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The award-winning team from a well-known Basingstoke company certainly lived up to their name as they raised a record-breaking five-figure sum for Ark Cancer Centre Charity.

The staff at Champion Group were delighted to donate £10,733.28 to Ark after taking part in various events and activities during 2018.

A charity golf day, fundraising bike ride, and cake bakes were just some of the ways that the members of the construction industry company pulled in the pounds over the 12 months.

Trane-sponsored Basingstoke Bison and Zizzi are teaming up for a second charity evening that will deliver a boost to Ark Cancer Centre Charity’s £5million fundraising appeal.

Long-time Bison sponsors Zizzi are opening their doors to Bison fans on Wednesday, January 23 for a special event which will see some of the Herd become waiters for the evening.

The latest  event follows the success of a first charity event of the 2018-19 season which resulted in more than £300 being raised for the good cause.

HELLO 2019 – and Ark Cancer Centre Charity is hoping that supporters will carry the spirit of out with the old, in with the new into this last year of the decade to help the £5million fundraising campaign reach another milestone.

Ark is urging local people to make a resolution to recycle unwanted clothes and shoes in January in one of the charity's many branded recycling banks that are dotted in and around the Basingstoke area.

2018 is the year that Ark Cancer Centre Charity passed the £2million milestone on the journey towards the £5m goal.

The public backing for Ark’s £5m appeal that will help to fund the much-needed NHS cancer treatment centre at Basingstoke hospital continues to be awesome and humbling – and it’s your great support that has enabled the charity to reach this significant fundraising staging post in 2018.

Plans to locate the new cancer treatment centre on the Basingstoke hospital site are moving forward, and 2019 will hopefully be a year of significant progress on this front.