of the year

Breast Cancer Care has won a staff vote to become Moto’s Charity of the Year. The partnership is expected to raise up to £50,000 for the charity which supports anybody affected by breast cancer.

Nestlé UK's first charity of the year partnership has raised £430,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care, exceeding the original fundraising target by £180,000.

Supermarket Morrisons has chosen Help the Hospices, the charity that supports hospice care throughout the UK, as its charity of the year. The 10-month partnership aims to raise £1 million.

British Gas has pledged to raise £250,000 for Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK, its newly selected charity of the year.

International bank Santander is inviting national UK charities to apply to become its fourth charity of the year for 2011.

Saffron Building Society is inviting its members and members of the public to vote to decide which local charities will be selected as its charities of the year.

Southern law firm Thomas Eggar LLP is to continue supporting end of life care and support charity St Catherine's Hospice for a second year.

IPC Media has chosen the Mental Health Foundation as its charity of the year for 2010. More than half of voting employees chose the winner from four shortlisted causes.

John Lewis Department Stores has chosen Beating Bowel Cancer as its charity of the year for 2010.