2 CIRCLES WIN AGAIN

2 Circles Communications have received the accolade of O2’s JUC Wholesale Partner of the Year for 2013, making it 3 consecutive years that the Herts based company have picked up this prestigious award. The title is given for volume of business placed and quality of account management. Bernie McPhillips, Head of Wholesale Partners at O2 says “2 Circles is a key and strategic Wholesale Partner for O2, with an impressive portfolio of clients, demonstrating best in class service to their customers. It was these attributes that led to them being ranked O2’s no 1 JUC Wholesale Partner in 2013”.

EMPLOYEE CHARITY EVENTS

Operations Director, Andy Reid recently rode from London to Paris raising over £4,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support and subjecting us all to pictures of him in lycra in the process!

Kirsty Reed (Customer Experience Account Manager) was heavily involved in a family fun day raising £4,000 for Ian Rennie Hospice in loving memory of a friend, click here for further details.

Tony Alderson (Partner Experience Department Manager) has been volunteering his time at charity station, Radio Decorum. Tony is on the Back of the Net football show every other Saturday – will this spare us from him talking about football at work? Not likely!

Laurie Hann (Customer Experience Account Manager) raised a fantastic £1230 for the Alzheimer’s Society in memory of his Grandma.

Sisters Lisa and Julia McParland from the Customer Experience Team raised over £440 in the St Albans Race for Life 10k run.

AFFINITY PARTNERS

Future Office 365 are proud telecoms suppliers to The Church of Scotland and promote their associated CrossReach Directory Enquiries service 118599, costing 40P per call with 9p of that going to the CrossReach charity. CrossReach was launched in June 2005 and was previously known as the Church of Scotland Board of Social Responsibility. Under their new name, CrossReach continues the Church of Scotland’s long tradition of providing care and support. In fact, this work started back in 1869, so they have a long history in the field of social care. Future Office 365 have recently added the Christian Supply Chain Buying Group (CSCBG) to our list of Affinity Partners.  CSCBG offer the following benefits to their members:

• Facilitates quality products and services at the best possible negotiated prices for the members they serve
• Has evolved with the aim of forming a voluntary buying cooperative with the core function of facilitating reduced costs associated with ministry
• Uses the combined purchasing power of their member organisations to leverage suppliers for the best possible prices on a large range of quality products and services
• Able to negotiate preferential pricing and services with suppliers throughout the UK, Australia and New Zealand

For a full list of the Affinity Partners we proudly work with, please click here.

SPONSORSHIP

Harpenden Spotlight on Africa Future Office 365 donated the wine for the ‘Wine or Water’ Tombola stall at Harpenden Carnival, helping to raise money for clean water for the slum community of Musoto, Uganda. There has not been a case of cholera for a year and stomach and skin problems have reduced dramatically thanks to the money raised by HSoA. OAs Rugby Proud sponsors of Old Albanian Rugby Football Club. St Albans Hockey Club Proud sponsors of the Ladies 1^st Team.