An event at Burnley Mechanics Theatre celebrated the four month Corporate Challenge, in which businesses competed to raise money for Pendleside Hospice; 26 companies participated raising £85,570.

In the Corporate Challenge, the Hospice give companies £50 and asked them to turn it into as much as they could during a four-month period.

Petty Estate Agents won three awards – the Innovation Award, Best Male Performance and Corporate Challenge Champion 2016, as well as being highly commended in the LOL award.

They won an Innovation Award for their ducks campaign, in which employees sold Rubber Ducks to people, who then submitted photos of the toys’ adventures in trips across the globe – in Italy, Greece and Australia and regularly appearing on social media.

The Best Male Participant award went to Petty’s Residential Director Ian Bythell, who led a team of walkers dressed as superheroes on the Yorkshire Three Peaks.

The business also won a Corporate Challenge Champion Award for their commitment to the campaign and they were highly commended in the LOL award for their ducks campaign.

Petty Residential Director, Ian Bythell said, “It was a great effort by so many people. There were some outstanding amounts raised, but the awards recognised everybody’s contribution.”