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Community Spirit

Express Solicitors is proud to support a diverse rang of charities and good causes. As a specialist personal injury firm, we donate to charities relevant to the types of cases we work on, such as Headway - the brain injury association.

Other charities and causes close to our employees' hearts are also supported, and the firm does this in a variety of ways.

Dress down days, silly-hat wearing days, charity runs, and cycle rides have all been used recently to raise money for worthy causes, and money raised by staff is regularly matched by the firm to bolster the coffers of the appeal in question.

Action Medical Research – Dress Down Day

July 2010 - Action Medical Research is the UK’s leading medical research charity dedicated to helping babies and children. They strive to reduce premature birth, pregnancy complications and infections in vulnerable children, as well as helping children and their families who are disabled, infected or suffer from rare conditions. A dress down day was organised to raise funds and donations were collected and matched by the firm, who is proud to support such an important charity.
 

The Genesis Appeal – Dress Down Day

June 2010 - Express Solicitors a recent mufti day in aid of The Genesis Appeal, the only charity in the UK dedicated to the prevention of breast cancer. 1 in 10 women, and 1 in 1000 men will contract the disease at some point in their lives, so prevention is clearly important. Yet, only 2% of all breast cancer research funding is spent on prevention, so The Genesis Appeal seeks to redress that balance. Staff at Express Solicitors were encouraged to wear their own clothes for a day, making a donation to the appeal for the privilege. Donations were matched by the firm, and a fantastic total was raised.
 

Hats For Headway

May 2010 - Express Solicitors had a lot of fun participating in its first 'Hats for Headway' day. Come 8:30am, employees turned up for work in some rather outrageous head gear (see photographs!). A cash donation was paid to the Headway charity by all participants.

While it was a fun day, the reason for doing it was totally serious. Headway is a charity concerned with helping and supporting people who are affected by brain injury. They do this in many different ways, chiefly by running rehabilitation programmes at their UK centres, supporting carers of brain injury patients and by helping patients reintegrate into society.

As well as this, they lobby for better support and resources for those affected, and promote better understanding of brain injuries and their implications through running a helpline and publishing information leaflets. All in all, they do a fantastic job for those affected by this most serious of conditions. Click here to see videos about the great work Headway does.

A fantastic amount of money was raised, and this was matched by the firm. Honourable mentions go to lawyers who turned up for work in trilbies and secretarial staff wearing santa hats (in May!).

Rumours of Express Solicitors participating in future ‘Pants for PETA’ and ‘Birthday-suit for Barnardos’ charity days are, as of yet, unconfirmed...

Local Football Team Sponsorship

Express Solicitors is the proud sponsor of two football teams.

Atlético Chorlton FC were established in 2006 and play in the Manchester Amateur Sunday League. The team finished a respectable 3rd in the 2009/10 season, and will be hoping for continued success next season with the Express Solicitors logo emblazoned across their “Dutch-style” orange home kit.

Fletcher Moss Rangers FC U-16s have two teams – ‘blue’ managed by Tony Taylor and ‘yellow’ managed by Jerome Tait. 2009/10 was a highly successful season, as both ‘blues’ and ‘yellows’ reached the cup final in May and were pitted against one another!

The shirt sponsorship of both Atlético Chorlton and Fletcher Moss Rangers U-16s brings in valuable revenue to the clubs, facilitating the purchase of kit, training pitch hire and equipment.

Helen Edwards Completes Charity Bike Ride

There are many sporting individuals amongst the ranks here at Express Solicitors, with cycle rides and long-distance runs undertaken to raise money for charities. Recently, Helen Edwards participated in a gruelling ride in support of two charities: Help For Heroes and Breast Cancer Research. The yellow shirted riders made it all the way from Gretna Green to Westhoughton near Bolton, and the total raised to date is £10,000. Managing to still be smiling, she's pictured second from the left on the back row.

Vicky McLean visits Bolton Royal Infirmary

The work of doctors and nurses at Bolton Royal Infirmary is particularly close to one Express Solicitors employee’s heart. Both of Vicky McLean’s children were born dangerously premature, but both Harry and Olivia survived thanks to the efforts of staff at the hospital.

Having witnessed at first hand the tough time kids on children’s ward B2 have of it, Vicky returned to the hospital this Easter to try and bring a little bit of joy to the residents. A sponsored ‘dress down Friday’ was organised by Express, who matched pound-for-pound donations by staff members.

Over one hundred chocolate Easter eggs were purchased with the proceeds raised, and Vicky distributed them amongst the kids on the ward. Of course, very sick children need the medicines and expert care that only a top hospital like Bolton can provide. . . but at the end of the day they are still children who like scoffing chocolate like the rest of us!

As well as the above, Express Solicitors has helped a long list of diverse charities in recent years, including:

• Bolton Hospital
• Christies
• Dare it Pink
• Fort Alice Women's Refuge
• Francis House
• Genesis Appeal
• Macmillan Cancer Support
• Monkey World
• NSPCC
• Rainbow Trust
• RNIB
• RNLI
• RSPCA
• St Ann's Hospice
• Tameside Animal Shelter
• Tree House

• APIL
• Law Society
• Lexcel
• Headway
• InjuryLawyers4U
• Solicitors Regulation Authority