HR director raises £40,000 for local charity

HR inspires: Paul Kennedy, HR Director of New Balance inspired a team to walk 140 miles with him to raise £40,000 for Cumbria flood victims.

Amid scenes of great euphoria and the popping of champagne corks, as the finishing tape was broken, the ‘Pound for Cumbria’ fundraising walk, which started from Warrington, New Balance’s European HQ in Cheshire, on Monday 22nd of February, finally finished, appropriately enough, at Dovenby Hall, the home of the Cumbria Community Foundation just outside Cockermouth on the afternoon of Friday 26th February, 140 grueling miles later.

The eight tired but jubilant walkers were greeted and congratulated at a reception given at Dovenby Hall attended by Tony Cunningham MP for Workington, Malcolm Wilson CEO of M-Sport, Jonathan Ram, New Balance’s Managing Director, John Grainger, Managing Director of Invest in Cumbria, and Councillor John Binky Armstrong, Mayor of Allerdale.