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Milestones: Firm gives backing to cycle ride for Jane's appeal
Staff from PricewaterhouseCoopers are joining in the Jane's Appeal End to End Challenge this week – a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, in memory of Jane Tomlinson, who died of cancer last year.
Mrs Tomlinson's husband, Mike, and daughter, Rebecca, will set off on July 11 to raise money for Jane's Appeal.
The pair will cycle an average of 60 miles a day during their three-week ride, travelling a route which will take them through Yorkshire and London.
PricewaterhouseCoopers are sponsoring the event and will also support the team with a baton relay with riders joining from offices along the route.
Mark Webster, community affairs partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Leeds will be among those joining one of the Yorkshire legs.
The Tomlinson family hope the Jane's Appeal End To End Challenge will help the charity reach the 2m mark by the end of this year.
Staff from property consultants Colliers CRE have put the finishing touches to a community project – with help from primary schoolchildren.
The entire team of 40 Colliers CRE staff in Leeds constructed two ecologically sustainable buildings for Chapel Allerton Primary School in Leeds and embarked on a major fund-raising initiative. More than 10,000 was raised in just eight hours.
Using only sustainable materials provided by Lotus Construction – with no brick, wood or metal – the teams from Colliers CRE completed the outside structure of the two eco-playhouses within one day.
Four hundred people from Yorkshire's business community celebrated the hard work and dedication of entrepreneurs.
The Biz Awards, set up by the Business Enterprise Agency and held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, awarded prizes to four Yorkshire companies.
Doncaster Re-Furnish won both the Business of the Year and Enterprise through Innovation categories. The Enterprise in the Community award went to St George's Crypt Create in Leeds, the Fastest Growing Business was The Glow Company in Doncaster, and Best New-Start went to Force 10 Recruitment in Doncaster.
Guiseley insurance brokers JM Glendinning (JMG) has given orphans in western Kenya the gift of technology by delivering a laptop to The Great Mercy Orphanage, in Kitale.
Tim Hutchinson, finance director of JMG, saw his 18-year-old daughter, Fran, fly to the troubled area of Kitale and deliver the donated laptop as well as art and crafts and sports equipment. Miss Hutchinson worked at the orphanage for four weeks. She encouraged sporting activities and games, alongside introducing them to the concept of the personal computer.
A tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers has been awarded an OBE for his contribution to public service in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
John Whiting, who was born and raised in Hull, works in the firm's London office.
A Yorkshire textile business has won the top award at its annual industry oscars. In a ceremony in London for the UK commercial interiors sector, Mirfield's contract textile specialist Camira Fabrics was named Company of the Year.
The award recognises Camira's double-digit growth in turnover and profitability over the last two years, as well as its progress in environmental product development, introducing new fabrics made from recycled and renewable raw materials.
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