The TCM Group first made the decision to form an ongoing charity partnership relationship with two charities, in celebration of our 20th anniversary year, during 2021. After a successful first year, raising over £3,500, we are delighted to continue this partnership throughout 2022. The British Heart Foundation is one of our chosen causes, and we are also supporting Alzheimer's Society.

The British Heart Foundation carry out lifesaving research and support for heart patients. Heart and circulatory diseases remain the world's biggest killers, but the recent pandemic cut the charity's future research ambitions in half. As their progress was slowed, millions of lives are being put at further risk.

Research carried out by the BHF has developed machines that can restart hearts, the ability to fix arteries in tiny babies and the power to donate a heart from one individual to another. Over 7 million people in the UK live with heart conditions, and devastatingly, 1 in 4 die from heart and circulatory disease. We hope that our efforts as an organisation, alongside the support of our customers, connections and friends, will ensure that crucial ongoing research can continue, in the light of the financial uncertainty that recent times have delivered.

As an organisation, we plan to raise funds through a number of means:

- We will be making a £20 donation, split across our two chosen causes, for each Mediation Service we deliver, and for every place booked on our National Certificate in Workplace Mediation open-access training courses.

- We run regular webinars and conferences to promote our products and services. For each of these free events, we will be suggesting that attendees make a suggested donation of £5 to their choice of our two partner charities.

- We plan to run fundraising activities, challenges and events to offer further opportunities for our wider team to get involved and raise additional funds throughout the year.