Industry charity CASCAID raises more than £500,000 in two months

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CASCAID, the industry-wide initiative to raise £1m for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) by June 2019 has already raised more than £500,000 for the charity, just over two months since launch.

In its end-of-month update for August, the charity revealed it has already broken through the half a million mark in its goal to raise £1m for GOSH. A large proportion of the funds raised so far has come from the Gala Dinner for GOSH, which kicked off this year's campaign in June, but there have also been many challenges that have already been completed and helped boost this figure. Professional Adviser's sister title Investment Week raised more than £12,000 through its Great British Quiz event, while BlackRock's Jeremy Roberts and a team of 30 of his colleagues raised £23,000 followi...

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