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Accountants’ Race Day Boost For Lord Mayor’s Charities

The four charities of the Lord Mayor of York are gaining a special boost this month after a local business stepped into help.

The civic charities selected by York’s first Green Party Lord Mayor, Dave Taylor, are to benefit from a special bucket collection at York Racecourse’s last race meeting of the year this Friday (Oct 7).

North Yorkshire accountants and business advisers, JWPCreers, has provided sponsorship to enable a race day bucket collection to be held by the Lord Mayor for his four charities, York Civic Trust, of which the Lord Mayor is a life member; environmental charity St Nicks and York LGBT Forum and York Racial Equality Network which both work to strengthen diversity and support projects to reduce bullying and hate crime in the city.

The race will be called JWPCreers supporting Lord Mayor’s Charities EBF Stallions Maiden Stakes, and JWPCreers is also taking five staff and 15 guests including the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress.

JWPCreers chairman and corporate finance partner, Tony Farmer, a horse racing enthusiast, and the Lord Mayor will jointly present the prizes to the race winners.

Tony Farmer, says: “As a firm which can trace its roots in York back to the early years of the 20th century, we have had a long and beneficial relationship with the city and we were pleased to help the Lord Mayor by providing sponsorship to enable him to hold a bucket collection, which can raise a significant sum, as it is an ideal way to raise the profile of the Lord Mayor’s charities and contribute to the local community at a grassroots level.”

Funds are also being raised for the Lord Mayor’s four charities with his own initiatives including the Lord Mayor’s Curry Club, golf tournaments at Fulford and Pike Hills and an art exhibition and auction later this autumn.

Dave Taylor, who represents Fishergate Ward and has been a councillor since 2007, says: “An initiative as elaborate – and beneficial – as a sponsor’s bucket collection at York Races would not usually be within the financial scope of the Lord Mayor’s charities. I’m hugely grateful to JWPCreers for agreeing to provide the sponsorship necessary to allow me to hold this bucket collection and I am sure that those who eventually benefit from the funds raised will feel the same way.

“It is a wonderful gesture and very civic minded of a firm which already contributes significantly to commercial life in North Yorkshire.”

JWP Creers, which has offices at Heslington, York and Park Street, Selby, has seven partners and 80 staff and operates throughout the UK with most of its clients in the north. The current firm was created in 2006 with a merger between Selby-based JW Pickles, which was founded in Leeds in 1922, and Creers which was established in Coppergate, York, in 1908.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Mike Clarke .