Date announced for ICAP Charity Day 2019
Date announced for ICAP Charity Day 2019
10 December unveiled as the date for the 27th global ICAP Charity Day event
London, 10 April, 2019: ICAP, part of TP ICAP group, the world’s largest interdealer broker, is delighted to announce that this year’s ICAP Charity Day will take place on 10 December 2019. With £4.5 million raised in 2018, the company hopes that this year’s event will increase the total raised since the first Charity Day in 1993 to more than
£150 million.
Each year, ICAP Charity Day raises money for charities across the globe, with 100% of the revenues and commissions generated on one day each year donated to a variety of different causes. 18 ICAP offices were involved last year and 120 different charitable organisations benefited.
Last year, to support the charities on the day, Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall, attended alongside a host of celebrity ambassadors and patrons including actor Chiwetel Ejiofor CBE, model Suki Waterhouse and TV personality Keith Lemon in London. Meanwhile, high profile supporters including actors Michael Douglas and Forest Whitaker joined employees to raise money in New York.
ICAP Charity Day looks to support charitable causes focusing on social mobility, with an emphasis on education and training; assisting disadvantaged children and families; health and disability; and, environment and animal welfare.
Nicolas Breteau, Group Chief Executive Officer, TP ICAP, said: “Our company-wide CSR strategy ‘A Voice For All’ focuses on charitable initiatives that give people a break in life, whatever their background and wherever they are from. Within this, ICAP Charity Day is a very important date in our calendar and we are looking forward to supporting many more worthwhile causes in 2019.”
Charities can apply to be involved in this year’s ICAP Charity Day through the ICAP Charity Day website.
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Contacts:
William Baldwin-Charles, Group Media Relations Director, TP ICAP
020 7200 7124
William.Baldwin-Charles@tpicap.com
Laura Whybrow, Communications Manager, TP ICAP
020 7200 7568
laura.whybrow@tpicap.com
Background Information on Charity Day
ICAP Charity Day was founded in 1993 to grow its charitable giving programme through an innovative fundraising initiative that would make a significant difference to charities. Made possible through its unique position in the financial markets, the Company and its brokers committed to donating all revenues and commissions on one day a year, to a select group of charities around the world to guarantee that they would receive a sizeable contribution to fund much needed projects and initiatives. Now in its 27th year, ICAP, its customers and partners have collectively raised almost £145 million to date and supported more than 2,400 projects worldwide. www.icapcharityday.com
About ICAP
ICAP is a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services. ICAP matches buyers and sellers in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, commodities, FX, emerging markets and equity derivatives through voice and electronic networks, post trade risk mitigation and ICAP’s information services which provide data across all key asset classes and offer innovative solutions for real-time, end-of-day and historical products. ICAP is a TP ICAP company. For further information, please visit www.icap.com.