Community news
Finity helps insurance industry earn needy $120,000
Story and picture from John Heath’s InsuranceNewsAustralia.com issue of 11 November 2011 Finity joined with other members of the insurance and finance services sectors to Beat the Bosses and earn the CREATE Foundation $120,000 for needy children and young people in out-of-home care – foster, residential or kinship care. On Wednesday 9 November 2011 hundreds of supporters [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2011, Filed under Community news
2011 Oxfam Trailwalker
Stephen provides us with an insider’s view of how this particularly successful fundraiser went (the photographs have been carefully culled to ensure suitability for public display): With zero hours of sleep, walking through muddy trails, navigating through heavy fog in the dark, “Team High Maintenance” consisting of four actuaries - Stephen Lau and Lynn Bui from [...]
Posted: September 2nd, 2011, Filed under Community news
Red drinks for the Red Cross
Apart from raising money by (some of us) exhausting ourselves at energetic sporting events, Finity people also take the opportunity to turn the Australian sport of drinking to positive use in fund raising, and hopefully having a bit of fun at the same time. Following previous efforts with green drinks and pink drinks, on Friday [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2011, Filed under Community news
2011 Sydney City 2 Surf
Our intrepid reporter (and runner) Hecy filed this report on Finity’s participation in the 2011 Sydney City 2 Surf (photo courtesy marathon-phots.com): On Sunday morning, Steph, Simon, Fiona and I got up early, put our racing bibs on and headed into the city with 68,897 other people for the biggest fun run in the world. [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2011, Filed under Community news
Finity’s Biggest Morning Tea
We cannot let the opportunity of the preparation and consumption of food for a good cause pass us by. So Finity people pulled out their KitchenAids and Cuisinarts to prepare a vast array of baked products as part of Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea to raise funds for the Cancer Council on May 23. Spurred on by the prospect of [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2011, Filed under Community news
Green Drinks and FINFOTO
In November the Giving Back Committee (GBC) held its annual drinks event. Following on from the success of “Pink Drinks” (a fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Foundation) the GBC, in a year of debate about climate change and the environment, held “Green Drinks” raising money for Trees For Life. In December we hosted FINFOTO. This event showcased the works of Finity’s 2010 photography class coached by Colin Brigstock and attended by Steve Curley, Mel Hall, Mel Haymet and David Minty.
Posted: January 5th, 2011, Filed under Community news
Finity’s Giving Back Program 2009
Throughout the year Finity Consulting sponsors a number of different charity events as part of its Giving Back Program. On Saturday the 26th September Finity sponsored the Ride for a Reason Charity Challenge, a 160km bicycle ride from Sydney to Bowral organised by the Sydney Cycling Club.
Posted: December 11th, 2009, Filed under Community news
Finity’s Charity Poker Challenge
Finity held its third Charity Poker Challenge on the 3rd September 2009 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney.
Posted: September 23rd, 2009, Filed under Community news
Finity Charity Poker Night 2008
We are delighted to announce the Second Finity Charity Poker Challenge to be held on Thursday 14 August 2008.
Posted: July 16th, 2008, Filed under Community news
LEUKAEMIA FOUNDATION – World’s Greatest Shave
Thanks to Adam Payne, Michael McLean and Colin Brigstock for their enthusiastic participation in the “World’s Greatest Shave” Finity staff and friends in client firms contributed $20,000 to this very worthwhile cause.
Posted: April 21st, 2008, Filed under Community news
