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Royal Mail's goodwill gesture to London Olympic bid
Howard Lake | 19 December 2003 | News
The Royal Mail has pledged to donate £1 million to London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games as a gesture of goodwill to all its customers affected by the recent industrial action.
The pledge was made by Chairman Allan Leighton in a letter to Royal Mail customers. Apologising for delays encountered in receiving post, Leighton regretted that the company’s compensation scheme did not apply when services were disrupted due to industrial action.
As a result the £1 million pledge was made “on behalf of all our customers.”
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.