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.
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.
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.
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.
Nazia Nawaz, Head of our Contentious Probate team, has featured on Lawyer Monthly, discussing whether the pandemic and remote working has halted diversity’s and inclusion progress in law?
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.
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.
We are celebrating all the fabulous women at Ramsdens as we support International Women’s Day on March 8 – we’re all supporting this year’s theme, which is #EachForEqual.
March 2020 is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month, and four charities, Target Ovarian Cancer, Ovacome.. ovarian cancer, The Eve Appeal and Ovarian cancer action have come together to raise awareness.
Throughout December our staff have been helping and supporting local, regional and national charities through our #Ramsdens12Days of charity at Christmas campaign.
The monthly networking event, held every third Wednesday morning of the month at The Media Centre in Huddersfield, played host to a fantastic Christmas charity collection at their November event. in aid of the Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust.
At Ramsdens we support staff that hold trustee positions and this week we’re featuring some of our team members as part of Trustee Week (4 -8 November 2019), who hold positions at local charities.
As Pro Bono Week draws to a close, we look at how we as a firm have helped to provide access to justice over the past 12 months to individuals and organisations who would otherwise be unable to access advice and celebrate the achievements of our team.
At Ramsdens we support staff that hold trustee positions and this week we’re featuring some of our team members as part of Trustee Week (4 -8 November 2019), who hold positions at local charities.
At Ramsdens we support staff that hold trustee positions and this week we’re featuring some of our team members as part of Trustee Week (4 -8 November 2019), who hold positions at local charities.
As National Road Victim month draws to a close, Natalie Marrison from our Personal Injury team discusses road safety and the devastating effect of distraction whilst driving.
APIL’s annual Injury Prevention Day takes place this year on 21 August 2019 and this year the focus is on avoiding needless injuries and sharing driving wisdom, or as APIL are calling it, “driving lessons”.
August has been identified as the month in which the most road fatalities occur, Natalie Marrison from our personal injury department discusses the support available for victims of road accidentals.
On Friday 26 July, staff from across all fifteen of the Ramsdens’ offices collected food donations for the nationwide ‘End Holiday Hunger’ campaign.
Dealing with the consequences of brain injury can be extremely difficult. In a recent study by Headway UK, as part of their Brain Drain – Wake up to Fatigue campaign it has been shown that almost 90% of brain injury survivors’ lives are negatively affected by ‘pathological fatigue’, with 80% saying their lives would be improved if people had a better understanding.
Should you have been the victim of brain injury it is likely legal advice on the merits of a claim can follow, in order to avoid unnecessary costs and problems later in life.
Throughout Dementia Action Week our Private Client team have been looking at the different aspects of life with dementia. In our latest blog Veronica Mullins, Partner is focussing on having a voice after you have lost the ability to make your own decisions, if ever this were to happen.
Whether you are caring for someone with a brain injury or providing occasional support for a family member there are some small things we can all learn which will make us better equipped to do so.
Following an accident those involved have significant concerns in relation to their injuries and the consequences of this. It can often be difficult to know what to do to try and mitigate the effects.
One of the many problems facing people with dementia is that most of us don’t understand what living with dementia is like. Unless you have been there, experiencing it, caring for someone living with it, it is difficult to know what it is like, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn more.
