This year Gleeds is celebrating 130 years in business. To mark the occasion, we’re aiming to fundraise £130,000 for charities across the world in one week. We’ve called our initiative the Gleeds Global Challenge.

Between 21^st – 25^th September each of our 56 global offices will spend a day completing a challenge they’ve set themselves, raising money for a charity they’ve chosen.

The race is on…

On Friday 25^th September, some of the staff in our London office will be walking from the O2 Arena in Greenwich, along the South Bank, back to our offices in the West End in the quickest possible time. The 12 mile trek will be walked during the working day, and will be a particular challenge for myself, having had a minor operation earlier in the year and not being able to exercise because of this.

Fighting cancer

All funds raised will be donated to Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds in memory of our colleague, Alan Fuller, who had recently passed away having suffered from Burkitts Lymphoma (a form of cancer).

Alan received outstanding care from Oxford Radcliffe during his time there, and supporting us in this challenge, would mean, the charitable funds received by the hospital, would be able to provide additional specialist equipment, medical care and support for patients, of which may not be available on the NHS. 

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