Huge cash boost for trust

Jun 5 2008 by Shirley Bartynek

THE life-saving leukaemia charity The Anthony Nolan Trust was given a major boost after receiving a donation of almost £50,000 from a Lanarkshire-based business.

Staff from Clyde Valley Drilling (CVD) Ltd, Scotland's diamond drilling company, raised the money after completing a series of fund-raising events throughout 2007, and the money will be used to help the charity maintain and expand the bone marrow register in Scotland.

Some of the fund-raising events undertaken by the staff at CVD at Eurocentral, included abseiling down the Wallace Monument, sponsored runs, swimming with sharks and raffling off a rare black diamond necklace that was specially commissioned by the company.

In September 2007, Owen Barrett, MD of CVD, trekked 23,000ft to the summit of Mera Peak in Nepal, and in February this year his fellow director Ewan Ogilvie climbed 19,340ft to reach the summit of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro.

Tom McAteer of Balfour Beatty, a client of CVD, also made a significant contribution to the amount raised by completing a series of sponsored swims.