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 Launching a new series of social economy Masterclasses entitled 'Social Enterprise Means Business' are series partners Jonathan McAlpin (UCIT) and Kevin Kelly (Podiem Ltd), Marie Marin (Employers For Childcare), who is speaking at the first event, and Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster. For more information and to book a place at the events visit: www.podiem. |
 Local IT & creative industry businesses are signing up for the Addiction NI 10K Run to compete against each other for the “Fastest Workplace Award”. The IT and technology sectors have signed up more than any other and there seems to be some serious competition going on!
Addiction NI, a local alcohol and drug treatment charity is daring even more local businesses to take up their 10K Corporate Challenge on March 11 2012 and join in on the friendly competition. |
September 19, 2011 |  |
 Atlas Communications (NI) Ltd would like to congratulate four staff, Jenny, Tara, Pauline and Kim on each completely a tandem sky sive on Thursday 15th September in support of our company charity of the year, the Mark Pollock Trust. The trust has been set up to support an exceptional man who unfortunately lost his sight at the age of 22 and in 2010, was paralysed due to a devastating accident.
The girls jumped from 13,000 feet, with a 40 second freefall, dropping to 6,000 feet before the parachute opened. |
September 16, 2011 |  |
 Last Saturday, 10th September welcomed the country’s first ever Team Dodgeball Championships when PlayBall at the Stormont Pavilion was taken over by some very keen dodgeballers from the Northern Ireland Business Community, all in aid of charity Mencap.
Over 16 teams came together with the ICT Industry represented by teams from Allstate, NiSoft, Ignition Team and Openwave. After a great pre-game warm up and brief of the rules from members of the UK Dodgeball Association, the fun began! |
August 08, 2011 | |
 Four members of staff at Atlas Communications (NI) Ltd have organised a Tandem Sky Dive in conjunction with the Wild Geese in Garvagh to support the company’s chosen charity of 2011, the Mark Pollock Trust. The trust has been set up to support an exceptional man who unfortunately lost his sight at the age of 22 and in 2010, was paralysed due to a devastating accident.
For over a decade Mark was known as an inspiration, an adventure athlete competing in the world’s harshest environments despite being completely blind. |
 More than 150 businesswomen from across Northern Ireland attended the Women In Business’ NI Business Forum 2011 held in Belfast recently. The event, sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland, McNeill Travel and Stranmillis College, gave delegates a chance to hear from some of Northern Ireland’s top businesswomen, who spoke of their individual paths to success in business, and to participate in discussion and networking sessions.
Speakers included Aislinn Rice, sales director of global hi-tech firm Andor Technologies, Grainne Kelly, inventor of the ‘Bubblebum’ child safety seat, and Alyson Hogg, founder of beauty brand Vita Liberata. |
May 06, 2011 |  |
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April 04, 2011 |  |
We have all heard of the wonderful work that Mary Portas does in the world of retail - well she might not quite have her own TV programme yet but our very own Learning Consultant, Wendy Kay, is the volunteer responsible for managing a charity shop in Spain. And it’s not just your usual charity shop. We asked Wendy to share her top 10 tips for managing a charity retail emporium. |
March 30, 2011 |  |
Outsource staff donate to charity. |
February 24, 2011 | |
Hear Learning Pool's Director Paul McElvaney BBC Radio Ulster interview about the launch of My Learning Pool and how it fits into the Big Society agenda in the UK and the focus on charity and voluntary groups doing more. |
January 25, 2011 |  |
Local charity, Aware Defeat Depression, is holding a fundraising night in popular Belfast venue, CitiGolf on Thursday 3rd February.
The fundraiser will give you and your pals the opportunity to play virtual golf on some of the worlds’ most exclusive golf courses! If golf isn’t your thing, you could challenge your friends in a ‘Winter [... |
October 20, 2010 |  |
Two brave runners, Patrick McAliskey from Lurgan and James Montgomery from Bangor, will be taking on an incredible challenge this autumn by running two marathons within the space of two weeks across two continents, all in aid of national charity Bowel Cancer UK. Patrick and James, who work at IT company Novosco in Belfast, will first take part [...]
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May 25, 2010 |  |
Belfast, 25 May 2010 – Andor Technology have made a generous donation of £4173.37 to their charity of the year, the NSPCC. A cheque was presented to NSPCC representative Ellen Hillen on Thursday 20 May. |
May 19, 2010 |  |
The NSPCC has awarded a five year ICT contract to Newtownabbey based Northgate Managed Services (Northgate) for the provision of an ICT managed service. Northgate will be responsible for designing, implementing and managing a state of the art, resilient IT infrastructure supporting more than 2000 users in 130 locations across the UK, improving the quality of service to NSPCC staff and reducing costs. 25 new jobs will be created at Northgate as a direct result of the NSPCC contract. |
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May 11, 2010 |  |
Working on behalf of UK charity Depaul UK, London agency Publicis have released iHobo, an iPhone app designed to raise awareness of homelessness. Users can download their own homeless person and make decisions about their life by offering food, shelter, emotional support and money. They also receive alerts whenever their iHobo is in need of help. |
April 30, 2010 | |
Outsource sponsor Philip Tweedie walk for charity! |
March 24, 2010 |  |
 Leading IT solutions and services provider Equiniti ICS is aiming to raise £20K in funds for its designated charity Macmillan Cancer Support in 2010.
Equiniti ICS chose Macmillan as its charity of the year with the help of Business in the Community (BITC), and has already begun a number of company-wide initiatives aimed at raising the much needed funds. These have included creative concepts such as a St Patrick’s Day initiative with ‘leprechauns’ doling out bowls of stew to staff in return for a donation. |
March 16, 2010 |  |
Anna and Christophe have spent the last month hosting a series of digital workshops at St Matthias Primary School in Stoke Newington. We were invited down by Inspire; a charity bringing creative businesses into local schools to get kids excited about fun jobs they can do when they’re older. We wanted to our session to be a [... |
May 25, 2009 |  |
Saturday the 23rd of May saw one Asidua director set out to do battle with 8 of Irelands’ mountainous extremities, on his gruelling 800 mile cycle challenge in aid of Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice.
In just 8 days, armed with only a mountain bike, Enda Reynolds, Director of the application and integration specialists Asidua, will be joined by fellow bikers; Rick McKee, David Creighton & Mark Wright, on a epic 8 day cycling challenge, that will see them cover over 800 miles across Ireland – a challenge that has never before been attempted!
Starting at Mizen Head in County Cork, the daring team will start to make their way to the extremities of Ireland including the most westerly point in Ireland, Garraun Point in County Kerry, the epicentre of Ireland, Ballymore in County Westmeath, the most easterly point in Ireland, Burr Point on the Ards Peninsula before eventually finishing up in Malin Head in County Donegal. |
May 25, 2009 |  |
Belfast man, Gavin Bate, aimed to send the world's highest tweet from the summit of Mount Everest via satellite phone.
But it wasn't going to be any old "i'm on top of the world" tweet....Gavin had cleverly auctioned off the tweet for £5000+ to Woolworths. |
January 29, 2009 |  |
TeleTech Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), one of the largest and most geographically diverse global providers of business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, today announced that it will host its first annual awards ceremony to highlight the exceptional efforts and service of its Belfast associates.
TeleTech's 'Peaceline' site at Duncairn Gardens draws its workforce from both sides of the North Belfast community. |
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