CASCAID raises over £500k in two months; Calls for participants for 5k fun run in October

Number of challenges already completed

CASCAID, the industry-wide initiative to raise £1m for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) by June 2019 has already raised over half a million pounds for the charity, just over two months since launch.

In its end-of-month update for August, the charity revealed it has already broken through the half a million mark in its goal to raise £1m for GOSH. A large portion of funds raised so far has come from the Gala Dinner for GOSH, which kicked off this year's campaign in June, but there have also been many challenges that have already been completed and helped boost this figure. Chelsea Financial Services raised over £2,000 with its 24-hour dart-a-thon, while BlackRock's Jeremy Roberts and a team of 30 of his colleagues raised £23,000 following a run, cycle and row endurance challenge. ...