Cancer Research UK
- A two-year partnership from April 2023 - March 2025
- Objectives: to raise health and wellbeing awareness, fundraise and increase volunteering opportunities
- 100% of the funds you raise will go towards early diagnosis
Congratulations to all of our STEPtember challengers!
Top of the leaderboard and taking the Award for the ‘Most Steps Counted’ was the Public Estates Scrambled Legs Team with 2,891,967 steps!
Hot on their heels with an equally impressive 2,597,397 steps are the Remote Walkers in 2nd, with Team Felley slipstreaming in 3rd with 2,451,581!
Congratulations to the Public Estates Scrambled Legs team, what an incredible step campaign!
Across 57 entries and 240 colleagues, our teams raised a brilliant £23,888 smashing our target of £17,500 – thank you. This amount could fund a research assistant at Cancer Research UK for over 7 months, helping find the next breakthrough in cancer research.
Throughout the challenge we received feedback about a plethora of achievements and heard some incredibly inspiring anecdotes. Thank you to everyone who engaged, sharing your activities, photos and successes. You’ve done everything from roller skating, walking Teams meetings, bouldering, dancing, martial arts, overcome challenging hikes, included our four-legged friends along the way, and captured the sights and sounds of your local communities.
Congratulations and 'thank you' to everyone involved. You've surpassed expectations - you've been awesome. Together we are beating cancer.
The Early Careers Challenge
It’s all over! The Early Careers Challenge for CRUK has concluded for another year.
£12,414 RAISED!
What is the challenge?
Teams were asked to think of and deliver innovative activities to raise as much money as possible for CRUK over the course of 6 working weeks, 22 July to 2 September. Each team are supported by our brilliant business mentors.
Summary
Amey and CRUK are incredibly proud of our 19 Early Careers colleagues who participated in this year’s challenge.
In September we came together to celebrate the groups achievements and listen in to 3 incredible presentations delivered by the teams, bringing their experiences and learning to life. Big up to everyone who spoke so well in front of so many people.
During the Celebration event we recocognised a plethora of achievements and heard some incredibly inspiring anecdotes. Congratulations and 'thank you' to all of our participants and mentors. You've surpassed expectations - you've been awesome.
Our employee chosen charity partnership...
Our objectives are:
- to raise awareness of the disease – we will be sharing information, considering lifestyle choices and providing access to support if necessary
- to fundraise – we will be having fun and getting active to fundraise for the charity, with every pound going towards beating cancer
- to support employees volunteering – we will be providing opportunities to get out into the community and volunteer for the charity
Over the next two years, 100% of the funds you raise will go directly to vital research focused on catching cancer earlier. Spotting cancer at an early stage means that treatment is more likely to be successful.
We have a number of exciting events to get involved with over the coming months that we can’t wait to tell you about, but for now, there are some fantastic initiatives for you to get involved with:
- Sign up to Race for Life at raceforlife.org and get 50% off the entry fee, please email Sue Racster for the discount code.
- For a quick and easy way to give, sign up to Pennies From Heaven and donate the extra pennies from your payslip here.
Please remember to share a photo on social media and donate using our new partnership fundraising page
Pennies From Heaven
Pennies From Heaven is a way to donate the pennies from your payslip to charity every time you are paid.
How it works?
- Each month your salary is rounded down to nearest pound and donated to Cancer Research UK. Example: if net pay was £850.34 then 34p would be donated.
- The most you’d ever give is 99p per month – and the least is 0p per month!
- 100% of donations will be received by CRUK and will be used help in the fight against cancer. Plus, HMRC will add 25% at no cost.
- The average total is £6 a year – this would buy 150 test tubes to be used in cancer-fighting experiments.
Sign up to Pennies From Heaven. You'll find the link in our quick links to the right.
People managers of frontline workers can download our poster and a paper copy of the sign up form here.
Payroll Giving
Payroll Giving is a simple and tax-effective way to support charity directly through your salary.
How it works:
- Payroll Giving is also known as Give As You Earn (GAYE).
- Your donation is deducted before tax, meaning a £10 donation will only cost you £8 if you're a standard rate taxpayer. And even less if you're a higher rate taxpayer.
- You can choose how much money you donate monthly and can choose to donate to a number of different charities.
- Donating just £8 a month means that over the year, CRUK can buy 500 petri dishes, to grow and study cancer cells.
How do I apply?
Click the 'Payroll Giving 'Apply Now'' button on this page (scroll back up the page and look right) and submit the form.
Once selected, the deductions will continue until you choose to cancel the benefit. You can cancel at any time by emailing peopleservices@amey.co.uk.
Tell us your stories and ideas
If you get involved in any of our fundraising initiatives, or come up with any of your own ideas to support Cancer Research UK, then we want to hear all about it.
Post about it on X, Facebook, LinkedIn or internally on Viva Engage and tag Amey. Please use the hashtag #AmeyCRUK, so we can follow your activities.