VIQU pledges to support UN goals

Last year, VIQU IT Recruitment committed to support the UN’s 17 Global Goals, including on climate change and zero hunger. At the start of this year, VIQU announced its Green Pledge, a three-year journey. Having already achieved Carbon Net Zero within months of its announcement, the VIQU team have turned their attention to one of the UN’s other Global Goals ‘Zero Hunger’. So far, they have made two major donations of food items and toiletries to Birmingham City Mission, a local organisation which helps the homeless, and VIQU plans to do another food bank drive at Christmas.

Pertemps gives old laptops to kids

Recruitment specialist Pertemps Network Group has donated 60 laptops to a Midlands charity that provides devices for schoolchildren to help them catch up on their missed learning during the pandemic. The laptops will be refurbished by Wolves Tech Aid and then redistributed to families in need across the Wolverhampton area.

Hays rises to the 50km challenge for homelessness

In aid of its charity partner End Youth Homelessness (EYH), 54 employees across Hays UK embarked on a 50km+ challenge to raise awareness and funds for the youth homelessness charity (right and main image). The challenge, consisted of cycling 26km to and from the base of the tallest mountain in England, Scafell Pike, hiking 19km up and down the mountain, before completing the challenge with a 5km kayak on Lake Windermere. Their amazing efforts have raised £41k+ for EYH so far, with donations still coming in.

Eurobase golfers go a fairway for The Indee Rose Trust

Chelmsford, Essex-based Eurobase People has chosen The Indee Rose Trust as its charity of the year. The Trust makes bespoke treasure boxes for children around the UK who have been diagnosed with brain and spinal tumours. Three Eurobase staff members played four rounds of golf in a single day, starting at around 4.20am, walking more than a 26-mile marathon and raising over £1,800 on its GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/0a758e5b