Lichfield-based Keelys is successfully combining team-bonding exercises with a bit of charitable fund raising.

A team of solicitors from the firm led by associate partner James Chisholm (pictured right) (see printed edition Gazette [2003] 16 October) recently completed a 26-mile walk across the Black Mountains in Wales - the so-called Red Dragon Challenge - to raise money for Birmingham charity St Basils (fund-raising manager Blair Kesseler pictured left), which works for young homeless people.

Not satisfied with that, the firm is now planning a white-water rafting expedition and a swim in Lake Bala, up in the Welsh mountains, on 12 October.

After which Obiter is sure that a group hug will be forthcoming, if only to bring the circulation back to their toes.