charity of the year

The Rezidor Hotel Group is to support children's charity Variety in a two-year partnership. Over 2,500 staff from the group's hotels in the UK will help raise funds for the charity to

David Lloyd Leisure has chosen Together for Short Lives as the group’s official national charity partner for 2013.

One of London's newest visitor attractions has chosen Booktrust as its first charity of the year. The View from The Shard will be supporting the charity's Children's Reading Fund.

Lloyds Banking Group has chosen Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer Scotland as its Charity of the Year Partnership for 2013 and 2014. The charities were selected in a staff vote.

Ethical beauty retailer The Body Shop is partnering with Teenage Cancer Trust and aims to raise £250,000 for the charity.

The Met Office has chosen WaterAid as its corporate charity to support over the next three years.

VisionDirect.co.uk, the online suppliers of replacement contact lenses, is to raise funds for sight-loss and eye disease charity Fight for Sight.

Staff and customers at out-of-town fashion store chain Outfit have raised £250,000 for Alzheimer's Society, the company's charity of the year since July 2011.