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Barclays Group Legal and Compliance Operations - 3 Peaks Challenge

Barclays Group Legal & Compliance Operations is raising money for The Sick Children's Trust
“Barclays ORIP's fundraising”

on 13 July 2011

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The Sick Children’s Trust is the charity that gives families with a seriously ill child in hospital a comfortable place to stay and a friendly ear to listen in one of our ten ‘Homes from Home’. By providing families with somewhere to stay near their child they have one less thing to worry about.

Story

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Barclays Sans;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Barclays Sans&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thank you for visiting our Just Giving Three Peaks Challenge for the Sick Children&rsquo;s Trust&nbsp;page.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Barclays Sans&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The&nbsp;SCT's mission is to provide high quality &lsquo;Home from Home&rsquo; accommodation for families whose&nbsp;children are receiving hospital treatment for serious illness. Today, the charity has seven &lsquo;Home from Homes&rsquo; at major paediatric hospitals around the country, each providing clean comfortable accommodation for families with seriously ill children. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Barclays Sans;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Ev</span>ery &pound;25 raised (or saved on their behalf) pays for a family to stay in one of their houses for a night, and </span></span><strong><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">&pound;9,000 would fund one room for a year</span></strong><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Barclays Sans&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">, which would allow approximately 36 families to stay near their sick child.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> <br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Barclays Sans;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">For every &pound; raised, Barclays will match that so your money will go even further than you think - just imagine what your donation could mean to one of the families. <br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Barclays Sans;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">UK</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate. <br /><br /></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Barclays Sans&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Barclays Sans;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This year 9 volunteers from Barclays Legal and Compliance Operations team are raising money for the </span><a href="http://www.sickchildrenstrust.org/"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Sick Children Trust</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> by attempting to climb the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales within a set period of time over a weekend (the aim is 24hrs!).&nbsp; The mountains in question are: Ben Nevis (Scotland), Scafell Pike (England) and Snowdon (Wales). </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Barclays Sans;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Barclays Sans&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">So please dig deep and donate as much as you can.</span></span></span></span></p> <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p> </p>

Donation summary

Total
£3,802.50
+ £510.38 Gift Aid
Online
£3,802.50
Offline
£0.00

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