MORE than 50 members of Yorkshire's corporate community have raised more than £5,000 for Age UK after completing yesterday's Abbey Dash.
The team, organised by Garry Wilson and Darren Forshaw of turnaround firm Endless, featured runners from RBS, Lloyds, Yorkshire Bank, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, NM Rothschild, Grant Thornton, Walker Morris, Addleshaw Goddard, Hammonds, Gordons, Zolfo Cooper, Centric Commercial Finance, Northstar Ventures, and TheBusinessDesk.com.
The team has raised nearly £6,000 for the race charity Age UK.
As well as 10 runners from Endless, members of the team included Martin Jenkins (Deloitte), Christian Mayo (KPMG), Ian Marwood (Grant Thornton), Dave Harris (RBS), Andrew Foster (Lloyds), Stephen Moore (Rothschild), Jonathan Jones (Hammonds) and Philip Mudd (Walker Morris).
Graham Pearce of KPMG was the fastest in the team, completing the race in 33 minutes.
Garry Wilson, of Endless, said: "When we first proposed getting a team together from across the Leeds professional community, we were probably hoping for 20 at best.
"To get more than 50 was a fantastic surprise and in the end it was a 'Who's Who', with some unexpected but very welcome and well-known local businessmen and women."
Fellow Endless partner Darren Forshaw said: "I think this shows there is something behind the 'health is the new wealth" quip and there certainly seemed to be a few mid-life crises going on out there as well!"
Completing the run for the team were former professional footballer Danny Mills, who completed the Brighton marathon in a wheelchair earlier this year, and Andy McMenemy, who will be looking to break the world record for consecutive marathons next year, with 66 marathons in 66 days, in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund (visit www.challenge66.org for further details).
The team ran in t-shirts emblazoned with the logo for a new charity, the Turnaround Foundation, which has been established by the partners at Endless and will be formally launched in the new year.