ES Life
At Edward Symmons we believe work should be rewarding and fun. We encourage our staff to participate in all activities, whatever their level, and believe this helps to make Edward Symmons a great place to work. We support our people in all types of events, industry or otherwise. Below are a just a few of the things we have been up to recently - if this is the work environment for you why not take a look at our Current Jobs.
Plymouth Professionals Charity 6-aside
The event, held at Plymstock Cricket Club, was once again a huge success with many local professional firms competing including Lloyds, Bond Pearce, Wolferstans Solicitors, Rileys Accountants, Nash and Co Solicitors and Clydesdale Bank. Unfortunately Team Symmons/Traynor were beaten by Bond Pearce for the first time in the history of the competition. Clydesdale progressed to the final to take on Wolferstans Solicitors.
Wolferstans Solicitors were eventually the overall winners of the competition, which through some fantastic donations raised £650 for a local charity to be selected by the winning side.
The picture shows the winning team.
Property Triathlon
2200 competitors took part in the King Sturge Property Triathlon 2010 on Friday 9th July. On a very hot day a total of £120,000 was raised for two charities, The Children's Trust and Orchid.
Chridren's Trust: http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/
Orchid: http://www.orchid-cancer.org.uk/Home
ES’s intrepid team consisted of James Goymour (VS), James Couse (Bankside), Richard Maden (Bankside) and Harry Douglass (H&L).
James Goymour’s impressive time was 1:07:09 (14th overall); James Couse (the oldest by circa 20 years !) 1:24:22 (2 mins faster than previous year and 431 overall); Harry Douglas 1:27:43 and Richard Maden 1:36:11 (it was the first time for both Harry and Richard!)
2010 Yorkshire & Humberside RICS 5-a-Side Football Tournament
In blistering temperatures which sapped the doubtful fitness levels of the squad, the Leeds Five-a-Side team took part in the RICS annual tournament after an absence of three years.
The squad took the field and amazed themselves by easily winning the first of their four group games 3 - 1.
Unfortunately successive 3 – 0 defeats to NPS, RBS and the eventual tournament winners Eddisons followed!
BUPA Great Manchester 10km Run
Both Avril Aldam (Manchester) and Paul Parker (Liverpool) successfully completed the BUPA Great Manchester 10km Run on the 16th May.
Avril finished in one hour fifty seven seconds with an overall position of 16,214 out of 36,000. She raised a total of £260 for Cancer Research and £205 for the British Heart Foundation.
Paul finished with a personal best time of fifty four minutes and fifty one seconds. His overall position was 10,150. He has raised a total of £240 for Action for Children.
Cancer Research
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/
British Heart Foundation
http://www.bhf.org.uk/
Action for Children
http://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/
Shirt of Hurt!
Radio presenter Danny Baker attempted to get fans to wear the shirts of their fiercest rivals for Sport Relief in a novel twist on the usual money-raising activities.
Chris Wakeman in the Bristol office is an ardent Bristol City supporter, having a pathological hatred of all things Bristol Rovers.
On Friday 19 March Chris spent the whole day in a Bristol Rovers home shirt from the 2008/09 season in order to raise money for Sport Relief.
Chris raised £115 in sponsorship for Sport Relief. The dreaded shirt was then put on ebay and sold for another £20, so a grand total of £135 was raised.