We're world record breakers!

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ROYAL MAIL GROUP WORKERS SET CHARITY RECORD

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The workforce of Royal Mail Group today became Guinness World Record title holders after the UK postal service was awarded the record for the most registered charities supported by a Payroll Giving Scheme.

One in four Royal Mail Group employees have supported a total of 975 registered charities and good causes by donating money direct from their pay. Around £45 million has been given by employees since starting the scheme 23 years ago. Over £2 million has been raised in the last year alone.

Help the Hospices, Barnardo's, County Air Ambulance Trust, Macmillan Cancer Support and Royal Mail Group's own charity, the Rowland Hill Benevolent Fund, have all received cash sums from generous employees.

Marek Toombs, Royal Mail Collection Planner for the South East, has donated money to the cancer charity Macmillan for the last seven years through the payroll giving scheme. It is a cause close to his heart.

"My mum was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when I was 11, and she passed away two years later," Marek explains.

Keen to see how his donations help, Marek visited a local Macmillan cancer centre at Gillingham's Medway Maritime Hospital. The unit was funded jointly by Macmillan and Medway NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, and opened in 2009. It offers chemotherapy facilities and a ground-breaking Cancer Information Service launched just over a year ago, which Macmillan is currently funding.

Marek said:" I was really impressed with the facilities. The services Macmillan offers there would certainly have helped my family when we were going through this.

"I'd like to think my donations have helped in a small way. However it is not necessary that people are touched personally in order to help. Charities function and rely on people donating money to them and the payroll giving scheme is an excellent way to help these worthwhile causes."

Royal Mail Group received the Guinness World Records official certificate at a special ceremony in London.

Chief Executive Officer, Moya Greene, who accepted the award on behalf of the company's payroll givers, said: "It's a tremendous honour for our people to receive this award from Guinness World Records.

"Our postmen and women play a vital and trusted role in every community across the UK. I am delighted that our postmen and women have been recognised as the world's best for donating to charity direct from their pay."

Gaz Deaves, Guinness World Records Adjudicator, said :"This Guinness World Record recognises the 975 registered charities supported and reflects the huge generosity of all those working at the Royal Mail, congratulations to all on this special world record."

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We are the Guinness world record holders for the most registered charities supported by a Payroll Giving scheme.

Chief executive Moya Greene and some of our postmen and women who donate the most through the scheme received the certificate from Guiness.

Moya said: ‘It’s a tremendous honour for our people to receive this award.

‘Our postmen and women play a vital and trusted role in every community across the UK. I am delighted they have been recognised as the world’s best for donating to charity direct from their pay.’

We’ve raised £43 million through Payroll Giving since the scheme launched in 1989. Staff have donated more than £2 million in the last 12 months.

The money has helped 975 verified charities – a figure that earned the Guinness World Record.

Money is vital
Mount Pleasant postmen Imtiyaz Chawan and Godfrey Jones attended the ceremony and are incredibly proud of the record.

Imtiyaz, pictured, said: ‘I’ve been donating for a long time. The record was a really nice surprise. I hope it will encourage a lot more people to donate.’

Staff nurse Nicola Cummings from St Joseph’s Hospice and Marina Phillips of Help the Hospices represented beneficiaries of Royal Mail’s Payroll Giving.

Nicola said: ‘The money we receive makes a hell of a difference. It pays for our training.’

Marina added: ‘Help the Hospices receives £15,000 a month from Payroll Giving alone. That money is vital.’

The Government said it was ‘most impressed’ with the amount we had raised through our payroll giving scheme, and the huge range of charities we support.

In a letter to Moya, Chloe Smith, economic secretary to the Treasury, praised our people, saying: ‘The Government is very supportive of the scheme and wishes to encourage greater charitable giving through payroll giving, so I am most impressed with what staff have achieved both in donations and the range of charities benefitting.’

[General Mannerheim]

I take it they don't include the subs to the union then?
Fat Dave and Billy have been living off it's members `charity` for years.

[TeeferTiger]

I wish they wouldn't write to Moya, it makes it seem like it was all her idea and her glorious people...

[Lounge Lizard]

So that's nearly £1 a month from each employee.

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I've had a deduction from my pay that just says "charity deduction" for as long as I can remember - I must have known what it was for originally but I've no idea now.

[Lounge Lizard]

I've had a deduction from my pay that just says "charity deduction" for as long as I can remember - I must have known what it was for originally but I've no idea now.

Alzheimer's Society ?

[dvbuk55]

I've had a deduction from my pay that just says "charity deduction" for as long as I can remember - I must have known what it was for originally but I've no idea now.

Alzheimer's Society ?

You have no idea how sensitive a person I am LL...............I will now be going to my bed with a tear in my eye - I've seen programs about Alzhei erm .......zzzzzzzzz....erm what was I saying.............yes ...................Matron I think I've done it again unless a fart has lumps

[Lounge Lizard]

I've had a deduction from my pay that just says "charity deduction" for as long as I can remember - I must have known what it was for originally but I've no idea now.

Alzheimer's Society ?

You have no idea how sensitive a person I am LL...............I will now be going to my bed with a tear in my eye - I've seen programs about Alzhei erm .......zzzzzzzzz....erm what was I saying.............yes ...................Matron I think I've done it again unless a fart has lumps

Sensitive - no, I never knew that
You'll be forgetting to deliver your door to doors next.

[dvbuk55]

I've had a deduction from my pay that just says "charity deduction" for as long as I can remember - I must have known what it was for originally but I've no idea now.

Alzheimer's Society ?

You have no idea how sensitive a person I am LL...............I will now be going to my bed with a tear in my eye - I've seen programs about Alzhei erm .......zzzzzzzzz....erm what was I saying.............yes ...................Matron I think I've done it again unless a fart has lumps

Sensitive - no, I never knew that
You'll be forgetting to deliver your door to doors next.

Sensitive - I'll say - I take everything to heart . No way.............I don't deliver them, when I was supposed to deliver them one of the D2D kings did them. I mean I used to leave in most days long before BT2010 - I reckon it's about 9 years since I did a delivery.........................

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To be fair,Kudos to us for this.