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Homebase raises £550,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care

Howard Lake | 16 August 2007 | News

Employees and customers of home improvement retailer Homebase have raised £550,000 in the first year of the company’s first ever two year charity partnership.

The ‘No Place Like Home’ campaign target of £500,000 was reached within a year, with staff at 300 Homebase stores getting involved in fundraising events such as quizzes, dress-down days, and charity cricket matches.

Homebase customers have boosted the total by buying £17,000 worth of Marie Curie Cancer Care trolley keyrings. They also raised £8,000 through buying potted Tete a Tete daffodils.

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Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care, said: “A new target of £1 million for our partnership with Homebase will enable us to fund home care and support for 1,000 patients in communities across the country.”

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