Photos from Red Nose Day

A big thank-you to all the call centres across the country who took time out to support Comic Relief and send us the photos to prove it!

Keep sending in your photos and results from the evening and and we will continue to publish them during the course of the week. Staff at Indesit Company were all smiles and laughter working until midnight on Friday night, having taken a record 1,646 calls and over £73,000 in donations on behalf of Comic Relief.

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Over 80 staff – advisors, team leaders and managers – gave up their free time to answer calls in Firstsource’s Belfast contact centre, contributing £65,000 of Comic Relief’s total £57 million.

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Staff at Tesco call centre in Cardiff recently took part in a Red Nose Day choir which created a massive buzz and a huge amount of fun.

X-factor style auditions (called “Nose Factor”) were held in the centre with the best 30 being selected and given a golden ticket. The judges fitted into their roles well with their very own Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Cheryl Cole being filled by Keith Myers-Sleight, Suzanne Cox and Michelle Dunn.

Along with around 70 other singers they belted out the song “Islands In The Stream” which is the comic relief single. On the day they managed to raise £580 towards their target of £1,000.

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Pete Lewis volunteers his Comic Relief services at the Serco call centre in Birmingham.

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JD Williams’ Contact Centre in Manchester City Centre handled approximately £75,000 in donations, with a highest single donation of £2,000, when volunteers offered their services to help staff on the official donation line for Red Nose Day 2009.

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Mondial Assistance had over 100 volunteer call centre operators taking around £78,000 in a few short hours, beating last year’s Sport Relief total.

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Capita DSGi contact centre support RND 09

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A team of 70 strong staff at RESPONSE’s head office in Glasgow took almost £50,000 worth of pledges. 

Even newly appointed managing director, Brian Bannantyne, and some of the other senior management team, got in on the act by answering calls.  

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Over 70 employees from Salisbury based HPI took more than 2,000 donations. On the night, the largest single pledge taken was £1,000, and HPI boosted this with a further £1,250 raised in-house with fundraising antics though out the week.  

Their contact centre hosted an 80’s theme fancy dress party, and all staff supported the HPI fete, which included a BBQ, tombola, guess the weight of the cake competition, plus a bottle and book stall.  

Nick Lindsay, Director of HPI says: “HPI staff that volunteered for this year’s Comic Relief telethon approached the challenge with a fantastic attitude. There were plenty of laughs, and most importantly, HPI took over £65,000 in pledges for the charity”.

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Board Directors, Department Heads, along with HR, Training and IT professionals helped out on the phones next to the expert agents and even some beCogent clients joined in the fun!

More than 200 staff helped out on the night and volunteers took more than 2610 calls and £80,000 in pledges.
Along with taking calls, beCogent staff also did lots of fun things in the run up to and on the day itself, including all staff coming into work wearing as much red as possible; Red Nose treasure hunt; Red Nose funny quiz; Space hopper & pogo stick races; Fun bun run; Children’s party games; Auctions and raffles; Early Learning Centre toy sale; The press-up challenge; Cake & candy stall; Cold bean eating contest with a cocktail stick; and sports day with the Wii.

From all these activities staff from all sites managed to raise more than £5143, which is the largest amount beCogent has ever raised for Red Nose Day!