Insurance Institute of Norwich’s story
Due to the success of our 2020 fundraising event, where the IIN Council raised over £800 for the charity Mind, the IIN Council wanted to do challenge ourselves again, and raise funds for the well-deserved Insurance Charities.
The Insurance Charities are the only charity in the UK and Irish insurance industry, providing support to current and former insurance employees and their dependents since 1902. In 2020/21, £912,000 [1] was given including assisting with day-to-day hardship, educational grants, and health management.
This year’s council theme is ‘wellbeing’ and with exercise being such an important part of our lives, now more than ever during the pandemic, we wanted to do something that would benefit not only for our physical health but our mental health too. We’re therefore proposing to collectively exercise 500 miles during the month of January, and we’d like to invite our members, their friends and family to join us.
Despite the title of ‘Winter is Running’, you can exercise any way you wish (it could be one exercise or a mixture) for example, running, walking, cycling, paddle boarding or swimming or any other exercise you can think of!
Please encourage your friends, family and colleagues to donate via fundraising page on Wonderful.org.
Happy Exercising!
We’ll be keeping you all updated with blog posts from some of our council members taking part throughout the month. We would love to hear from IIN members with their updates on the challenge too! We look forward to seeing you take part and help raise money for such a good cause.
The Insurance Institute of Norwich Council
[1] Source: https://www.theinsurancecharities.org.uk/help-and-support/how-we-help/
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