Infinigate Cloud aiming to raise £20,000 for Solent Mind with Spinnaker Tower abseil

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Giles Gwinnett

Autumn sunset light on the Portsmouth waterfront, Hampshire, UK - picture contributed

Fareham-based cloud solutions firm Infinigate Cloud is aiming to raised £20,000 for local charity Solent Mind this Saturday (September 2) via an abseil down the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth.

Everyone is invited to the event at the 170-metre landmark in the city, which is running between 9am and 6pm.

"Mental health and wellbeing are a top priority at Infinigate Cloud and that’s why our employees collectively chose to partner with Solent Mind as our corporate charity," said Michael Frisby, senior vice-president of cloud services at the Infinigate Group.

"We’d like to invite everyone to come along to support our adventurous abseiling team. It’s going to be a fantastic day and I will be personally joining a team of 40 abseilers comprised of Infinigate Cloud employees, customers and partners to descend the magnificent Spinnaker Tower."

Joanne Silsbury, corporate liaison officer at Solent Mind, added: "I’m incredibly pleased that Solent Mind have been chosen as Infinigate Cloud’s corporate charity this year.

"I’m so impressed with their commitment to raising £20,000 that I’ve decided to join the staff and their partners in abseiling down the Spinnaker Tower. I haven’t done a fundraising challenge myself for four years so I’m really looking forward to taking part!"

Last year, Solent Mind helped 55,000 people experiencing poor mental health, equating to 1 in 28 of the local population.

Infinigate Cloud is an expert business unit within the Infinigate Group, the cybersecurity and networking group.

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Giles Gwinnett

Giles Gwinnett is a writer at The Business Magazine. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years and covered a vast array of topics at a range of media settings - in print and online. After his NCTJ newspaper training, he became a reporter in Hampshire before moving to a news agency in Gloucestershire. In recent years, he has been covering the financial markets along with company news for an investor-focused web portal. His many interests include politics, energy and the environment. He lives in Dorset.