Have a look at HSBC staff and the times they impressed us with their community work on Wearside.
We are continuing our look back at companies in the Echo headlines and this time the spotlight is on the popular bank.
Staff dug in to help at a countryside project near Penshaw Monument in 2005, and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for charity in 2011.
That’s just for starters. Check out this line-up of achievements.
Staff dug in to help at a countryside project near Penshaw Monument in 2005, and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for charity in 2011.
![The team from HSBC who planned to climb Kilimanjaro to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care in 2011.
Left to right are; Andy Blain, Jonny Leonard, Natasha Storey and Lucy Wilding.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/17/10/26/Mountainous%20memories%20from%202011.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
5. Mountainous memories from 2011
The team from HSBC who planned to climb Kilimanjaro to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care in 2011. Left to right are; Andy Blain, Jonny Leonard, Natasha Storey and Lucy Wilding. | se
![Kieren Jennings and Jonny Small, right, got on the exercise bikes for charity at the Market Square branch of HSBC.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/17/10/32/hs4.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
6. In the saddle in 2011
Kieren Jennings and Jonny Small, right, got on the exercise bikes for charity at the Market Square branch of HSBC. | se
![A team from HSBC had their own table at the prestigious Hartlepool Business Awards in 2014.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/17/10/39/Team%20line-up%20in%202014.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
7. Team line-up in 2014
A team from HSBC had their own table at the prestigious Hartlepool Business Awards in 2014. | se
![Sue Alexander from HSBC was at Washington Wetland Centre in July 2017 for the opening of the new Waterlab.
Here she is on the left with garden designer Jeni Cairns and Wetland Centre chief executive Martin Spray CBE.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/17/10/34/New%20at%20the%20Wetland%20Centre%20in%202017.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
8. New at the Wetland Centre in 2017
Sue Alexander from HSBC was at Washington Wetland Centre in July 2017 for the opening of the new Waterlab. Here she is on the left with garden designer Jeni Cairns and Wetland Centre chief executive Martin Spray CBE. | se