Mondial Assistance – Croydon
Mondial Assistance – Croydon
It was alright on the night!
Over 100 employees from Croydon based Mondial Assistance handled 70 phone lines on Friday 14th March - all in the aid of Sport Relief. The volunteers took over 2,000 donations, with a staggering £14,000 per hour raised for the charity.
Mondial Assistance staff were in high spirits as each volunteer received a goody bag, packed with treats. The Operations Development Department, Facilities Team and Comic Relief Team did a fantastic job organising the event, and persuaded local companies to provide a range of activities and treats including hundreds of doughnuts, sandwiches, boxing classes, massage treatments and ice cold cans of energy drinks to keep the volunteers going all night.
Whilst taking a break from the call centre, volunteers took part in games such as Giant Twister, Giant Connect 4, Space Hopper Racing, Table Football, Sing Star on the PS3 and were provided with a variety of whacky fancy dress clothes including sumo suits.
As the night drew on, competition between staff to get the biggest donation, and take the most calls, heated up. At midnight the donations were totalled up and the winners announced. Darren Samuel took the largest amount of money in donations with £3,302.00, Lisa Amor took the largest single donation of £1000 and Kerry Langridge managed to fit the longest word into a telephone conversation with, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"!
Rosanna Farrar, Corporate & Social Responsibilities Executive for Mondial Assistance: "Mondial Assistance staff that volunteered for this years Sport Relief telethon approached the challenge with a fantastic attitude. There were plenty of laughs and amusing anecdotes and most importantly, Mondial Assistance took over £70,000 in pledges for Sport Relief 2008".
