Local companies relax their dress code! |
| Friday, 25 January 2008 |
 Local companies shed their formal dress code on Friday in aid of The Peace Hospice’s annual Dress Down Day event. Some of the Arriva bus drivers surprised their passengers by dressing up as a variety of super heroes that included the Incredible Hulk and Cleopatra.
A large number of businesses took part in the scheme and included Mothercare, M&S, Arriva, Watford Football Club, SA Law, KPMG, Total UK Ltd, Connells estate agents, Wilkinsons, HSBC, RBS, Myers Clark, Clydesdale Bank and the 288 Group.
Corporate Development Manager at the Hospice Maggie Grand said ‘This was our fifth Dress Down Day sponsored by SA Law and Kall Kwik and I was delighted that businesses showed their support to the Hospice by taking part. Employees were encouraged to swap their suits for jeans, to dress up or dress down, or even run with a theme such as bad taste, favourite football team, by wearing a hat or wig for the day or by wearing one of our special Dress Down Day t-shirts. The event brought a bit of fun during a month that can often be quite gloomy and cold’.
Arriva’s Colin Sumner dressed up as the incredible hulk and said ‘We got a lot of stick with our colleagues at the depot but it was great fun! The Peace Hospice does a remarkable job and it was great that we could support them in this way. It also brought a smile to our customers when they got on our buses’!
The Peace Hospice provides specialist palliative care for people from across South West Hertfordshire with cancer or other terminal illness. The care that the Hospice provides is holistic and looks after the whole person, and their family/carers, helping with emotional and spiritual issues as well as physical symptoms. The Peace Hospice focuses on enabling patients to live their lives to the full and providing the best quality of life when a cure is not possible.It costs £3.1m a year to provide these services and over 75% of this is supported through charitable donations. All the care that the Hospice provides to its patients is free.
Dress Down Day is the first of an action packed events programme for the Hospice that includes the flagship Starlight Walk event in June. The Hospice will also be launching a new cycle event later in August called ‘Pedal for Peace’. Further information on all of the Hospice's events are available by visiting www.peacehospice.org.uk or calling the Fundraising Team on 01923 330340.
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