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Bank staff raise thousands for Moortown hospice
Bank staff have been working hard to help people with terminal and life-threatening illnesses at St Gemma's Hospice in Moortown.
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Employees at Yorkshire Bank in the city are celebrating after they raised more than 15,000 for St Gemma's Hospice in just a year.
Activities included Go Yellow, a scheme which encouraged employees to turn their branches yellow ; a sponsored head shave; Christmas carol singing in Leeds city centre and various ticket competitions and tombolas.
Elizabeth Baxter, fund-raising officer at St Gemma's, said: "Their effort is greatly appreciated and will make a huge difference – 15,000 pays for an in-patient bed for 42 days, which includes all patient care, doctors' fees, medication, laundry, electricity and blankets."
St Gemma's is the largest hospice in West Yorkshire. Its annual running costs exceed 7m, more than half of which comes from fundraising.
Including the 15,000 in Leeds, Yorkshire Bank and sister organisation Clydesdale Bank have raised more than 390,000 for hospices across the UK, as part of the Help the Hospices campaign.
Employees raised more than 195,000 and the banks put in a further 195,000.
To mark their first year in the scheme yesterday, every Yorkshire Bank branch received a Help the Hospices first birthday pack including cake recipes and party decorations.
Maxine Trotter, director of fundraising at Help the Hospices, said: "The money raised by the employees, plus their support and enthusiasm, has made a great contribution to the care hospices provide in their communities."
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