BEN BRABYN
CHARITY FUNDRAISER
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Warwick Business College - Alumni
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19 July 2002 |
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Current MBA student Ben
Brabyn's business venture BMY featured in the Sunday Times on 14 July.
Entitled 'They've cut a whole new deal', the article profiled MBA graduates
using their new skills to start their own businesses. BMY is a company set up
by Ben and a friend to harness the internet to assist charitable giving. In
15 months it has raised about £250,000 for charities such as Shelter and
Oxfam. His course affects BMY from day to day. "Quite often I'll learn
something in, say, a session on marketing, go home and adjust our strategy to
take account of what I've learnt," confirms Ben. |
http://www.wbs.ac.uk/alumni/news.cfm?CurrentPage=3
The Bmycharity online
fundraising service helps UK registered charities to harness the fundraising
power of the Internet.
Bmycharity creates and hosts
websites for partner charities for free. Charities of any size can then use the
sophisticated secure donation and reporting facilities provided by Bmycharity
to increase income and reduce costs. By encouraging viral giving, the service
reaches new supporters, while Bmycharity reports reduce management and
administrative costs and provide valuable data for accounting and database managers.
Bmycharity also provides bespoke
IT solutions to UK charities, specialising in database driven software and high
speed IT problem solving.
http://www.bmycharity.com/homesite/homepage.asp
Diabetes UK launches online payroll giving
Diabetes UK and website Bmycharity have
teamed up to make giving to charity as simple as sending an email. Employees
and members of company pension schemes can now pledge a regular donation to
Diabetes UK, without having to complete and return a paper form.
Jonathan Parris, Diabetes UK's Director of
Fundraising said: "Payroll giving is the most tax effective way of
supporting the work of Diabetes UK. We hope putting it online will make it even
easier for people to sign up and find out more about the charity, whatever size
of organisation they work for."
Give As You Earn is the most tax-effective
way for individuals to donate through their payroll. More than 600,000
employees now have access to payroll giving, which contributed £72.5m to
charity funds last year (2001/2002).
"More and more people are using the
internet to raise money for their favourite charity and spread the word to
friends and colleagues,” said Ben Brabyn, Director of Bmycharity. “We hope
putting payroll giving online will give them another quick and easy way to support
the work of charities such as Diabetes UK."
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/news/sep02/payroll.htm
SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR
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NAME |
ELECTORATE |
3,573 |
%AGE OF VOTES CAST |
%AGE VOTING |
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Ben
Brabyn |
Lib Dem |
615 |
43.4% |
BALLOT PAPERS ISSUED |
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Stephen Gray |
CONSERVATIVE |
700 |
49.4% |
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CONSERVATIVE |
729 |
51.4% |
39.69% |
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Robert David White |
Lib Dem |
728 |
51.3% |
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Trevor Russell and Robert White were
re-elected.
http://freespace.virgin.net/wcc.2001/election2002.htm
Prepared by Bob Dalrymple, PO Box 122, Dapto, NSW Australia 2350
eMail: bob@relativelyyours.com