The month of September marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a month in which the CCLG’s (Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group) main aim is to make more people aware of how they can help with the fight against this illness.
On Saturday 24 July, Alice Higham and Zoe Cross from Ramsdens Solicitors’ York office, took to the skies to raise money for York based children’s charity, The Island,
It’s Volunteers’ Week from 1 – 7 June and we’d like to take the opportunity to say thank you to all our staff for the fantastic contribution they make helping local and national charities, from those who are trustees and campaigners to mentors and fundraisers.
This February our Holmfirth office will be taking on the Garden of Eden Tour, a 22-mile trek across Kirklees, to help raise vital funds for Eden Smith.
This week from 17th-23rd January, we are supporting Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.
Christmas is an important time of the year to help others and across our business our staff we have been helping and supporting local, regional and national charities through our #Ramsdens12Days of charity at Christmas that ran from the 1st December to the 12th.
This week we are supporting the 15th International Brain Tumour Awareness Week. The focus is to encourage people to organise their own fundraising activities and donate to local or national brain tumour support charities.
It is National Pro Bono and Trustees week, a week that allows us to recognise and celebrate the great work our team at Ramsdens does to help make a difference to those in need.
On Wednesday 20 October our Ramsdens football team participated in the One In Million 5-a-side football tournament, raising money to support Bradford’s children and young people.
Your ability to have a positive impact on someone’s life does not have to be limited to your lifetime. This year we are supporting ‘remember a charity in your Will’ week to help raise awareness and highlight the importance of leaving a gift to charity in your Will.
As we acknowledge International Day of Charity on 5th September, it is important to raise awareness of the importance of volunteering and philanthropic activities. This day was established to mobilise and sensitise individuals across the globe to humanitarian crises and human suffering – in addition to the efforts of charitable organisations and individuals.
On Thursday 8 July our team of cyclists took on the 100 mile route across our 14 offices, starting at York at 6 am and finishing at the Ramsden Street office in Huddersfield at 7:30 pm, in aid of the Yorkshire Children’s Centre.
This summer our Contentious Probate team will be taking on the one million steps over three months challenge – that’s about 10,000 steps a day.
Loneliness Awareness Week will take place from 14th to 18th June. The awareness week is hosted by Marmalade Trust who are a loneliness charity whose goal is to build greater awareness and acceptance of loneliness. The purpose of the awareness week is to get people talking to help ourselves and others manage the feeling of loneliness.
Child Safety Week is organised by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) to raise awareness of the risks of child accidents and how they can be prevented. This year, the theme is ‘share because you care’, focusing on how sharing safety knowledge saves lives.
This year, we will be supporting Carers Week 2021 which runs from Monday 7th June until Sunday 13th June. Carers Week is an annual campaign designed to raise awareness and recognition of the hard work that carers, both paid and non-paid do all year round.
Throughout this week, we are supporting Action for Brain Injury Week 2021. This year’s focus is ‘a life of lockdown’ and the social isolation faced by brain injury survivors both pre and post-lockdown.
Throughout this week, we are supporting Action for Brain Injury Week 2021. This year’s focus is ‘a life of lockdown’ and the social isolation faced by brain injury survivors both pre and post-lockdown.
This July a team of Ramsdens’ cyclists will once again be taking on the Tour de Ramsdens, which is now in its third year, in aid of Yorkshire Children’s Centre.
Dementia UK are hosting their event ‘Time for a Cuppa’ which will run from 1st – 8th May 2021. The first ‘Time for a Cuppa’ event was held in 2009 and was named a ‘tea party to remember’ and each year Dementia UK host the event in the hope to beat their fundraising target.
Ramsdens Solicitors very own Queen of adrenaline, Julie Ellam from our Litigation team took to the skies…all for charity.
March is Brain Tumour Awareness Month and it is Wear a Hat day on 26th March 2021.
At Ramsdens we are incredibly proud of our gender equality across the firm and especially today we wanted to hear from our wonderful colleagues and talk to them about what advice they’d give their younger selves, with a view to inspiring future generations of female leaders.
Natalie Lang, a Partner in the Ramsdens Solicitors Court of Protection team, on Friday (4 December) took part in the Alzheimer’s Society ‘Elf the Boss Day’.
Throughout October, 32 individuals from across Ramsdens Solicitors’ offices and departments, have been walking, running and cycling in aid of Yorkshire based charity, Physcap.
It is National Pro Bono and Trustees week, a chance to celebrate the breadth and impact of the charity work undertaken by the legal professionals at Ramsdens.
This October Ramsdens Solicitors will be fundraising for Physcap, a charity which is regularly supported by their Abuse and Personal Injury department, by running, waking and cycling 841 miles.
As part of the Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust #SpectacularSeptember, a team of Ramsdens employees are taking part in the virtual Great North Run on Sunday 13 September.
It’s Volunteers’ Week and we wanted to thank our colleagues who have been doing lots to help and support their communities helping family, friends, and colleagues through volunteering and donating to charities during Covid-19.
Ramsdens Personal Injury team hosted their first COVID-19 Zoom Pub Quiz in conjunction with Parklane Plowden Chambers.
Huge thank you to the 80 people that took part in the charity quiz on the 28 May in aid of PhysCap.
