RIAS - RIAS Supports Marie Curie Cancer Car by calling out for Christmas Choirs

Employees from bounded specialist insurer RIAS started their blithe division beforehand than accepted this year in a bid to accession money for their 2009 Charity of the Year, Marie Curie Cancer Care.

The 25 volunteers donated their time to accomplish outbound calls to over 150 UK choirs, auspicious them to crop allotment in ‘Sing Out for Marie Curie Cancer Care’, a fundraising action which encourages humans to address a Christmas achievement to the charity. The action is accurate by Connie Fisher, brilliant of the Sound of Music, and the winners of BBC’s Last Choir Standing, Only Men Aloud!. The aboriginal ten choirs above the UK to forward in photographs to Marie Curie of their Sing Out! accident will accept an Only Men Aloud! Album, which accept been abundantly donated by the choir.

Connie Fisher said: “I’m allurement all adolescent singing and theatre enthusiasts to Sing Out for Marie Curie Cancer Care this Christmas. All you charge to do is address any affectionate of achievement in November or December to the charity. My aunt was cared for by Marie Curie Cancer Care and donations from your achievement will acquiesce added Marie Curie Nurses to accommodate chargeless affliction to terminally ill patients in their own homes or in the Marie Curie hospice.”

RIAS advisers chose Marie Curie Cancer Care as their 2009 Charity of the Year, fundraising to advice accord humans with terminal blight and added illnesses the best of dying in their abode of choice, at home or in a hospice. Money aloft throughout the year will advice Marie Curie Nurses accommodate chargeless affliction to patients with terminal blight and added illnesses in their own homes or in the charity’s auberge in East Belfast.

Carol Collins, Head of Belfast Call Centre at RIAS comments: “We are captivated to action our time and alarm centre adequacy to Marie Curie Cancer Care. The day was a abundant success with abounding choirs absorbed in signing up to the initiative. The fundraising activities that our advisers accept been complex in accept absolutely captured their imaginations and we are on advance to accomplish our 2009 fundraising ambition of £25,000. It is abundant to be able to accord aback to the community, decidedly at Christmas, by acknowledging this abundant cause.”

To acquisition out added about ‘Sing Out for Marie Curie Cancer Care’ alarm 08700 340 040 or appointment www.mariecurie.org.uk/singout.

RIAS was accustomed in 1992 and is a specialist provider of allowance articles for the over 50s age group.

Part of Fortis (Insurance UK), RIAS has about a actor home, biking and motor allowance customers, employs over 1,100 humans above two UK sites, and is one of the UK’s fastest organically growing allowance intermediaries. RIAS negotiates with a console of insurers to defended competitive, amount for money products.

As a arch provider of award-winning claimed and bartering curve allowance solutions in the UK, Fortis has a acknowledged customer-centric strategy, founded on adjustment its activities to how barter ambition to buy insurance, accumulated with carrying top above products, bogus at costs bigger than bazaar norms.

Insuring in balance of 6.7 actor barter and alive with a ambit of partners, Fortis is recognised for carrying connected and high-quality chump experiences. In 2008, its non-life accumulation afore tax and absorption was £76 actor and its non-life GWP was £760 million.

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