Fundraising Activities for Health and Wellness Research
English Charity Partnerships
Since 1998, the English Business has engaged in a series of charity partnerships for consecutive terms of between 12 and 24 months. These have resulted in a cumulative total of some £400,000 being raised for causes such as Crisis (working for homeless people), Barnardo’s (a children’s charity), Sense (for disabled people), Macmillan Cancer Support and Whizz Kidz (supporting disabled children). The money is generated through a combination of employee fundraising, including several Jones Lang LaSalle organized events, and supporting company donations.
English Charity Partner: Help the Hospices
To keep employee interest and charitable participation high, and to support a range of worthy causes, The English Charity Partner program identifies partners for set time periods by inviting employee nominations of charitable organizations, creating a shortlist of nominees and then selecting a finalist. Following a very successful partnership with the Alzheimer’s Foundation, a new charity partner was selected for 2009/2010: Help the Hospices.
Help the Hospices is a national charity for hospice care, providing support to member hospices which care for children and adults with cancer and other terminal illnesses. The care is given free of charge to patients and their friends and family, and is provided in patient homes, in hospices and in the community.
Facing the Three Peaks Challenge
In May 2009, a 25 person team from England participated in the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. The challenge involves climbing the three highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales within a 24-hour period. The team successfully raised more than £13,000.
Building a Sensory Garden
In June 2009, five members of the Upstream Sustainability Services team in London visited the Bromley Branch of the Alzheimer’s Society to help build a “sensory garden” for visitors to the day center. The project involved building a small area where visitors could walk and enjoy colorful plants and aromatic herbs.
Painting for Children
Our people at Jones Lang LaSalle Portugal have been painting or building schools for several organizations, working with Grace, an association which is a member of the Ethos Institute. Their latest effort in 2009 was painting and building the APCL Riding Centre, which is for children with cerebral palsy.
A team from Upstream in London painted a mural, decorated a “chill-out” room and cleared a garden area for Southrise Primary School as part of a “London Better Together Day”.
Team LaSalle Pedals from London to Paris
In June 2008, four Jones Lang LaSalle cyclists completed the 600 kilometer London to Paris Cycle Tour, a three day event. The team raised more than £4,000 from individual donations for the Alzheimer’s Society.
Cycling to MIPIM in Cannes
Five determined London-based employees participated in the 2008 Cycle to Cannes event, which saw 140 members of the property industry cycle in six days from Greenwich in southeast London to Cannes, approximately 1,500km away.
Facing freezing conditions and a range of terrain including mountains known to break even the most experienced Tour de France cyclists, the team was supported by French locals cheering them on in the final stretches. The warmer weather of the south of France made for the perfect finish as the five riders arrived in Cannes in time to start business at MIPIM, a leading industry event. The team raised just over £20,000 for a number of charities supported by this annual event.
Spain Sponsors Paddle Competition
In Spain, we have been working with Aid in Action to sponsor an annual “paddle competition” (a game involving a bat and ball), which has raised nearly €400,000 over ten years to improve the future of thousands of people in Bolivia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Peru. The money raised in the “Torneo de Padel Solidario” also goes to improve the conditions of people with Down Syndrome and others with brain damage in Spain.
EMEA Research Climbs Ben Nevis
In May 2009, a team of 14 employees from the EMEA Research team climbed Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest mountain. Facing thick snow and negative 14 degree wind-chill at the summit proved a shock for some when compared with the fair conditions at sea level. One colleague from the Hamburg office was faced with completing the climb in his socks after his shoes fell apart three quarters of the way up. This didn’t stop him and he completed the challenge with the rest of his team.
One Big Sporting Weekend
In July 2008, we held One Big Sporting Weekend in the UK. The weekend kicked off on a Friday with the King Sturge Property Triathlon, where 97 triathletes from the company completed the task. This was immediately followed by our first World Corporate Games, which drew a Jones Lang LaSalle team of 156 people from offices across England, Germany, Holland and Scotland.
The event took place in Leeds and featured more than 100 companies battling it out over three days in disciplines including tennis, golf, softball, hockey, football, netball, running and dragon boat racing. The Big Sporting Weekend raised over £5,000 for our local charity partner, the Alzheimer's Society.
JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge
Employees at our Frankfurt office participate in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge, an annual running event. The money collected during the event is donated to various social projects.
Making Strides against Breast Cancer
In the UK, a team of five from Jones Lang LaSalle joined the 2008 Moonwalk for breast cancer awareness, raising £12,000 towards a total of £3 million in the whole of the UK.
Jones Lang LaSalle and law firm Baker & McKenzie have joined forces for a number of years to generate support for the American Cancer Society’s “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” walk in Chicago. The event, a spirited but non-competitive five mile walk, raises funds for the American Cancer Society. Walkers from the two firms collected donations totaling more than $27,000 in 2008.
Holland Supports Alpe d’HuZes
In 2008, one of our Dutch colleagues discovered he was ill with acute leukemia. Along with another colleague, he decided to participate in the Alpe d'HuZes initiative of the Koningin Wilhelmina Fonds (KWF/Dutch cancer research fund). Their goal was to cycle, in a single day, at least six times up the Alpe d'Huez, a famous Tour de France stage goal, to raise funds for the KWF. Demonstrating exemplary teamwork, more than € 13,500 was raised for cancer research.
In 2009, the Netherlands continued to provide support to the Alpe d'HuZes initiative of the Koningin Wilhelmina Fund. The charity has so far raised approximately $7.5 million for cancer research in 2009. The Jones Lang LaSalle team contributed about $125,000 by using its marketing potential and its wide network in the real estate sector to attract hundreds of sponsors ranging from employees, alumni, competitors, suppliers, clients and members of the real estate press.
Birmingham Raises Money for Cystic Fibrosis
England’s Birmingham office took part in a charity darts match for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust in March 2008. Jones Lang LaSalle was joint sponsor of the tournament, which was held in memory of a former employee who passed away of the disease at a young age. The event was attended by nearly 200 people and included an auction, which helped raise more than £5,000 for the charity.
Joining forces with a Client for Comic Relief
In April 2009, sixteen teams competed in the inaugural Sainsbury’s / Jones Lang LaSalle Comic Relief Challenge Cup five-a-side football tournament in London.
Joining forces with one of our clients, the leading British supermarket retailer, Sainsbury's, we organized the football competition in support of Comic Relief, which raises funds for projects in the UK and abroad. The competition was a huge success and contributed £5,000 to the Sainsbury's Property team's overall fundraising effort of £50,000 for Comic Relief 2009.
A Christmas Fair for Alzheimer’s Society
In November 2008, our London offices hosted its first Christmas Fair in support of the English Business charity partner, Alzheimer’s Society. The event, which was staged at the Hanover Square office, raised more than £4,200 and was attended by more then 400 people, including 100 children.
Trekking the Scottish Highlands for Charity
In 2009, three teams of employees from Scotland took part in the RBS Caledonian Challenge. In a 24-hour period, the teams trekked 54 miles through some of the most rugged countryside in Scotland. The participants set a fundraising target of £8,000 for the Scottish Community Foundation. It was the fifth consecutive year in which Jones Lang LaSalle teams participated in the event.
Christmas Tunes for Irish Children
In Ireland in 2007, we donated 150 MP3 players to the three main children’s hospitals in Dublin to be given as Christmas presents.