Office Genie Helps raise £63,150 for Institute of Cancer Research

Office Supplies specialist Office Genie helped with the aid of 120 others raise over £63,150 for the Institute of Cancer Research. This years event saw 120 volunteers with the youngest a mere 11months old embark on the Lake District to encounter the challenge labelled 21 years = 21 peaks.

In its second year of fund raising on behalf of the Institute of Cancer Research, the office supplies business community (consisting of manufacturers, resellers and devoted employees) got together to take on this years challenge. On a cold and wet November day 120 people split into 21 groups to walk the likes of "Helvelyn", "Scarfell Pike" and the surrounding areas. The starting point was the Swan Hotel in Grasmere and finishing back at the hotel late in the afternoon.

I am please to say that everyone completed their walks with no injuries and it was back to the hotel that evening that a raffle and auction took place to help raise further funds.

With many people attending supplying auction gifts such as shredders, binding machines, hp printers (you can tell they were stationers) but also some great prizes like a signed Argentina shirt by Maradonna, a signed England rugby shirt, a rock climbing experience.

It was a fantastic day which went long into the night. All i can say is that it was a fantastic acheivement by all to beat last years total of "£62,000" even under the current credit crunch climate. Here's looking forward to next year.