Charity: Eversheds runners support cancer charity and Leeds Community Foundation looks to add to its trustee team
Runners from Eversheds have supported local charity Team Verrico by running the Anna Verrico Isle of Axenholme half marathon at the end of 2016.
Team Verrico was set up by Eversheds regulatory partner, Paul Verrico, following the tragic death of his wife Anna Verrico from breast cancer.
Mr Verrico said that his wife championed the ‘never give up’ philosophy throughout her battle with cancer and she was heroic to the end setting a great example for her beloved children Lucia and Alessandro.
He said this gave him the conviction to set up the Team Verrico charity to promote Anna’s philosophy and to help other families to adopt it whilst going through the challenging fight against cancer.
The Eversheds team helped push Lucia and Alessandro in buggies round the course which inevitably ended up in a race between siblings.
Lucia finished in a respectable time under 2 hours and Alessandro was gracious in coming in second.
Eversheds provided continued financial support through its charitable trust set up by the Eversheds partners and senior office partner, Paul Cotton, presented principal associate, Simon Harris, with a cheque to add to the amount of funds raised by the team. The next challenge is the Great North Run in September 2017.
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The Leeds Community Foundation is looking for trustees and subcommittee members to drive the charity forward.
LCF is governed by a board of 10-11 trustees who are also company directors and are responsible for overseeing the overall strategic direction of the Foundation, as well as having legal and financial responsibility.
The board delegates some responsibility to three subcommittees which meet quarterly and have between 6 and 10 members, including both trustee and non-trustee representatives.
The three committees include the Finance, Audit & Governance committee: responsible for overseeing the accounts and financial systems, Grants & Programmes which is responsible for overseeing the overall strategy and policy development for grants and programmes and Development & Marketing which develops marketing and PR plans; agrees the events and networking programme and delivers the donor development programme with individuals and companies.
If you are interested in being considered for the trustee or subcommittee roles, please send a copy of your CV and a covering note explaining why you are interested and what specific skills you would bring to the role to simone@leedscf.org.uk before 27 January.
