Staff at the Bristol office of accountants and business advisers BDO have been taking a break from the office to provide gardening support to Penny Brohn Cancer Care, the local charity helping people live well with the impacts of cancer.
As part of its company-wide corporate social responsibility commitment, each BDO employee gets six days leave a year to support good causes.
Penny Brohn Cancer Care was selected as BDO’s charity for 2011 due to its excellent work providing a support system for people with cancer in the greater Bristol area.
The charity, established in 1980, offers free specialist support including advice, counselling and complementary therapies for people with cancer and those close to them.
A team of 12 from BDO, ranging from executives to directors, began weeding and planting bulbs in the garden in October and helping lay the stones for the centre’s new ‘memory path’.
BDO service charge accounting team assistant manager Kathryn Archer said: “The centre has large grounds and the garden is an integral part of the charity’s offering, providing residents and day visitors with a calm, tranquil environment in which to sit and reflect.”
BDO has also raised funds to buy specialist, non-chemical paint for the centre’s bedrooms.
Following successful cake sales and a sponsored moustache grow by the business restructuring team, which alone raised £667, the £1,000 target set for next March has already been reached.
Photo caption: L-R: Phil Miller, executive, business restructuring, Mark Roach, director, business restructuring, Sophie Tanner, senior executive, global outsourcing and Sam Wood, assistant manager, business restructuring, working in the Penny Brohn Cancer Care garden.
