BKS and the community
BKS endeavours to support its local community with particular
emphasis on the community in Penge and Catford. We endeavour
to forge links with those who reside in our community and to
support that community.
Each year BKS supports a charity chosen and voted for by the
colleagues in BKS. For the year 2007 BKS are supporting
St Christopher’s Hospice Sydenham which is local to our
Penge office.
St Christopher’s Hospice exists to provide skilled and
compassionate palliative care of the highest quality.
St Christopher’s Hospice was founded by Dame Cicely
Saunders in 1967 and her extraordinary contribution to alleviating
human suffering has resulted in the Hospice being considered
a centre of innovation and insight ever since.
The Hospice cares for around 2000 patients and their families
each year. The families are generally from the South East
London community. Most of the Hospice’s patients
have cancer, some motor neuron disease, severe heart failure,
or chest disease. St Christopher’s is a registered
charity and receives one third of its funding from the National
Health Service. St Christopher’s needs twelve million
pounds a year to maintain its present levels of service and the
balance is therefore raised from grants, legacies, the generosity
of its supporters, voluntary funded raising and its charity shops.
Charity support in 2008
This year BKS will be supporting the NSPCC.
More details to follow.
BKS Children’s Creative Competition
This year BKS Penge division commenced an annual competition
for the school children of St Anthony’s school in which
they were asked to submit pictures using the theme “what
makes us happy”.
All children who entered the competition received a prize
and the school received book tokens of £100.
There were two winners chosen from each year and each winning
child received a book token of £10 each.
It is hoped that this becomes an annual event supporting the
children in the local community who are thrilled to see their
pictures which hang in the reception area of the BKS Penge office.
Environmental Awareness
BKS Solicitors are aware of their environmental impact both
in terms of use of computers, paper and general office supplies.
As part of its ongoing commitment to improving client awareness
and social awareness BKS is reviewing all of its working practices
with environmental issues and health issues in mind.
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