05 March 2010
TUI overseas staff raise £50,000 to help struggling families
From sponsored head-shaving to swimathons, and from Slave-for-the-day auctions to gala show nights, First Choice and Thomson staff put their all into fundraising for disadvantaged families.

Hundreds of TUI overseas staff took part in fundraising events for the Family Holiday Association during 2009. Altogether, they raised an astonishing £50,421. 
 

Slave-for-the-day; gala shows and head-shaving

All around the Mediterranean and beyond, from sponsored head-shaving to swimathons, and from Slave-for-the-day auctions to gala show nights, First Choice and Thomson staff put their all into fundraising for disadvantaged families.
 
John McDonald, director of the Family Holiday Association, said "By getting involved, and by involving their overseas holiday-makers, TUI staff have raised enough money to help hundreds of disadvantaged children and parents get a desperately needed break away from home this year.  We can't thank them enough".

 

Photographed above are Ian Chapman Head of Overseas Operations at TUI (2nd from right) celebrates the success of his teams' fundraising with (from left to right) Allan Fell, Clare Cameron, Zoe Johnson (all from TUI) and Abigail Pugh from the Family Holiday Association.  

 

The presentation took place in Malta on Saturday 27 February following the Malta Marathon when a number of TUI overseas staff took part, including Ian Chapman.

 

Click here and here to read of some of the exploits of TUI staff fundraising overseas.