Inkfish helps Children In Need

150 staff and friends from Inkfish call centre in Stoke Road, Slough, joined Pudsey Bear to take calls from 6.30 pm on Friday 17 November to 12.30 am on Saturday morning 18 November to help with the BBC Children in Need appeal. The company, part of the Domestic & General Group, dealt with 2,700 calls donating £81 thousand, mostly from the Thames Valley area. This is the fifth year in succession that Inkfish staff have donated their free time to support Children in Need.

Volunteers also arrived from other Domestic & General companies, including Redhill, Brighton and the Group’s head office in Wimbledon.

The staff at Slough also raised £400 with a raffle including prizes such as DVD players, chocolates, wine and a TV donated by their clients. Local takeaway businesses including Pizza Hut, Greggs and Domino’s Pizza donated food to keep the volunteers going throughout the evening. Inkfish was delighted with the amount raised and were glad to be involved in what seems set to be a record-breaking event, with £18m raised so far (an increase of £1m from last year’s telephone total) for this worthy cause.

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NOTES FOR EDITORS

Inkfish Call Centres
Founded in 1995, Inkfish Call Centres has two major call centres within the UK: Nottingham and Brighton. An wholly owned subsidiary of Domestic & General Group PLC, the company offers more than 1500 seats and a 24/7 service for inbound and outbound customer contact programmes. Third party clients include Travelodge, Avon Cosmetics, BSkyB and The Post Office.

Domestic & General
Domestic & General is the UK’s largest specialist provider of breakdown protection for domestic appliances, electronic equipment and gas central heating systems. The company underwrites breakdown insurance policies for nearly 100 appliance brands, over 2,000 independent high street retailers and catalogue companies, and also operates a Quoteline service.

For more information, please contact the D&G press office on 020 8879 8580 or email pressoffice@domgen.com