Airline raises £750k for charity

Tuesday, 3 October 2017 08:12

By Jason Roberts @ChpsChsGrvy

An airline serving the Isle of Man has reached a fundraising milestone for a cancer charity.

Flybe has announced that since becoming a charity partner of Cancer Research UK in 2008, passengers and staff have raised a whooping £750,000 for the organisation.

Over the past nine years, staff fundraising activities ranging from marathons to bake-offs and on-board collections have raised a staggering three quarters of a million pounds.

Ed Aspel, the charity's executive director of fundraising says they are "extremely grateful for Flybe's incredible support."

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