A team of travel agents has raised nearly \u00a3700 for a cause close to their hearts.<\/p>\n
Hays Travel staff in Topsham took on a cycling challenge in support of Prostate Cancer UK, covering the distance from their Fore Street branch to the company\u2019s Sunderland head office using an in-store exercise bike.<\/p>\n
Claire Raddon, branch manager at Hays Travel Topsham, said: “We had to each do about 15 miles a day, but some days it was more to cover staff days off.<\/p>\n
“We hit our target by Friday afternoon, so we just carried on throughout Saturday and hit 400 miles.”<\/p>\n
The five-member team aimed to complete 362 miles during the week of February 23, cycling more than 70 miles each day.<\/p>\n
They exceeded their goal and decided to keep going.<\/p>\n
Ms Raddon said Prostate Cancer UK was chosen because “a number of our relatives sadly have had the disease, so it means a lot to us.<\/p>\n
“We had such a good response from the community – they all loved it.”<\/p>\n
The fundraiser brought in a total of \u00a3689 for the charity.<\/p>\n
Hays Travel is the UK\u2019s largest independent travel agent, with branches across the country.<\/p>\n
Each branch receives a \u00a3500 budget to support fundraising and charity work.<\/p>\n
Of this, \u00a3200 is allocated to causes supporting young people\u2019s mental health, while the remaining \u00a3300 can support charities chosen by the branch.<\/p>\n
Through the company\u2019s Local Community Partnership initiative, almost \u00a3170,000 has been donated to local charities in the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team of travel agents has raised nearly \u00a3700 for a cause close to their hearts. Hays Travel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,264504,784,264506,264503,264502,85,264505,203560],"class_list":["post-532761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-claire-raddon","tag-cycling","tag-fore-street-branch","tag-hays-travel","tag-prostate-cancer-uk","tag-sports","tag-topsham","tag-travel-agents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}