Wealth Management and Employee Benefits business, Mattioli Woods plc, has raised over £10,000 for its week-long cycling challenge in support of national charity Breast Cancer Now.
The Tour de Mattioli Woods included a static bike challenge with bikes in each of its offices covering a distance of 702 miles between Aberdeen and London, via Glasgow, Buckingham, Newmarket and Leicester.
In addition to this challenge, a team of employees including Chief Executive Ian Mattioli and his wife, also took to the road and cycled a total of 227 miles from the Leicester office to Buckingham, Newmarket and back to Leicester to raise additional funds. Ian commented:
“This initiative has been a great testament to the community spirit we are building in our business. I am very proud our whole group has come together to raise donations for such a worthy cause”.
Breast Cancer Now is the UK’s largest breast cancer charity and is dedicated to funding research into this devastating disease. It focuses its energies on four critical areas: prevention, early detection and diagnosis, treatments and secondary breast cancer. By tackling the disease in the labs, on the political agenda, through public health information and with the health service, it believes it can transform the outlook for everyone affected by breast cancer. This year, over 50,000 women will be told they have the disease and over 1,000 women in the UK will have their lives cut short by breast cancer every month.
Bob Woods, Mattioli Woods Chairman, commented:
“There has been a massive increase in breast cancer over the last 40 years – on average it has more than doubled in Western countries, and in some quadrupled. Further, there is evidence that the rate is actually increasing. Whilst some of the factors which lead to this disease are known, it is still not yet well understood. Breast Cancer Now’s primary objective is to support research to ensure that, by the middle of the century, nobody dies of this awful disease”.
The cycling challenge was the first of a series of fundraising events for Mattioli Woods, including its annual charity dinner which takes place at Leicester Cathedral in October.
Mattioli Woods JustGiving pages are still open for donations: https://www.justgiving.com/Tour-de-MattioliWoods/ and https://www.justgiving.com/real-tour-de-mattioli-woods/