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BOSS Today #41 NEWS

BOSS CHARITY LAUNCHES

“CLICK TO DONATE”

s more and more people find BOSS Charity Chairman, Graeme the UK are struggling right now. I wonder
Athemselves in financial hardship, Chapman MBE, said: “We really do how many of those people were from the
the BOSS Business Supplies Charity has make the lives of so many people in our business products and services industry?”
teamed up with Charity Checkout to help industry that little bit easier by giving Joining in the scheme is easy, just
boost much-needed funds. them the extra support that they need. visit: www.bossfederation.com/page.
Charity Checkout will administer the This means we need to find ways to asp?node=47876&sec=Support_Us
Charity’s fundraising website, making it increase our funds: this new way of Download the click to donate logo,
easier than ever for BOSS members to supporting us is very easy to use and - if paste it into your email signature and
contribute. The Charity is encouraging everyone contributed just the cost of forward it to your web master or CSR
BOSS members to put the fundraising a couple of cappuccinos each month - champion for it to be placed on your
link in their email signatures and on their we’d be able to do even more to help our company’s home page. Don’t forget to
business websites to remind everyone to beneficiaries. tell everyone that you support the BOSS
“click to donate”, giving people the chance “When you consider that the food bank Charity.
do their bit to help industry colleagues charity, the Trussell Trust, handed out To make a donation, just visit: https://
past and present who need a financial over a million food parcels last year, it bossfederation.charitycheckout.co.uk/
helping hand. brings it home just how many people in donate#!/

GOSH! ART

WORKSHOPS!

ni-ball artist brings design fun to The visit was organised by Uni-ball as
Uchildren at Great Ormond Street part of the stationery brand’s charitable
Hospital as part of a charitable partnership with Great Ormond Street
partnership. Hospital Children’s Charity. Over the last
Uni-ball artist Ella Johnston recently two years, staff at uni-ball have raised
brought a fun and innovative art over £178,000 for the Charity through enjoyed themselves and it was a great
workshop to patients at Great Ormond sales of their best-selling eye pens and distraction from their treatment.” Ella
Street Hospital (GOSH), one of the staff fundraising, with the money raised Johnston added “I had a wonderful
world’s leading children’s hospitals. Ella going towards supporting the hospital’s morning. Sharing the gift of creativity
met patients on the hospital’s Eagle dedicated Play Team, which designs is always a pleasure and it’s a particular
ward, which treats children with renal creative activities for children to aid their joy to work with these patients. I was
conditions, and her colourful art session treatment and recovery. most impressed with the enthusiasm
saw dialysis patients such as Gursimran Sophie Powell-White, head of account and originality they brought to their
14 (pictured), Monica 4 and Oliver 2 management at GOSH Children’s creations. We had a great laugh, too - it’s
designing their own T-shirts under Ella’s Charity said: “Ella’s design workshop always great to see smiles on people’s
artistic guidance. was fantastic, all the children really faces when we hold these sessions.”

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