Whitbread Group wins at National Payroll Giving Excellence Awards with Destiny digital pen
Howard Lake | 12 October 2009 | News
Whitbread Group’s use of the digital pen, which is based on Anoto technology, was recognised at the awards as – innovative and creative.
In partnership with Payroll Giving in Action, Whitbread Group PLC really pushed themselves to achieve more and to be innovative, cleverly using Destiny’s digital pen to engage staff, reduce paper and increase efficiency.
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Payroll Giving in Action directly contacted each of Whitbread’s site managers about the scheme to arrange fundraiser visits. Payroll Giving in Action have a nationwide team of flexible fundraisers who can visit any location to maximise uptake of the scheme. By explaining the benefits to all employees and giving them the opportunity to join, participation levels rose from 11% to 18% last year, generating over £500,000
Payroll Giving in Action introduced Whitbread to the digital pen solution, allowing employees to sign-up to payroll giving while the PGiA representative was on site, and together with web-based applications, reduced paper. It also allowed the internal departments to process employee’s donations without manual re-entry and provided Charities Trust with secure electronic data.
“In the past”, said Jeremy Colwill director of Payroll Giving in Action, “we had to manually scan and input the forms to our database, which was very time-consuming. It took up to two weeks to get new donors onto the programme. Now, with Destiny digital pens, the data from each new form is instantly transmitted from the field to our database. This means that we can start sooner on an earlier pay run, and charities can benefit faster. Once people have made their decision they want to begin straightaway – and this helps them do it.”
“This is another outstanding testament to the versatility of our solution, we are very proud ourselves that Whitbread have been recognised with an award and even more delighted that the pen is being used for such a good cause”, said Destiny’s founder and CEO Edward Belgeonne.
Jo Rackham from Whitbread received the Best Innovative Promotional Partnership from the Rt Hon Angela Smith MP – Minister for the Third Sector.
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About Destiny
Destiny is the registered trademark for Destiny Wireless plc, a world leader in the business market for the delivery of mobile workforce solutions. Destiny is a global Platinum Partner of Anoto Group AB, one of five in the world and the only one in the UK. Destiny owns the IP rights of the Logitech io2 digital pen, making them one of two digital pen manufacturers in the world.
Destiny enables organisations with mobile workforces to get fast returns from high technology at low cost, with little or no training, change to working practices or upfront capital. The Destiny digital pen is based on Anoto Digital Pen and Paper technology and replaces paperwork delays and expensive trips back to the office with an easy-to-use and energy-efficient way of collecting accurate, reliable data from the field and transmitting it back to base in seconds.
Destiny’s services include digital pens, digitised forms, mobile devices and web-based tools for the efficient collection and management of data from the field, effective job push and allocation, resource management, intelligent scheduling and asset tracking.
Destiny’s award accolades include: 2007 Growing Business Awards Technology in Business; Microsoft’s People Moving Business, Quality in Construction for Excellence in ICT and the Information Age Effective IT Award. Edward Belgeonne, CEO and founder of Destiny, is the national winner of Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of The Year Award for Science and Technology, 2007. Destiny was also nominated a finalist in the BCS IT Industry awards for the Best Use of Green Technology Project Award in conjunction with Advanced Peripheral Systems (APS). For further information please visit destinyplc.com.
About Anoto Group
Anoto Group is the company behind and world leading in the unique technology for digital pen and paper, which enables fast and reliable transmission of handwritten text into a digital format. Anoto operates through a global partner network that focuses on user-friendly forms solutions for efficient capture, transmission and storage of data within different business segments, e.g. healthcare, bank and finance, transport and logistics and education. The Anoto Group has around 110 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Boston and Tokyo. The Anoto share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Nordic small cap list under the ticker ANOT. For more information: www.anoto.com
About Vision Whitbread
Whitbread Group PLC is the UK’s largest hotel and restaurant group, managing the number one brands in hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, including Premier Inn, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Beefeater, Taybarns and Costa.
They employ 33,000 people who serve 9 million customers each month at their 1800 outlets across the UK.
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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.