charity of the year

Nestlé UK and Ireland employees have raised £350,000 for Alzheimer’s Society, the company's Charity of the Year 2011, beating its original target of £250,000.

Help a Capital Child and Meningitis Research Foundation have been voted as Deutsche Bank's Charities of the Year for 2012. The Bank's UK-based employees chose from six shortlisted charities.

Global investment bank Nomura has selected children's charity Rainbow Trust as its charity of the year, in a partnership that will run for two years.

Healthcare company Bupa is looking for a new charity with which to partner in the Bupa Great Run Series for 2012.

Legal, financial and property specialist Pagan Osborne's Edinburgh office has donated a Will Aid Month to the company's charity of the year, Royal Blind.

Santander is looking for a national charity to become its Charity of the Year partner for 2012, and aims to raise £500,000 to fund a specific project.

95-106 Capital FM is looking for a charity partner to benefit from its networked fundraising activities.

Independent experts in foil and hologram security, Security Foiling Ltd, has chosen Mercy Ships as its charity of choice for this year.

Maxol Oil and the Simon Communities in Ireland have announced details of a new partnership which recognises the Simon Community as the official Maxol Charity Partner for 2011.