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Business outsourcing firm, Sigma Connected, which provides contact centre services across the utilities, retail, telecommunications and financial services sectors, has donated 20 laptops they no longer use to The Refugee & Migrant Centre charity. The IT donation, which also includes new replacement hard drives which have been paid for through Sigma Connected’s Community Foundation, will…
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Sigma Connected t has marked a key milestone in its long-term fundraising for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity. The collections specialist has now raised £100,000 for the hospital to help support the care it provides for hundreds of thousands of sick children every year across the entire country. Mike Harfield, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at…
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Oracle Car Finance, has raised over £50,000 for Martin House Children’s Hospice Oracle, located in Knaresborough, has been supporting the Wetherby charity for two years, and confirms the extension of their corporate partnership for a third consecutive year. Marking the beginning of their third year as a charity partner, the North Yorkshire-based finance broker welcomed…
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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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