Making a difference to others
Supporting designated charities
Synergy formally supports a group of designated charities to provide a focus for our fundraising and volunteering efforts.
The Blue Cross
The Blue Cross is an animal welfare charity which has animal hospitals, and offers adoption and re-homing services, all around the UK. The Blue Cross also offers many other services, such as pet bereavement counselling, mobile clinic services, treatment of pets whose owners cannot afford veterinary treatment – and educating the public in responsible animal ownership.
PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy)
This is a little-known, devastating terminal brain disease, yet as common (if not more so) than motor neurone disease. The progressive death of nerve endings in the brain destroys balance, movement, vision, speech, the ability to swallow and so on. There is no cure for this – and the average life expectancy of a sufferer is seven years, the last two of which can be wheelchair or bedbound. Both the actor Dudley Moore and the journalist Nigel Dempster tragically died from PSP.
Dragonflies Bereavement Project
The Dragonflies Bereavement Project is very small charity which supports young people aged between five and sixteen, who have been, or are in the process of being, bereaved (usually having lost a parent or sibling). The charity aims to offer positive forward-looking sessions to help young people take steps along their personal bereavement journeys.
A long-term history of commitment to charitable events
Synergy has, over the years, supported many charities. Our charities are always chosen by members of Synergy’s staff – usually those who have been involved with or affected by them. Charities we have supported in the past include Macmillan Cancer Support, Red Cross, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Breast Cancer Research, Children in Need, Tsunami Appeal, Comic Relief, National Missing Persons Helpline, British Heart Foundation, Multiple Sclerosis Society, National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease, BLISS and Whizz-Kidz.
We typically choose to work with charities which are reflective of our own business size – rather than make a relatively small donation to a major charity, we would prefer to work with a small- or medium-sized charity, with which we can make a real difference.