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Christmas Giving 2019 (Part 2!)

Mon, 23/12/2019 - 10:23am

More donations!

We’ve been giving every staff member £200 to spend on charitable causes each Christmas for the last 16 years.

Here is more of what we chose…

We have funded a portable pharmacy in rural Africa and Asia, where access to healthcare hardly exists. This will enable doctors to treat up to 1,500 patients in remote emergency health camps, with pain killers, antibiotics, eye drops, ointments, creams, diuretics, water purification tablets and more. The pharmacy, which would normally cost £4,000, is donated by UK pharmaceutical companies and costs only £400 to assemble and deliver. Naturally, it’s a godsend in war zones, such as Yemen.

We are providing operations that correct cataract, trachoma and other blinding conditions for two children and five adults in Africa and providing medical treatment that will protect 2000 people from River Blindness and Elephantiasis.

We are also providing medicine to de-worm 2000 children in Africa and paying for midwives to attend two births to ensure safe deliveries.

We are really proud that profits from our business here can go to such good causes.

 

Christmas Giving 2019 (Part 1!)

Wed, 18/12/2019 - 9:41am

We all had £200 each to donate to charity. What did we choose?

Each Christmas every member of our team gets to spend £200 of company profits on charitable gifts from goodgifts.org.

This is our 16th year of doing this!

Today I want to tell you about the gifts our team have selected for those in the UK.

We are donating funds to plant trees and woods along river banks and flood plains.

We're helping to clear forest debris from bluebell woods to help them thrive.

We're buying 24m of greenbelt to protect it from developers.

We are providing a day's worth of dementia clubs, providing activities such as singing, knitting, baking and exercise classes to help slow deterioration.

We are donating money to feed UK schoolchildren through the holidays, who don't have access to the school meals they normally rely on, and providing housing for a homeless person for a week.

We are helping the elderly with pet food and vet bills and providing a Christmas hamper for someone who'd otherwise have nothing.

We are planting 35 trees for schools and community groups to combat global warming.

We're buying toys for zoo animals to make life more interesting, and buying 450g of wildflower seeds to help provide habitats for our bees.

We're also supporting many overseas projects. More details to come tomorrow!

 
 

£22 raised for MIND

Tue, 08/10/2019 - 11:52am

Our monthly 'dress down' day raised funds on their behalf.

On the first Monday of each month IS staff can come to the Chapel in their casual clothes in return for a donation of £2 to the charity being supported. Staff can nominate any good cause they feel deserves a bit of extra help. This month we decided to support MIND, suggested by Debbie Bailey, our Finance and HR Officer

 

This week's featured topic

Tue, 06/08/2019 - 12:02pm

Finding and deleting redundant reports

As part of our highly regarded support service we send a weekly hints and tips email to all institutions using Heritage Cirqa. This week we explain how to find and remove redundant reports from your system.

 

Rob completes 5km Charity swim!

Tue, 06/08/2019 - 12:04pm

£250 to Wilts Air Ambulance

We were very proud of Rob Perkins in our Support Services team. His performance last weekend was very impressive and we decided to sponsor him £250 towards the money he is raising for Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

 

This week's featured topic

Tue, 23/07/2019 - 9:37am

Making a data entry field bigger

As part of our highly regarded support service we send a weekly hints and tips email to all institutions using Heritage Cirqa. This week we explain how to make data entry fields bigger.

 

Heritage Cirqa 5.5 Release News!

Tue, 23/07/2019 - 9:39am

Heritage Cirqa 5.5 will be available on Monday 29th July

We have been upgrading hosted customers for the past few weeks but we will be making the upgrade available to all customers next Monday. Those who are not hosted by IS Oxford will be able to download and apply the upgrade, which is free for all Heritage Cirqa users.

 

This week's featured topic

Tue, 16/07/2019 - 11:24am

How to make reader email addresses mandatory

As part of our highly regarded support service we send a weekly hints and tips email to all institutions using Heritage Cirqa.

 
 

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