After losing a colleague suddenly in 2024, Sabio Group’s staff raised thousands to install defibrillators, train teams in CPR, and honor Scott Young’s memory.
Scott Young’s colleagues at Sabio Group could have held a memorial for him. Instead, they climbed mountains.
Over the past year, staff from across the AI-powered customer experience firm have raised thousands of pounds through a series of fundraising activities — mountain climbs, step challenges, and health-focused events — to fund defibrillators, CPR training, and a lasting commitment to heart health in Scott’s name.
The results are already tangible. CPR and AED training has been delivered to staff across the group. A new defibrillator has been purchased and installed at Sabio’s Glasgow office. Further installations are planned at sites across the business, including the company’s London headquarters.
But the initiative reaches beyond the workplace. The funds will also deliver a new defibrillator to Scott’s hometown of Howwood in Renfrewshire and pay for relocating an existing one, moving it from inside the local church to an external, publicly accessible position available to the entire community around the clock.
A Year of Showing Up
The fundraising campaign, driven entirely by Scott’s friends and colleagues following his sudden death in 2024, was designed from the start to reflect his memory through action rather than commemoration. Every activity was deliberately health-focused — a quiet statement about what the initiative was really for.
The centerpiece was Steps for Scott, a month-long step-count challenge that drew participation from staff across every Sabio region. Alongside it, teams took on some of the UK’s most demanding terrain, including Ben Nevis and Snowdon.
Andy Roberts, Sabio’s chief executive, was clear about what the response represented. “What our people have achieved over the past year is a remarkable example of deep care in action,” he said. “Colleagues from every corner of the business — across every region — came together to do something meaningful. This isn’t a one-off gesture. It’s a commitment to looking after one another and to ensuring that Scott’s legacy has a lasting, life-saving impact.”
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Broader Than One Loss
The defibrillator initiative sits alongside Sabio’s existing support for heart health causes, including fundraising efforts by Morgan McRae — son of Chief Revenue Officer Ioan McRae — in aid of heart health charities.
Taken together, they reflect something harder to manufacture than a corporate wellness policy: a culture where colleagues look after one another, and where loss, when it comes, is met with something more than silence.
Scott Young’s name will be on defibrillators in a Glasgow office, a London headquarters, and a village in Renfrewshire. The people who put them there did it in a year, on their own initiative, because they wanted to. That’s the legacy.
