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Local Insurance Broker Helps Raise Over £5 Million for UK Charities

Local insurance broker Towergate Insurance based in Telford has been part of the team which has raised over £5 million to help a number of UK charities. These include special projects at Cancer Research UK, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, the Hospice movement and the NSPCC, which provides ChildLine. Towergate in Telford is also twinned with Hope House Hospice in Oswestry to provide vital funds for nursing care.

Since being established in 2008 the Towergate Charitable Foundation has raised this huge amount through staff and client donations. This comes at a time when the total charitable donations to UK's charities has still not yet returned to the pre-recession peak of 2007/8, when charities received £11.3 billion in charitable donations when adjusted for inflation.

Along with colleagues from other Towergate UK offices, Towergate Insurance in Telford has worked with clients and colleagues to raise this staggering amount, which has gone towards the special projects including:

Donating more than £586,000 to local hospices as well as £540,000 to the central charity, Help the Hospices, who have provided a range of grants to local hospices around the UK including Hope House Hospice in Oswestry

• Funding the recruitment and training of volunteer counsellors for ChildLine, NSPCC's 24 hour helpline for children. ChildLine confirms that an additional 41000 vulnerable children have been able to speak to a qualified counsellor as a result of the funds raised by Towergate.
• Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital is now able to build an additional two isolation units at their new hospital. They are also carrying out essential research into child Leukaemia and Bone Marrow transplants using the funds donated by Towergate.
• Cancer Research UK is progressing world leading research into ways of preventing tumours from diverting the blood supply, preventing their growth.

Larry Smith, Managing Director of Towergate Insurance in Telford said, "I wish to thank my colleagues and our clients for their outstanding contribution to these great charities. In these tough economic times both our staff and clients have defied the odds by going the extra mile to raise money through a range of local fund raising events".

Esther Rantzen, President of Childline said, "These are tough times for everyone particularly the most vulnerable like children suffering from neglect. The money Towergate Insurance has donated to charities has transformed the lives of thousands of children who had no one else to help and given up hope."

* The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in "UK Giving 2010"