Staff within the IFG Group raised the stakes in the company’s Christmas charity fundraising drive to donate ?3,000 towards Rebecca House.

IFG has traditionally held a Christmas charity raffle, but this year the event was replaced by ‘IFGBay’, which saw the company’s Island-based IT team create a bidding site for staff to make offers on a range of items received from suppliers during the last 12 months.

Following the recent acquisition and subsequent development of a Fund Administration business, to add to its existing Trust and Corporate business, IFG now employs more than 150 people locally and all successful staff bids on ‘IFGBay’ were donated to Rebecca House, which offers specialist care for children in the Island and is run by Hospice Care.

Derek Boyle, IFG’s manager of central administration services, organises the annual charity event and was delighted to hand over the cheque for ?3,000 to Hospice’s fundraising and PR manager, Tina Lawton, who accepted on behalf of Rebecca House.

Mr Boyle said: ‘Rebecca House provides a vital facility for the Island and the fantastic sum raised by our event shows how strongly our staff feel about the work it does.

'Rebecca House receives no Government funding so relies totally on the generosity of the people of the Island to support it, and IFG was pleased to be able to help.’

Hospice chairman John Quinn said: ‘It’s a most generous and welcome donation from the staff at IFG.

‘Our children’s Hospice offers specialist palliative care for youngsters with life limiting or life threatening conditions and their families, which means providing respite and emergency care in the new purpose-built Rebecca House – and this is only possible with the kind of support shown by IFG, and many others around the Island.’

(Picture of Karen Harris, finance and operations director (left), and Derek Boyle, present the cheque to Suzanne Hodgson (second right) and Tina Lawton from Rebecca House.)