Hitting the bullseye: Chelsea Financial Services raises £22k for CASCAID

Cascaid challenge

Tom Eckett
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Chelsea Financial Services held a 24-hour dart-a-thon last month as part of industry-wide charity initiative CASCAID, which is aiming to raise £1m for Cancer Research UK.

Teams from across the industry lined up to challenge Darius McDermott, managing director of Chelsea Financial Services, and his team. So far, the event has raised a total of £22,425. McDermott was joined by Sam Holder, Felix Wintle, Andy Aitken, Stuart McDermott and Chris Salih, who played darts for 24 hours from 1pm on 21 April through to the next day. CASCAID initiative raises £300,000 in just three months On the night, 34 bullseyes were recorded as well as two 180s, and the sweepstakes for each were won respectively by Matt Woodbridge (Barclays) and Peter Beckett (Schroders). Me...

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