Allsop managing partner on charity work
Scott Tyler, Allsop managing partner, says the firm is looking to raise more than £15,000 for a charity working to empower women and girls through its focus on sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene in India. At the beginning of the year, Allsop launched a company-wide initiative to raise funds The Cycle, which also provides menstrual education.
The organisation has worked with communities in need for more than 25 years and is the consultancy's charity in focus this year, as it rekindles a link it established with the organisation in 2008. More than 15 years later, two Allsop employees, Tilda Power-Shock, the digital creator and city marketing coordinator, and Evie Robertson, senior associate, are in India visiting communities being supported by The Cycle. They follow in the footsteps of Tyler and Allsop equity partner Jeremy Hodgson, who flew over in 2010.
Tyler says the employees will feedback to the team when they return from their visit with the home it motivates them to raise their target amount. He told CoStar News: "We felt that sending the women there [will help them] to understand a little bit more the slant and direction that the charity has taken over the last 15 years since myself and Jeremy were there. It's a good thing to do to feedback and we can learn a little bit more from what is going on on the ground today."
You can visit Allsop's fundraising page here.
Knight Frank names £200 million office makeover lead
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CBRE appoints managing director for UK sectors
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Rapleys hires Knight Frank stalwart
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Fisher German lifts Kerton into partner role
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Leading hospitality adviser launches business
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