{"id":1521,"date":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/zf-teams-charity-raise-funds-cancer-research\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:38:25","slug":"zf-teams-charity-raise-funds-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/zf-teams-charity-raise-funds-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"ZF teams up with charity to raise funds for Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Peterlee technology company is teaming up with Cancer Research UK to promote the charity\u2019s Race for Life events.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13032 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/photo-1496065187959-7f07b8353c55-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"photo-1496065187959-7f07b8353c55\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>ZF, which produces specialist safety camera equipment and employs around 1,000 people at the North West Industrial Estate in\u00a0Peterlee, set up this\u00a0partnership afterhaving lost a member of its workforce to cancer recently. Many others within the company have also lost loved ones to cancer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscription-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lisa Hudson, human recourse manager at ZF, said: \u201cCancer is something that unfortunately is close to many of us and we as a company have lost too many members of staff to the awful illness.\u00a0We\u2019ve also got many employees whose husbands, wives, brothers, sisters or friends have either passed away or are fighting the illness, and that\u2019s something we want to change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOur partnership with Cancer Research UK is to support their Race for Life events by encouraging people to take part, either as individuals or groups.\u00a0We already have some staff who have participated in the past, with our support, and hopefully through our promotion of the fundraising events we can put forward even more employees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAs a company we value the help we give to our staff and their families and if we can do our bit to support a very worthwhile charity which is helping to save lives, that can only be a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The next Cancer Research UK Race for Life 5K is at\u00a0Wearside&#8217;s Herrington Park on Sunday 2nd June and Vikki Lambert, Cancer Research UK\u2019s area events manager, said: \u201cWe are delighted to have the support of a company like ZF.\u00a0Clearly there are so many of their staff who have been affected by cancer, either directly or because a friend or family member has had the disease. 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