Cooper Parry Corporate Challenge creates massive business appeal 
Added : 15th September 2008
The 2008 CPCC Team Winners, Browne Jacobson receive their trophy after breaking the course record.
Eighty teams took part in this year’s corporate relay event organised by regional business advisers, Cooper Parry.
The overall winners of the 2008 event were Browne Jacobson.
They completed the challenge in a record time of 1hr 22 minutes.
Blueprint Interiors were awarded the prize for raising the most money for charity, an outstanding £2155.
Now in its sixth year, the Cooper Parry Corporate Challenge has become a firm fixture in the business calendar, where the region’s fittest and most determined business colleagues test their mettle against other teams all in the name of fun and charity.
Since it was established as a firm favorite in 2002, the Cooper Parry Corporate Challenge has donated over £160,000 to charity and this year alone has raised around £40,000.
The idea was conceived by veteran champion runner David Oxland, former partner at Cooper Parry and the organisers of the marathon, Sweatshop. Competitors follow the same course as the Experian Robin Hood Half Marathon, but in relay format. Each relay participant runs around 2.5 miles before handing over a timing ‘Baton’.
Cooper Parry’s Chairman Colin Shaw said: ‘The Corporate Challenge is a great opportunity for local businesses to give back to the community we live and work in. It’s a great achievement to have raised over £160,000 for charities in the last six years and is simply down to all the teams who tirelessly raise the much needed funds.’
Abbie Bartholomew Cooper Parry Corporate Challenge race organiser said, “Over six hundred people have taken part in the event and joined in the fun with Cooper Parry. In the first year there were twenty teams so it is great to see how the event has grown in popularity.”
The beneficiaries of the money raised include the Alzheimer’s Society, CLIC Sargent, the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund (FSNBF) and Headway, the brain injury association.
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