BMO GAM team to walk around M25 as CASCAID kicks off 2018 fundraising

For Great Ormond Street Hospital

Natalie Kenway
clock • 2 min read

Rob Thorpe and BMO Global Asset Management's distribution and marketing teams are kicking off this year's fundraising for CASCAID with a 117-mile walk around the M25.

Last year, members of the asset management industry raised £2.2m for Cancer Research UK through many different challenges and events including mountain climbs, night walks, driving around the UK in a Robin Reliant, a 24-hour dart-a-thon, country-wide cycling and Incisive Media's Great British Pub Quiz. This year, CASCAID will begin raising cash again in June for the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), one of the world's leading children's hospitals. It is aiming to raise £1m initially over a one-year timeframe but if over £2m is raised like last year, they will be able to fund a new car...

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