Today, Reading based global natural gas company BG Group, witnessed one of the more unusual fundraising challenges when employees Ron Harink, Jonathan Grime, Mike Wilkes, Lewis Affleck and Brian Sowerby took on the "Baked Bean Challenge". The participants, who are raising money for the BG Energy Challenge 2007 - UK, were sponsored by colleagues to take the plunge in a bath full of beans, whilst onlookers paid an additional £1 each to top up the bath.
 Lying in the bath of baked beans, Ron Harink said:
"It was a great afternoon and a fun way to raise money for the BG Energy Challenge event charities CARE International and Sparks. The opportunity to pour a ladle of beans over us proved too good to be true for many of our colleagues. I don’t think I’ll eat baked beans for sometime to come, but it was all for a good cause. Thanks to the sponsorship received from this event, over £1,000 we have now exceeded BG Group’s fundraising target of £45,000."
The BG Energy Challenge 2007 – UK event will see teams from UK companies associated with the energy industry put their employees to the test to raise funds for CARE International and Sparks. Over 30 teams from across the sector will face two and half days of tough physical, mental and strategic challenges all in the aid of raising money for the chosen overseas development and children’s medical research charities.
Ron, Jonathan, Mike and Brian will be competing in one of nine BG Group Teams in the multi-faceted team building event which takes place in Stirling Scotland from 5-8 July.
Teams will be aiming to improve on the £205,000 raised at last year's BG Energy Challenge event. Further information can be found on the event website www.bg-energychallenge.co.uk
Notes to editors
BG Group
BG Group plc is a global natural gas business. Active on five continents in 25 countries, it operates four business segments - Exploration and Production, LNG, Transmission and Distribution and Power. BG Group seeks to support social and economic development in the communities where it does business by providing structured funding for community initiatives that match its skills transfer theme. For more information, visit www.bg-group.com
BG Group’s sponsorship portfolio is called Energy for life. The BG Energy Challenge series is one of four sponsorships that make up the Energy for life portfolio. For further information visit www.bg-group.com/sponsorship
About CARE International
CARE International is one of the top three overseas development agencies in the world. We fight poverty and injustice in 70 countries, helping over 48 million people each year to find routes out of poverty. We are also recognised for our rapid response to emergencies. When disasters strike, we make sure that aid gets to where it is needed most. For more information, visit www.careinternational.org.uk.
About Sparks
Sparks is unique. It isn’t a single cause charity. Sparks is the only charity to fund cutting edge research across the whole spectrum of paediatric medicine. Working with doctors and scientists at leading universities and teaching hospitals across the UK, Sparks research work encompasses childhood cancers, childhood arthritis, meningitis, spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, the risks associated with premature birth and many other conditions affecting babies and children in the early years of life. Sparks has already committed over £13 million to fund more than 165 research projects with the aim of giving more children the best of all starts in life…a healthy one. For more information, visit www.sparks.org.uk
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