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Fwd: Bonus support for Action for Children
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Johnston)
Fri Jun 30 03:55:33 2017
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From: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:55:22 +0100
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excuse the subject, relevant as IT techies like this.
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> Bonus support for Action for Children=20
> A BT senior manager is donating half of his bonus to Action for =
Children=E2=80=99s Byte Night North West event and encouraging others to =
do the same.
> Colin Johnston is an IT technical manager who has supported Action for =
Children for several years. This year he and hundreds of other =
executives will be sleeping out for a night on 6 October as part of the =
charity=E2=80=99s annual Byte Night event. As well as raising money by =
taking part in this, Colin has decided to also donate 50% of his bonus =
payment (=C2=A32,482.00 / 2 =3D =C2=A31241(donation amount)) this year =
to Action for Children.
> Colin said, =E2=80=9CBeing involved for a while with Action for =
Children, I=E2=80=99ve got to know about the amazing work they do with =
children and young people and families. I=E2=80=99m happy to be in a =
position where I can help support their services by fundraising and =
donating. If people can=E2=80=99t take part in Byte Night then they can =
still help out by donating what they can =E2=80=93 if other executives =
decided to also give half of their bonus to Action for Children, it =
would be a simple but really effective way of helping young people to =
have a brighter future.=E2=80=9D
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> Byte Night is Action for Children's biggest annual fundraiser; a =
national =E2=80=98sleep-out=E2=80=99 event. Each year, hundreds of =
like-minded people from the technology and business arena give up their =
beds for one night to help change the lives of vulnerable young people. =
It all began in 1998 when 30 individuals slept out in London and raised =
=C2=A335,000. Since then Byte Night has grown to 10 UK locations and =
over 1,200 people slept out in 2016. Byte Night is one of the UK=E2=80=99s=
top 17 mass participation charity events and is the largest charity =
sleep-out having raised over =C2=A39.6 million since the first event. =
Byte Night is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and its fifth =
year in the North West.
> Colin is a board member of the North West Byte Night event.
> BT Volunteering is a very worthwhile endeavour.
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> See mydonate page linked to Byte Night =
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/colinjohnston1 =
<https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/colinjohnston1>
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> For more information go to www.bytenight.org.uk =
<http://www.bytenight.org.uk/> or to donate Text Byte17 and the amount =
to 70070.=20
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> Colin
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> Colin Johnston =
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> IT Support Senior Professional, Core IT Infrastructure
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