Sponsorship

The firm is actively involved in the local community and it is through sponsorship that we can make a real difference.

Since August 2007 we have been working closely with Kent Wildlife Trust.

Kent Wildlife Trust is able to provide a wide range of information and advice on wildlife issues. As well as managing more than fifty nature reserves, Kent Wildlife Trust works throughout Kent - including the Medway Unitary Authority area - for wildlife and for people. They aim to maintain and restore Kent's rich wildlife heritage, and to bring people and wildlife closer together. This includes:

• = Working with schools, community groups and young people
• = Working in partnership with other agencies
• = Campaigning for marine wildlife
• = Taking the lead on action for important wildlife habitats
• = Identifying Kent's most important wildlife areas

Kent Wildlife Trust also works extensively with planners, developers and decision-makers to ensure development avoids damage to wildlife and wherever possible benefits the natural environment. The Trust assesses 200 planning applications every year, from small applications affecting protected species up to major developments such as the planned 7,250 homes at Eastern Quarry, Dartford. They influence planning policy by commenting on Local Development Frameworks, Structure Plans and Regional planning documents.

In 2007, staff raised £7241.50 after walking 305 miles from Bough Beech Nature Reserve, making charity history in being the first ever sponsored walk from the reserve. The ramble along two scenic routes from and around the reserve, near Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, involved 25 people. Michael Sugden, Senior Partner, who took part in the walk said: 'The response we have had from clients and contacts of the firm, colleagues, friends and families of the walkers and also a charitable trust (Ann Brown Charitable Trust) has been amazing.  The sponsorship money raised will help Kent Wildlife Trust to continue its excellent work.'

Our efforts in previous years have included:

In 2006 staff undertook a sponsored walk along the 27,5 mile Tunbridge Wells Circular Walk (which raised £10,000 for Demelza House Children's Hospice).

In 2005 staff walked the distance from Lands End to John O'Groats (s distance of 874 miles) at Bewl Water in Kent (which raised £12,000 for Cerebral Palsy Care Learning Centre for Disabled Children based in Rochester and the Micro & Anophthalmic Children Society (MACS)).

In 2004 staff from Thomson Snell & Passmore swum the equivalent distance of the English Channel (which raised just over £20,000 for Headway Tunbridge Wells and District and The National Child Brain Injury Trust (CBIT)).