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Smiles - Paul Card (fourth left) presents
Tees Business line-up Team Resolution
with their quiz-winner prizes.
DO THE MATHS
Finance recruiters are the charity kings
T
he numbers all added up for a Tees
firm that specialises in helping
businesses find high-quality finance
and accountancy staff when Paul Card
Recruitment helped raise nearly £4,000 for
local worthy causes.
Incredibly, the Wynyard-based recruitment
business has now raised £9,000 over the
past three years by organising an annual
general knowledge quiz to raise funds for
charity Teesside Philanthropic Foundation.
Paul Card Recruitment’s clients range
from small owner-managed companies to
large corporates including Venator, Utility
Alliance, Jacksons Law Firm and Sage.
Despite boasting an impressive list of
clients across the North East and beyond,
Paul insists the firm is Teesside through-
and-through – and is incredibly proud to
support their own communities.
“We’re a proud Teesside-based company
with staff who all live locally,” he said. “Our
heart is in Teesside, and I have an ongoing
commitment to give a percentage of our
profits to local worthy causes.
“For me, none come more worthy than
the Philanthropic Foundation, which does
such incredible work on Teesside.
“Organising the quiz allows us to raise
some much-needed funds for the charity
to share among the most vulnerable and
disadvantaged Teessiders. We’re proud to
do that and thrilled to have raised £9,000
since 2017. But, for me, it’s about more than
just writing a cheque.
“It gives us an opportunity to help shine a
light on their fantastic work. The foundation
really strikes a chord with us as the money
they raise stays right here on Teesside and
reaches out to smaller community groups
that would otherwise be unable to access
funds such as this.”
Paul recalled attending a Philanthropic
Foundation event where a local head
teacher spoke of the poverty suffered by
some of the families attending her school.
“What resonated with me was the head
teacher talking about parents in poverty and
how the foundation had helped the school
to purchase beds for the children. The
kids were now able to sleep at night and
their academic achievements and general
wellbeing had dramatically improved. It’s
frightening to think there are such levels of
social deprivation on our doorstep here on
Teesside.”
Giving back -
Paul Card.
Among the local businesses represented
at the charity quiz at the Riverside Stadium
were Tees Business, Middlesbrough FC,
Endeavour Partnership, RMB Automotive,
Erimus Insurance Brokers, Baldwins,
Vitality Dental, Mandale, Square One
Law, Henderson Insurance Brokers,
Anderson Barrowcliff, Durata UK, Careys
Personal Credit and Paul Card Recruitment
themselves. The organisers were grateful for
match-funding from Barclays Middlesbrough.
Auction donors included Racz Group,
Wynyard Hall, University of Sunderland,
Middlesbrough FC and Baird Group, while
raffle prizes were donated by Yarm Studio,
Racz Group, ARC Arts Centre, The Copper
House, Sanction Gin, Fiona Erskine, Wynyard
Golf Club, Sweet William Floral Design and
Flowerhouse.
Specialists in Accountancy & Finance
appointments in Teesside and beyond
“Paul Card Recruitment are proactive, efficient and a pleasure to work with. I highly
recommend their services,” - Jane Armitage, Managing Partner, Jacksons Law Firm
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