Airsweb 2020 Charity of the Year - DKMS - beating blood cancer

Every 20 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with blood cancer such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma.  That's why Airsweb have chosen, for 2020, DKMS as their Company Charity of the Year.

Each year, Airsweb employees have the opportunity to nominate a charity of their choice and the rest of the company chose from the nominations. This approach enables everyone to really get behind the chosen charity and get involved organising fundraising events.

Airsweb have been doing this for several years now and each year the chosen charity has been very thankful for the backing to help raise vital funds.

The Airsweb team have started to plan and plot a year of fundraising activities to support DKMS, including encouraging more registrations, vital in finding a matching donor for every blood cancer patient.

• Totally unhealthy start to the year- tuck shop – it’s all for a good cause and original stock purchased by the Company – so a great way to raise money and keep the energy levels up! To be honest, there are some healthy options as well.
• Grand National Sweepstake – someone has got to win!
• St George’s Day Quiz – teams battling it out to win the St George flag.
• Office Olympics  & BBQ in the Summer...
• The return of the Airsweb Football Cup – we encourage clients to join in a competitive game of football and provide them with a light lunch after.  Great fun and amazing to see the competitive nature of the teams. Now in planning stages and aiming to also make some noise around  ‘registrations'.
• Halloween shenanigans – great opportunity to scare everyone at work with some amazing costumes. You have to donate to wear a costume…

But some of the Airsweb team look for something a little more challenging to support the Charity of the Year and in the past, have completed the Three Peaks and Tough Mudder events. So, watch this space!

Rachel Rossie, Senior Corporate Fundraising Officer shared, “DKMS is thrilled to have been selected as Airsweb’s 2020 Charity of the Year. We are very much looking forward to working together in the fight against blood cancer and helping more blood cancer patients find their potential lifesaving donor.”

If you can  help us in raising donations, you can either scan the QR code, which takes you to our Just Giving page, or you can go direct to our JustGiving page from this link Airsweb JustGiving DKMS

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