Team members from a Stockport housing association are hoping they can unlock the door to success with their latest challenge

We are delighted that colleagues have chosen St Ann’s Hospice as our charity of the year. We have a long list of activities we will be organising throughout the year to support the charity, and hopefully raise lots of money for such a fabulous cause Collette King, Equity Housing Group

We’ve been blown away by Equity’s enthusiasm for supporting St Ann’s – they’ve already really thrown themselves into it, and are buzzing with ideas on how they can raise as much as possible for our patients.  They are also thinking laterally about other ways they can help our charity, by sharing expertise and volunteering their time with different teams in the hospice. Charity of the year partnerships like this one are so important to ensure we can continue to be sustainable and provide care to local people.  We find that, in addition to the obvious financial and team building benefits a partnership of this kind can bring, companies often also use working with us as an opportunity to develop staff, or as a way of raising awareness of their organisation with a broader range of people.With such a huge amount of money to raise every single day we can’t thank businesses and individuals in our local communities enough for all their support.  We really appreciate it, and it’s meant that we have been able to care for local patients for almost half a century.  We’re looking forward to heading towards our fiftieth birthday in a couple of years, thanks to the generosity of people like the team at Equity. Anne-Marie Wynne, Head of Fundraising at St Ann’s