CBRE team helps Acorns grow after completing Great Birmingham Run

A TEAM of seven runners from property consultancy CBRE raised more than £600 for local children’s charity Acorns when they crossed the finishing line at the Great Birmingham Run.
 
The sprightly seven trained as a team during their lunch hours to ready themselves for the half-marathon, which passed some of the city’s best known landmarks such as the Bullring, Cadbury World and Edgbaston Stadium.
 
Acorns provides care and support for children with life limiting or life threatening injuries and their families.
 
CBRE runner Jan Losch, an associate director in the firm’s valuation advisory team, said: “Acorns is a fabulous charity and the fact that it is local is another reason for us picking it.
 
“But there was a further reason for us to support it in that it has affected our office directly as a former colleague is being assisted by Acorns.
 
“We have been doing some volunteering work there on a regular basis and this has brought it home to us that while running 13.1 miles isn’t an easy thing to do, it pales into insignificance besides the effort being put in to help vulnerable children and their families by this wonderful charity.”
 
Jan was joined in the CBRE team by surveyors Will Sherlock and Owen Williams, and graduate surveyors Susannah Byles-Walters, John Roberts – the team’s fastest runner, who clocked a time of one hour 35 minutes – and Craig Herrick. There was also a guest runner in the shape of Sofi Liperis, a land buyer at Persimmon Homes.
 
The CBRE runners are no strangers to long distance events. In 2015 they ran the Birmingham 10K race (winning the medium-sized company category) and Birmingham Half-Marathon (finishing third). At the Great Birmingham Run, the team was the fastest overall in the “Medium Business” category.
 
And it is unlikely to be the last time the fleet-footed property experts put on their running shoes in the name of charity.
 
“Knowing that you’re helping such a great charity to continue its essential work keeps you going through the difficult miles,” said Losch.
 
“It makes you realise that the odd blister doesn’t matter in the great scheme of things.”

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