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'A good night's sleep’ courtesy of Giving World and John Lewis Sheffield
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  Dozens of people suffering hardship will sleep . . .

“We are delighted we can make use of  our end of ranges, samples and split case goods through Giving World Online," Anthony Wagman, Chief Executive, Quest Personal Care Global Ltd.

 

"It's great to see the range of projects we have helped through Giving World Online and how much difference it makes," Gary Bates, Managing Director, Serif (Europe) Ltd.

 

"We are pleased that by donating this furniture to Giving World Online we are helping good causes and preventing landfill," Hilary Fryer, Charnwood Borough Council Cabinet Member for the Environment.

 

“This helps both businesses and communities and is an excellent and unique concept,” Martin Traynor, Chief Executive, Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce.

 

“Think of Giving World Online as a sort of dot.com dating agency; a marriage bureau that matches the needy with the givey to create relationships made in recycling heaven,” Leicester Mercury.

15/07/2010 - -

A Chance to Learn From the Top

 

One of Europe’s senior Television Executive’s took time out of his demanding schedule to meet a group of young people working at a Leicester based charity.

 

Arthur Bastings, Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Discovery Networks EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) paid a visit to Leicester based UK charity Giving World Online (GWO) to meet the Future Jobs Fund (FJF) team.

 

GWO founder and director, Sujata Bhalla is delighted that Mr Bastings agreed to visit the offices. She said: “It is a great opportunity that such a high profile and busy executive is taking the time to come and meet our FJF team. Some aspire to leadership roles and to have the chance to meet a senior executive of Mr Bastings’ standing is a rare opportunity.”

 

One employee said: “It is a unique chance to learn from someone of Mr Bastings’ calibre, I hope to find out more about how to progress in management, what key leadership skills you need to develop and take forward any advice he has to offer.”

 

Mr Bastings oversees the strategic development and daily operations of Discovery EMEA’s six lines of business across the region, which distributes 13 television brands via 40 network feeds to 217 million cumulative subscribers across 105 countries, with programming customised into 24 languages.

 

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