Murrays Estate Agents sponsors The Nelson Trust and help raise over £12,000

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Peter Davison

Murrays Estate Agents has raised £12,000 for the Nelson Trust

Murrays Estate Agents has raised over £12,000 for Gloucestershire charity The Nelson Trust.

The first event on 10th June featured a piano recital by Clare Hammond at Angeston Grange. The event raised £8,227.

A week later, James Murray, trustee of The Nelson Trust as well as Director of Murrays, and Sam Robertson undertook the David Goggins 4x4x48 challenge, which saw them run 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours, through day and night.

The pair raised £3,776, which will go towards helping to improve the lives of The Nelson Trust’s clients across the South West of England and Wales.

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Dame Janet Trotter, Chair of Trustees for The Nelson Trust, said both events represent a ‘fantastic effort’ in aid of the charity and that the trust is ‘grateful for every penny raised to help support people in recovery.’

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.