THE GOAL:

To race around the world - a massive 24,901 miles through walking, running, swimming or cycling to raise money for our two chosen charities: The British Heart Foundation and Mind.

Our colleagues will be having walking lunches, spending their weekends doing park run and hitting the gym after work all with the aim of collectively travelling around the world all within 30 days.

WHY?

Both charities are close to BRS’ heart due to sadly losing 3 of our colleagues. Our aim is to give something back and raise money in the memory of these individuals all while encouraging our team to adopt a more active lifestyle and promote wellbeing in the workplace.

Our mission is to raise money and awareness for our chosen charities to support them in the work that they do.

The loss of Richard Pennell, Chris Butterworth and Mike Jones was devastating to all those that knew them including family, friends and colleagues across Bunzl Retail Supplies and was felt particularly hard within the Procurement and Operation teams.

Mike was a huge music fan, Richard was an avid sports enthusiast and Chris a keen cyclist, so our challenge is centred around sport, health and wellbeing and so is particularly fitting to them. The challenge is for the Bunzl Retail Supplies team to travel 24,901 miles through a wide range of activities – including running, walking, cycling, swimming to name but a few - in memory of Richard, Chris and Mike and to raise money for our partner charities.