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Media group doubles charity cash

Archant media group staff have raised a record-breaking £13,200 for their favourite good causes in the first six months of this year – and the Archant Gold scheme has matched every penny.

The scheme matches charity cash raised by Archant employees so that their favourite good causes get a double helping.

Among staff who had their efforts recognised by Archant Gold and their cash doubled were Eastern Daily Press quartet Lisa Powell, Margaret Wraith, Helen Smith and Lyn Ewing – who took part in a saucy adults-only pirate adventure.

  • Lisa Powell (left), from the EDP in
    King’s Lynn, was a panto pirate
  • Also:

  • Newham Recorder editor Colin Grainger swam 50 lengths of the local pool to raise money for the Community Links organisation.
  • Paul Skingley, Paul Mobbs, Andy Hollis, Graham Cook, Dave Ashford, Mick Scanlon and Richard Martin from the pre-press department of Archant Suffolk in Ipswich, completed a 65-mile bike ride.
  • Susan Aykroyd from the Archant North London’s recruitment telesales department and Ilford Recorder editorial assistant Maxine Leckerman, who took part in the Macmillan Cancer Relief Swimathon.
  • Literally grabbing cash for charity in a wind-swept cubicle was the task of Hampstead & Highgate Express reporter Matthew Eley.
  • A 55-strong Archant team raced for their lives in Norwich, among 5,000 women who took part in the Cancer Research UK Race for Life event.
  • Ilford Recorder duo, reporter Anita Patterson and telesales rep Chris Hampton, teamed up to organise a quiz night at the Ilford Snooker Club for colleagues.
  • East Anglian Daily Times Woodbridge chief reporter Richard Smith, and Nichola Newbery of the recruitment team at Archant Hertfordshire, ran the London Marathon, while Sarah Scott from Norwich ad production completed the Paris Marathon.
  • Archant communications manager Keith Morris helped to organise an open gardens and family fun day in the Norfolk village of Wreningham.
  • Richard Tree, from the Norwich Advertiser, took part in a sponsored non-stop 100-hour broadcasting marathon in May on Hospital Radio Lynn.
  • Dereham & Fakenham Times reporter Richard Parr completed his fourth London Marathon in April to raise a magnificent £1,500 for Palms.

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