Recherche

Staff ran an indoor continental market sale, serving espresso coffee and croissants, with stalls selling CDs, DVDs and other unwanted gifts that people had donated.

Staff have also been collecting old mobile phones, which can be recycling through a scheme run by Marie Curie Cancer Care. We have so far reached over £60 from only 20 handsets.

Taking advantage of the international presence and business travel of the company Thales employees are also continually contributing to the Marie Curie Cancer Care scheme, turning unwanted foreign change into currency. The money raised will help provide more care for patients with cancer.

Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of Thales UK's corporate charities. The charity provides Marie Curie Nurses who care for terminally ill people in their own homes, surrounded by the people they love the most.

Following Thales UK's success last year in raising £100,000, Thales has set itself an even more ambitious target of raising £130,000 for this worthy cause, and staff in each of the 50-plus offices will all run different events in order to contribute.

Every £20 raised will help Marie Curie Cancer Care fund one hour of nursing care in the home, allowing patients to be with their families during their last days.

"Marie Curie Cancer Care is an outstanding charity and we're proud to be supporting them. Their dedication to and care of terminally ill patients are second to none," says John Howe, Vice Chairman of Thales UK.

If you have unwanted mobile phone handsets or old foreign coins please drop them in to our office at 2 Dashwood Lang Road, The Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, KT15 2NX.

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About Thales and Thales UK
Thales is a leading international electronics and systems group, addressing defence, aerospace and security markets worldwide. Thales' leading-edge technology is supported by 22,000 R&D engineers who offer a capability unmatched in Europe to develop and deploy field-proven mission-critical information systems. To this end, the group's civil and military businesses develop in parallel and share a common base of technologies to serve a single objective: the security of people, property and nations. The group builds its growth on its unique multi-domestic strategy based on trusted partnerships with national customers and market players, while leveraging its global expertise to support local technology and industrial development. Thales employs 68,000 people in 50 countries with 2007 revenues in excess of £8.3 bn.

Thales UK employs 9,000 staff based at more than 50 locations. In 2007 Thales UK's revenues were over £1.2 bn.

Press contact:
Thales UK
Kathryn Bell
Mob: +44 7813 903274
Email: kathryn.bell@thalesgroup.com

www.thalesgroup.com/uk