Employee fundraising success while working from home!

Bristol and Gloucester employees from IT consulting company CGI took on a virtual challenge to help stay active in the summer and raise some money for their local air ambulance.

Teams of up to five people from across the CGI business community and their clients competed to race virtually across Europe from CGI’s office in Bristol to Baku, Azerbaijan in ten weeks! Team members logged any fitness activity during this time online and which was then converted into miles as they raced the virtual journey of nearly 5,000km!

By the end of the challenge, the teams logged a combined total of 39,000 miles and raised over £4,000! Georgina Evans, one of the challenge organisers, said:

“CGI was delighted to be able to support this brilliant charity which provides such a valuable service to the local community, funded entirely by local people. We chose to support GWAAC because everyone loves the Air Ambulance and we wanted to help fill the fundraising gap caused by the COVID pandemic”.