We are ecstatic to announce our partnership with MOORE Insight, a growing SME based in the South Yorkshire who is committed to supporting young people across the nation.
Through its inspiring recruitment drive employing high-skilled graduates throughout the RISE scheme, (particularly through a difficult time in terms of young people’s employment opportunities), MOORE Insight’s values firmly align with Endeavour’s in terms of empowering and supporting the personal development of disadvantaged young people.
MOORE Insight is a management consultancy firm based at St James House, Sheffield. They pride themselves on ‘making systems work’ for organisations across the public, private and third sectors.
They have an extensive portfolio in supporting organisations to understand the core business systems that are 'fit' for their client organisations' size and complexity.
MOORE Insight’s values firmly align with Endeavour’s in terms of empowering and supporting the personal development of disadvantaged young people. An example of this is the recruitment drive employing high-skilled graduates throughout the RISE scheme, (particularly through a difficult time in terms of young people’s employment opportunities).
The dedicated team at Endeavour delivers a variety of both traditional and more specialised educational subjects, from English and Maths to mental health and career planning support. We also specialise in corporate away days, demonstrating that many of the team-building practices are beneficial for people of all ages and particularly in companies where team morale is crucial.
Our very own Duncan Pearse, CEO of Endeavour also commented on our exciting new partnership with MOORE Insight:
"At Endeavour, we hugely appeciate the effort that MOORE Insight have put into this partnership with us and we are so pleased that they have made such a generous commitment to support our charity.
Duncan Pearse, CEO of Endeavour
Given the challenges charities currently face, corporate support such as this is invaluable in enabling us to continue to deliver valuable services to young people."
In selecting Endeavour as their partner of the year, MOORE Insight is committed to a fundraising target and will offer volunteers to the charity, as well as provide business support for the charity where required:
"When we were introduced to the team at Endeavour, we saw an extremely hard-working charity doing some great things within the local community. We immediately felt that their mission aligned very strongly with our own ambition as a growing company, to support young people.
Kate Hill, Head of Business Development & Marketing and Social Value Coordinator at MOORE Insight
As a learning and development focused organisation, we know how important it is for young people to get the support they need in order to reach their potential.
We've worked with so many young people over our 30 year history and felt that this year, we really waned to give back to and support young people even more within our local communities.
We really want to encourage more businesses across the region to get involved in supporting the charity and others working closely with Endeavour."
Endeavour and a group of staff at HSBC HQ have built up quite a personal relationship over the last 8 years raising significant amounts of money for Endeavour and having fun along the way.
The partnership began accidentally in 2012 when a team of "Geeks" were looking to attempt the Three Yorkshire Peaks and raise money for a local charity who would also provide logistical support to the challenge. In stepped Endeavour! The relationship has morphed over the subsequent years with a variety of the challenges involving wheels and feet. Many of the original team no longer work for HSBC but they keep coming back.
Challenges began with the 3 Yorkshire Peaks in 2012. The following year we attempted the 3 National Peaks in 24 hours over the hottest weekend of the millennium. Then we graduated to two wheels with an attack on the Way of the Roses, 170 miles of beautiful cycling from (as the name suggests) Lancashire to Yorkshire - specifically Morecambe to Bridlington taking in the minster towns of Ripon and York. In 2015 we went big with the London to Paris Cycle over 3 days starting at HSBC flagship offices in Canary Wharfe and ending at the HSBC France HQ at La Défense in the Paris business area. This was a challenge for riders and support staff alike, a lot was learnt that would benefit future activities and the team raised a significant amount of money for Endeavour. There followed further extended cycle challenges across Ireland (2016) - possibly only 40 minutes of riding were not troubled by torrential rain!; Wales Hollyhead to Cardiff (2017) and Scotland (2018) where the weather gods truly smiled on the adventure with over 300 miles of riding over 3 days in beautiful sunshine and not a midge in site. These main events were interspersed with some more gentle events like sections of the Lyke Wake Walk and a return to the 3 Yorkshire Peaks in 2017 for a mix of new and old aimed at keeping the core team together and interested.
We have had stunning scenery, developed great team spirit which benefits everyone in the office, been provided some remarkable food by "Chef Pat" and raised money for a great local charity.
Gerry Hounsell
In 2019 we returned to the roots of the "Geeks on Peaks" challenges offering 3 smaller duration challenges which catered to a range of tastes and aimed to be inclusive with a long distance walk and two one day cycle challenges.
2020 saw a multiactivity challenge over 3 days planned with a canoe, cycle, hill climb (Ben Nevis) and an open water swim to truly test and inspire participants. This will now take place in July 2021. Find out more about this event by clicking here.
Endeavour provides the logistics, organisation and technical support and the participants fundraise for Endeavour with key staff at HSBC rallying support and circulating information. The style of challenge is decided by consensus.
All the events culminate several weeks later with a cheque presentation and social.
Endeavour are enthusiastic and professional about their work with young people. This translates in to the events they have organised for "the Geeks". These are a lot of fun even if very challenging at times but I also like the sense of contributing to something bigger when I hear about the benefits the money we raise brings to the local community.
Dave Mckenzie
So - we have experience of organising and supporting a wide variety of events for teams of colleagues. Training together for events and repeat participation have developed strong friendships across the group that extend to Endeavour staff.
Partnerships like this one are hugely beneficial to the beneficiaries that Endeavour aims to support as it allows us to develop what we offer for example contributing towards our teaching kitchen or our outdoor teaching space or enabling us to jump the hurdles required to become a registered exam centre or providing additional tutoring to enable youngsters to have the best possible chance when they sit their GCSE exams.
If you're interesting in working with us to organise an event like this for you and your colleagues or friends, get in touch!
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