Giffgaff customers choose to donate a third of goodwill fund to charity

Giffgaff has announced that it is donating £387,039.70 of the goodwill fund it set up after this month’s network outage to Crisis. Following the outage on 6 December, which was caused by a software issue in a third party supplier’s system, giffgaff announced that it was setting up a £1m goodwill fund and gave members affected the opportunity to choose airtime credit or to donate to charity, with a deadline of 14 December to make their decision. It has now announced on its site and on social media that a third chose to donate to charity, with it giving £387,039.70 to Crisis while the remaining £612,960.30 will be split between the members who chose to receive credit. They will get 90p each.   https://twitter.com/giffgaff/status/1074675951328509952   Ash Scofield, giffgaff CEO, said on the site: “We hope that your generous donation will go a long way to having a big impact on the people that need to make use of these centres over Christmas and beyond - we’ll be making that payment as soon as we can, so that Crisis can make sure that it’s being put to use as soon as possible.”    

from UK Fundraising https://ift.tt/2R434hc