Heroes Are Aiming Higher For Charity Bid
August 2013Worcestershire commercial property consultancy GJS Dillon LLP and The JPR Group of Companies have raised more than £4,000 for new armed forces charity Hire A Hero.
Philip Jones, partner in GJS Dillon, and Ravi Sinha, CEO of The JPR Group of Companies, jointly hosted a garden party in Claines, Worcester, for the city’s business and civic community in aid of the charity which aims to support army, navy and air force leavers – past, present and future – settle into civilian life.
Also attending were members of the armed forces including Major General Brendan McGuinness CBE and Gerry Hill MBE, Chief Executive Officer of the Charity and his assistant, Mike Peckham.
At the garden party, Hire A Hero unveiled its sponsored vehicles, donated by Lloyds Bank, which will be used for the charity’s first major fundraising expedition, journeying overland to, and then climbing, Mount Elbrus in the Russian Caucasus, considered to be the highest mountain in Europe and one of the world’s Seven Summits, the highest mountains on each of the seven continents.
With offices in Worcester and Bromsgrove, GJS Dillon LLP is a firm of Chartered Surveyors which offers a comprehensive commercial property service, and unrivalled geographical coverage, throughout Worcestershire and along the M5 and A38 corridors.
JPR Group of Companies is predominantly an investment company set up by ex-investment banker Ravi R Sinha, with core interests in Healthcare Centres, Civil Engineering and Property Development, the latter which it does via its subsidiary company Caspian Asset Management.
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