All sorts of exciting Christmas activity took place during December, including colleagues getting involved with decorating gingerbread houses with their friends and family, wearing their best festive outfit for Christmas jumper day, taking part in our festive raffle and guessing the correct number of sweets in a jar as well as the Lloyd’s children’s Christmas party.
Congratulations to our winners this Christmas and thank you all for taking part.
£4,636
raised so far in total for all our charities
£3,984
raised so far for Habitat for Humanity GB
134
toys donated to the ELBA Toy Appeal
These activities and events were held to raise money for the Lloyd’s of London Foundation charity partner, Habitat for Humanity GB, to help tackle housing poverty and transforming empty and disused properties to affordable social housing for young people.
Prize: Fortnum & Mason Christmas surprise
London: Jamie Curtis (Beazley)
Chatham: Graham McCormack (Lloyd’s)
Prize: Fortnum & Mason Christmas hamper
Team 2: Matilda, Sarah, Linda, Sam, Chris and Charlotte
A special thanks to our lovely judging panel for volunteering to judge our gingerbread house entries, Veronica Senior (Lloyd’s), David Parr (Lloyd’s), Khadija Amir (Habitat for Humanity), Jemma Reid (Habitat for Humanity).
With your donations we were able to raise £1991.96 for Habitat for Humanity GB and counting. Lloyd’s will match fund the donations, so the current total is £3983.92.
We work with Habitat for Humanity GB to help fulfil their goal of a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live.
We are proud to support Habitat for Humanity Great Britain.
Our partnership launched in October 2019 and together we are building resilient communities that can withstand and recover from the devastating impact of natural disasters.
Lloyd’s also took part in the ELBA Toy Appeal again this year, setting up our own little Santa’s drop off box at the Lloyd’s Coffee House.
All of the toys collected were donated to support the Lloyd’s of London Foundation partner’s annual Christmas campaign. Toys were distributed to children who would have otherwise gone without this Christmas in East London and Islington.
The toy appeal featured on ITV news, which you can watch below.
Our fantastic colleagues from the Corporation and the market generously donated 76 toys to our internal Toy Appeal, and a further 58 toys through the Amazon gift page to the value of £652.15.
We are proud to say Lloyd’s made it in the top 10 leader board for donations.
ELBA’s Community Works programme supports and strengthens the voluntary and community sector in east London.
Through a range of voluntary-based programmes, businesses can bring their time, skills and expertise to support voluntary organisations who lack the funding and resources to carry out their critical work.
The Lloyd’s of London Foundation is the independent charity founded and funded by Lloyd’s.
We provide a vehicle for charitable activity and engagement for Lloyd’s Corporation and a centre of expertise for delivering long-term, meaningful social impact alongside our employees, market firms and wider stakeholders.
Aishah Yasmin - Global Community Engagement Administrator, Lloyd's
24 Dec 2022
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