Thameslink and Great Northern support staff charity work

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This month Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Gatwick Express have hit the £3,000 mark for making donations in support of railway staff who raise money in their own time for charity.

Since September 2014, staff on all four routes have taken on a variety of challenges to support charities close to their hearts. In total, their efforts have raised over £8,000, with many more donations to come. Each individual has received £100 to support their efforts.

Fundraisers include Rhys Kelly of Hitchin Road, Luton, who is a Revenue Control Officer at Blackfriars (as pictured above, left) and is walking the Three Peaks of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in 24 hours for Macmillan Cancer Support, and Laura Haynes, a driver at King’s Cross who ran 38 floors to the top of the Gherkin Challenge to support the NSPCC.

Organisation Development Manager Jason Rassell (pictured above, right) is running three marathons in just three weeks, in Brighton, London and Salzburg, before completing a half Iron Man challenge in September, all for St Barnabas Hospice.

Thameslink and Great Northern’s Community Investment and CSR Manager, Andy Harrowell, said:

“We are focused on supporting our local charities and communities. This includes adopting charity Max Appeal as our corporate charity, providing raffle prizes to local good causes for their own fundraising efforts, as well as working with community partners who wish to adopt our stations.

“At the same time we know that individuals across our organisation want to go out of their way, in their own time, to support charities which they are passionate about and we are amazed by how much they have been able to raise for a variety of good causes.”

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