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Duncan Bannatyne invites more businesses to join the Campaign.
Posted on Wednesday 17 February 2010
Duncan Bannatyne is encouraging more businesses across the UK to join the Geared for Giving Campaign by writing to tell them about the success of his own scheme within the Bannatyne Group of businesses.
Duncan has written to Chief Executives of a host of leading businesses across the North East of England and Scotland. [...]
Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar Council employees ‘Gear Up To Give’
Posted on Thursday 11 February 2010
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has this week joined the national Geared for Giving Campaign and re-launched its Workplace Giving scheme to its 3,000 staff across the islands of the Outer Hebrides.
The scheme is being promoted to all Council staff across the Western Isles in the coming weeks. Although the scheme has been in place for [...]
Only 100,000 more staff to hit the million!
Posted on Friday 5 February 2010
We are thrilled that the number of companies joining the Campaign continues to grow week on week and the momentum is building so that 1 million more employees can give in the most tax effective way to charity.
We are over the 900,000 mark as of yesterday with several well known employers signing up to [...]
Expedia excels at Workplace Giving
Posted on Wednesday 27 January 2010
Expedia, the UK’s largest online travel provider has signed up to the Campaign and re-launched its Workplace Giving scheme this month and already over 10% of staff have signed up to support their favourite charities.
The company’s Covent Garden offices house more than 450 employees representing leading brands such as Expedia.co.uk, hotels.com as well as [...]
ASOS unleashes its charitable side and joins the campaign
Posted on Wednesday 13 January 2010
‘Unleash your charitable side’ urges ASOS, the online fashion store, to their employees and unleashed it has been. On the first day of the re-launch of their Workplace Giving Scheme employees pledged over £6,000 to numerous charities, with over half of employees based in their Hemel Hempstead location signing up.
Louise McCabe, Head of CSR at [...]
Conwy Council Joins the campaign
Posted on Friday 4 December 2009
Conwy Council has recently signed up for the campaign by making all staff aware of the benefits of giving to charity via the workplace.
The Chief Executive Byron Davies is very supportive of the campaign, like many councils across the country who are joining the scheme or re-launching dormant schemes.
Mr Davies believes “The Geared for Giving [...]
850,000 More employees are Geared for Giving
Posted on Friday 6 November 2009
We are delighted that the Geared for Giving campaign counter has now surpassed the 850,000 employee mark. We are heading ever closer tot eh campaign target of 1 million!
This means that an additional 850,000 UK employees now have access tot he most effective way to give to charity, since the campaign launched last year.
If only [...]
Geared for Giving Campaign Update
Posted on Friday 23 October 2009
We are thrilled that the Campaign is heading every closer to the 1 million more employee’s having access to a Workplace Giving scheme.
This is due to the ever increasing number of enlightened employers who have been signing up to the Campaign. These include Birmingham City Council, Bury Council, Center Parcs, GAM UK, ASOS, Staples Advantage, [...]
Geared Up Employers lead the way at National Awards
Posted on Tuesday 13 October 2009
Geared Up Employers swept the board at the National Payroll Giving Excellence Awards held at the Treasury this week. Beaverbrooks picked up two awards for ‘Best Launch of a New Scheme’ and ‘The Most Successful Payroll Giving Promotion’, while ’Best Public Sector Employer Campaign’ went to the London Borough of Islington, who topped our league [...]
Rochdale Borough Council doubles numbers giving to charity
Posted on Friday 18 September 2009
Rochdale Borough Council had doubled the number of staff giving to charity since joining the Geared for Giving campaign and re-launching its Workplace Giving scheme.
Roger Ellis, Chief Executive of Rochdale Borough Council, responded to a letter from MP Anne Snelgrove urging councils across the UK to support the Geared for Giving campaign and help charities [...]
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