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Charities
Archives for January 2017
Discussion List
Royalty-free background music for charity reception area
Our charity has a number of interview rooms leading off our reception area. We would like to play some music at the reception desk to partially prevent the possibility of what is being said in an interview room being heard by a client waiting in the reception area. [Yes, better sound insulation - I know!] We are looking…
Fake charities - beware.
Yetserday, I had a plastic bag put through my door from "Against breast cancer", - which I believe to be genuine and above board. Today however, I have had a plastic bag from a "charity" called "Do not delay!". I decided to investigate a bit further, and I think this one is a scam. There is a company name on the back -…
Big Issue Big London Night Walk
Inspired by the story of James Bowen, author of A Street Cat Named Bob, I have joined a group of like minded people and signed up to do the Big London Night Walk on March 3rd to raise funds for the Big Issue Foundation. If anyone would like to make a donation, our JustGiving page can be found here:…
Any Plastic Bottle Lid charities?
Hi All In my company we have been saving all our bottle lids. The charity we were saving for had met their quota so we now have boxes of lids to donate. Is there a company taking them and donating? (preferably to cancer research) I founf only 1 only and they will donate £30 per 500kgs! Mean we have about 30p worth.. Thanks
charges for Debit card use.....
Why does Capita charge an extra 15p on debit cards - to pay for the Post Code Lottery ? Greed springs to mind No other company, that I can think of - adds charges to debit cards ......
Office collections
Hi everyone, I work at a large office in Derbyshire and would like to organise a bit of a spring clean event where people could bring in things that they wouldn't traditionally think they could donate to a charity shop. For example I will be asking for eye glasses that can be collected and recycled. I know that most…
If you would like to.....
Hi again, I have just recently set up just giving page for Multiple Sclerosis Society. I will be covering about 94 miles cycling 2 of which are off road. If you would like to sponsor go to just giving and search Timothy Knights and the page is titled Timothy's The Rocket sportive, Rough Ride sportive, Witshire…
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