Nominate your Vodafone staff volunteer and receive £50

Howard Lake | 21 April 2005 | News

The Vodafone UK Foundation is asking charities and community organisations across the UK to champion Vodafone staff fundraising or volunteering on their behalf for a new award. For every successful nomination, the charity will earn £50.

If your organisation benefits from the voluntary services of a staff member from mobile phone company Vodafone, and you think the volunteer deserves recognition, you should nominate them for The Vodafone UK Foundation Community Awards 2005.

The Awards, in partnership with Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), will be a celebration of the increasing numbers of Vodafone employees who volunteer their time to help in the community or to fundraise for their favourite cause.

Every eligible application will earn £50 to the organisation nominating, with a winning organisation earning up to £1,000 for their cause.

The launch of the Awards coincides with the announcement that in the last financial yea, Vodafone employees in the UK raised over £1.3 million for charitable organisations. This represents a 35% increase on the amount raised in the same period last year.

Alan Harper, Chairman of The Vodafone UK Foundation, said: “Nominating couldn’t be easier. It could be for anything from volunteering as a school governor, helping a local school with reading skills or taking part in sponsored runs or walks to raise money for favourite causes.”

The deadline for receipt of nominations is 23 September 2005.

About Howard Lake
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.