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Re: Fwd: Bonus support for Action for Children
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Fri Jun 30 11:51:31 2017
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:49:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
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Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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I get that it's a good cause, but this is off topic and doesn't belong on=
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If we allow everyone with a good cause to post to NANOG then we would be=20
inundated with charity emails.
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Colin Johnston wrote:
> excuse the subject, relevant as IT techies like this.
>
>>
>> Bonus support for Action for Children
>> A BT senior manager is donating half of his bonus to Action for Childr=
en=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 executive=
s 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=A3=
2,482.00 / 2 =3D =C2=A31241(donation amount)) this year to Action for Chi=
ldren.
>> Colin said, =E2=80=9CBeing involved for a while with Action for Childr=
en, 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 whe=
re I can help support their services by fundraising and donating. If peo=
ple 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 giv=
e half of their bonus to Action for Children, it would be a simple but re=
ally effective way of helping young people to have a brighter future.=E2=80=
=9D
>>
>> Byte Night is Action for Children's biggest annual fundraiser; a natio=
nal =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 part=
icipation charity events and is the largest charity sleep-out having rais=
ed over =C2=A39.6 million since the first event. Byte Night is celebratin=
g 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.
>>
>> See mydonate page linked to Byte Night https://mydonate.bt.com/fundrai=
sers/colinjohnston1 <https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/colinjohnston1>
>>
>> For more information go to www.bytenight.org.uk <http://www.bytenight.=
org.uk/> or to donate Text Byte17 and the amount to 70070.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> Colin Johnston <https://myprofile.bt.com/Person.aspx?accountname=3DIUS=
ER%5C600969844>
>> IT Support Senior Professional, Core IT Infrastructure
>> BT Technology Service & Operations=C2=A0 <https://intra.bt.com/bt/tso/=
Pages/index.aspx> | Tel: 01313001324=C2=A0 <tel:01313001324> | MyProfile=C2=
=A0 <https://myprofile.bt.com/Person.aspx?accountname=3DIUSER%5C600969844=
> | colin.johnstone@bt.com=C2=A0 <mailto:colin.johnstone@bt.com> | http:/=
/fixit.bt.com/ <http://fixit.bt.com/>
>>
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