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Business outsourcing specialist Sigma Connected has donated £1,000 to a UK charity which ensures inclusion and harnesses community skills for Romani gypsies and Irish Travellers. Sigma Connected selected charity The Traveller Movement through an employee vote as part of its Community Foundation. Established in 1999 and formerly known as the Irish Traveller Movement, the registered…
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Business outsourcing specialist Sigma Connected’s Management has committed to a monthly £1,000 donation to Birmingham Children’s Hospital for the next 12 months. The company has pledged the four-figure monthly sum for the hospital’s iMRI appeal, which is aiming to raise £1.5 million to invest into new brain surgery technology. The monthly pledge from the company…
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TransUnion has announced that it partnered with Leeds Pride as a premium sponsor, aligned to the company’s ongoing commitment to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Colleagues from TransUnion will be joining the parade through Leeds City Centre on 6 August, covering a 1.8 mile route. The team will also be participating in a fundraiser,…
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Specialist lender Together has announced it has donated over £1 million to charity in the 2023 financial year. The funds, donated to local charities across the region, have been used to support a range of projects, from new affordable housing for young people facing homelessness to providing materials and supplies to a local college to…
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Business outsourcing specialist Sigma Connected has announced a 12-month partnership with national foodbank charity, the Trussell Trust. Sigma Connected, which provides contact centre services for the utilities, retail, telecommunications and financial services sectors, selected the charity through an employee vote. The company’s UK based employees will be able to donate between £1 and £10 each…
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European credit management, Lowell has completed a 24-hour relay to raise money for their charity partners, Turning Lives Around and MyBnk. The relay started at Lowell’s Leeds based office, with over 90 colleagues from across the business completing 30-minute slots to raise money for charity. Colleagues took to a variety of different challenges to complete…
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Business process outsourcing provider Sigma Connected has donated £5,000 worth of supermarket vouchers to 50 financially vulnerable people to help them cope with the expensive Christmas period. Sigma, which offers ‘white label’ customer contact centre services across the energy, water, retail, financial services and telecommunications sectors, has given £100 vouchers to 50 people identified through…
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Computershare Loan Services and The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) have awarded £40,000 to national youth homelessness charity Depaul UK for the second year running. The organisations said the donation would help the charity continue to tackle the root causes of homelessness and improve financial wellbeing among young people aged 16-25. Nicola Harwood, Director of…
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Staff at Paylink Solutions are hoping to raise thousands of pounds to split across two charities this year. The Grantham-based fintech will raise funds for national mental health charity Mind and tech-based charity Computer Aid throughout the remainder of the year, with their first challenge, a bike-a-thon, taking place in July. Mind offers advice and…
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Global information and insights company TransUnion announces it has teamed up with Leeds United to be part of Challenge90 with the club’s official charity partner, Yorkshire Cancer Research. Challenge90 encourages the Leeds United community to exercise for 90 minutes – the duration of a football match – every week until the end of the football season in May. The aim…
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Global information and insights company, TransUnion announced its support for Save the Children, raising over £18,000 for the charity thanks to a range of fundraising activities over the past two years. TransUnion colleagues took part in a ‘Step it Up’ challenge, where over a five-week period, participating members walked a combined distance of 14,513.4km. Premier…
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Enforcement specialist, Bristow & Sutor Group has signed a charity partner agreement that will see the Midlands-based company provide support, volunteering and annual donations to The Money Charity until at least October 2024. The Money Charity provides education, information, advice and guidance to people of all ages, helping them to manage their money well and…
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Financial Wellness Group has announced that it has created the Financial Wellness Group Foundation. The Foundation has the mission of improving financial wellbeing in the UK through donations, advocacy, research and campaigning. In particular the Foundation will support the financial education of young people and adults to help equip them with the skills they need…
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