Charity and Community (2015)
Generous Society members help to stock up The People’s Kitchen
Generous members at Leeds Building Society’s branches in the North East have helped a regional homeless charity to stock up its cupboards in the build up to Christmas.
Read articleFrom whiteboards to wheelbarrows for Leeds IT team
A team of 11 volunteers from Leeds Building Society’s IT department resurfaced a bridleway in Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Read articleSimon’s Coast to Coast trek raises over £3,000 for charity
A mortgage product manager at the Society has successfully tackled the 192 mile Coast to Coast walk, over 13 days, from St Bees on England’s west coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on the east coast.
Read articleLeeds team raises over £17,000 for Alzheimer’s Society
A team of 13 colleagues from Leeds Building Society has completed a Coast to Coast cycle from Whitehaven to Sunderland.
Read articleSociety donates £1,000 to water sports charity
Leeds Building Society has made a £1,000 donation to a water sports based charity who work with disadvantaged/at risk young people and disabled people of all ages.
Read articleLeeds sponsors local football team
The Middleton Park FC under 15s football team will be looking smarter next season thanks to a £500 donation from the Society.
Read articleSociety HR professional raises £550 for a cancer charity
Janet Lightfoot from our HR team successfully completed the Leeds Xpress Triathlon at Leeds Grammar School in one hour and 55 minutes, raising £550 for Breast Cancer Now - including £185 in matched funding from the Society.
Read articleThree Peaks challenge team raises £2000
A team of ten colleagues from our Internal Audit team successfully climbed the Yorkshire Three Peaks, raising £2,000 for Alzheimer’s Society.
Read articleHalifax Marathon runner raises £1,000 for a great cause
The manager of our Halifax branch raised £1,000 for a mental health charity by taking part in the Edinburgh Marathon.
Read articleSociety raises £1,200 in Great Yorkshire Bike Ride
Eleven cyclists from our Head Office raised £1,200 for Hollybank Trust by taking part in the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride
Read articleFrom fixed rates to fixing the fells for Leeds Product team
Swapping spreadsheets for spades, our Product team joined a conservation project to help preserve a Lakeland fell for future generations.
Read articleSpring clean for Wallsend Parks
Colleagues from Direct Mortgage department teamed up with the Friends of Wallsend Parks to clear the parks of litter and get them ready for summer.
Read articleLeeds team raises over £500 for local homeless charity
Footballers from the Society raised more than £500 for vulnerable and homeless people in Leeds at a charity tournament.
Read articleLeeds raises over £5,000 for St Gemma’s Hospice
The Colleague Charity Group at the Society raised £5,750 for Leeds based St Gemma’s Hospice in 2014.
Read articleSociety donates £1,250 to Marie Curie
Our branches raised £1,250 for Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal by promoting daffodil pin badges last month.
Read articleIt’s no day at the beach!
Colleagues from our Customer Contact Centre braved the harsh conditions of the Beach Warrior charity event to raise £1,200 for four charities, including the Great North Air Ambulance.
Read articleSociety raises over £5,000 for Hollybank Trust
Society colleagues raised £5,750 for Hollybank Trust in 2014 towards the charity’s work with children and adults with disabilities in Yorkshire.
Read articleGuide Dogs is our charity of the year in the North East
Colleagues at our branches in the North East have chosen Guide Dogs as their charity of the year for 2015.
Read articleSociety raises almost £500 for ill local baby
The Society’s branch in Norwich held a charity day which raised £500 on behalf of an ill local baby, with funds split between Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and Great Ormond Street
Read articleCowgirl rustles up some loot
No, this cowgirl hasn’t just robbed the mail train! It’s actually musical theatre star Jodie Prenger accepting a £25,000 donation on behalf of Age UK from the Society
Read articleSociety Shows Heart
Our branches have been promoting the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
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