npower's Hull Call Centre Shows its Support for Red Nose Day

Npower has revealed its plans to support Comic Relief at its Bridge House call centre in Hull.

2013-03-14

WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND, March 14, 2013 (Press-News.org) Npower's Bridge House call centre in Hull is delighted to announce its support for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2013 as the selected regional call centre for the night.

On Friday 15 March, Red Nose Day takes over the UK and, in true npower form, staff from the call centre in Hull will be throwing themselves wholeheartedly into the day with various fundraising activities and will have 70 phone lines open until midnight.

More than 120 npower staff from all over the business will be giving up their Friday nights as volunteers manning the phone lines. As well as receiving donations, the team will also be fundraising in the week before with various activities taking place. From embracing 80s themed fancy dress and karaoke, to cakes sales, sponsored head shaves and even wet sponge throwing at managers, the npower staff are committed to raising money. All money raised on site will be added to the GBP5,000 donation already pledged by npower's charity committee to Comic Relief.

Joining the dedicated npower staff will be Omari Caro and James Green from local rugby league side, Hull Kingston Rovers who will be showing their support as part of their wider commitment to Red Nose Day. The players have promised their support on the night and plan to help with the fundraising.

Paul Massara, npower's Chief Executive Officer, commented: "I'm really proud of our team at Bridge House who are happily giving up their own time to support this great cause. Red Nose Day brings the entire nation together to have fun, raise cash and change lives - it is great for npower to play its part."

Joel Chapman, Executive Relations Manager at npower's Bridge House office, said: "It's been a busy few weeks preparing for the big night on Friday, from making sure the phone lines are all ready, to recruiting people to take part in the sponsored head shave, inspired by Jessie J. This is a great example of how well our people come together to support such worthy causes, and I'm really proud to be involved."

This year's Red Nose Day support follows on from a hugely successful evening in March 2012, when Bridge House handled around 1,500 calls for Sport Relief and took GBP44,000 in donations from generous members of the public.

As one of the UK's biggest fundraising events, Red Nose Day is a UK-wide fundraising event organised by Comic Relief every two years. On Red Nose Day everyone, including celebrities, is encouraged to cast inhibitions aside, put on a Red Nose and do something funny for money. Red Nose Day unites the entire nation in trying to make a difference to the lives of countless people across Africa and the UK who are facing terrible injustice or living in desperate poverty. For more information please visit www.rednoseday.com.

About npower
npower is one of the UK's largest electricity suppliers and has 6.6 million customer accounts across the UK.

npower has been awarded platinum status in Business in the Community's CR Index and is one of 29 companies to have achieved the CommunityMark since its launch. All CommunityMark achievers have been recognised for demonstrating excellence in their holistic and strategic approach to community investment.

ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:

Sound Physicians Recruitment Results - Leading Hospitalist Organization Hires More Than 200 Physicians in 2012

2013-03-14

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, recorded a strong year of recruiting success, hiring 212 physician colleagues in 2012. The average recruitment time was 102 days from the start of the search to hire, well ahead of the industry benchmark of 180 days for internal medicine physicians. Today, with more than 600 hospitalist colleagues, Sound Physicians employs approximately one out of every 50 hospitalists practicing in U.S. hospitals. "Our ...

Recovery in motion

2013-03-13

A new study has found a link between the activity levels of elderly people who have just been released from the hospital and the risk that they will require readmission within 30 days. The investigation draws on data collected from 111 patients aged 65 and older, each of whom was fitted with a "step activity monitor" during his or her hospital stay. Worn on the patient's ankle, the pager-sized device counted every step the person took during hospitalization and for a week after discharge. "We're using activity here as a biomarker, similar to the way you might use blood ...

Current HIV screening guidelines are too conservative

2013-03-13

Early HIV treatment can save lives as well as have profound prevention benefits. But those infected with the virus first must be identified before they can be helped. In a new study, two Northwestern University researchers report that current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV screening guidelines are too conservative and that more frequent testing would be cost-effective in the long run for both high- and low-risk groups. The Northwestern team performed a mathematical modeling study to assess "optimal testing frequencies" for HIV screening in different ...

A high-resolution endoscope as thin as a human hair

2013-03-13

Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated a high-resolution endoscope that is as thin as a human hair with a resolution four times better than previous devices of similar design. The so-called micro-endoscope is a significant step forward in high-resolution, minimally invasive bio-imaging with potential applications in research and clinical practice. Micro-endoscopy could enable new methods in diverse fields ranging from study of the brain to early cancer detection. The new endoscope was developed by a team under the direction of Joseph Kahn, professor of electrical engineering ...

Americans and religion increasingly parting ways

2013-03-13

Religious affiliation in the United States is at its lowest point since it began to be tracked in the 1930s, according to analysis of newly released survey data by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Duke University. Last year, one in five Americans claimed they had no religious preference, more than double the number reported in 1990. UC Berkeley sociologists Mike Hout and Claude Fischer , along with Mark Chaves of Duke University, analyzed data on religious attitudes as part of the General Social Survey, a highly cited biannual poll conducted ...

Do blood thinners + stroke treatment = danger? Study indicates the risk is low

2013-03-13

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Millions of Americans take aspirin or other drugs every day to reduce their risk of heart attacks or other problems caused by blood clots. But when one of them suffers a stroke caused by a clot in their brain, some emergency teams might hesitate to give a powerful clot-busting medication called tPA -- for fear that the combination of drugs might cause dangerous brain bleeding. Now, a University of Michigan Stroke Program study suggests this fear may be unfounded, at least for most patients taking common clot-preventing therapies. The study is ...

Large study finds that physician gender does not affect patient-care costs or mortality

2013-03-13

Female doctors' patients do not use health-care services more or die less frequently than patients treated by male doctors, a prospective, observational study by researchers at UC Davis Health System has found. The study, published in the March-April issue of The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, is the first large, nationwide evaluation of the association between provider gender and patients' use of health-care services and mortality. "Our findings suggest that if the goal is to contain costs and the risk of death, there is no reason to differentially ...

Whole genome sequencing of wild rice reveals the mechanisms underlying oryza genome evolution

2013-03-13

March 13, 2013, Shenzhen, China - In a collaborative study published online today in Nature Communications, researchers from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, BGI-Shenzhen, and University of Arizona have completed the genome sequencing of wild rice Oryza brachyantha. This work provides new insights for researchers to understand the function and evolution of Oryza genomes. The genus Oryza is an idea model system for studying plant comparative genomics, evolutionary biology and functional biology. There are two cultivated rice ...

Researchers advance fight against leading infectious cause of congenital birth defects

2013-03-13

VIDEO: Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Cardiff University in Wales (UK) have discovered a previously unknown cellular mechanism that could prove critical in creating a... Click here for more information. SAN DIEGO – (March 13, 2013) A virus most people probably have never heard of, but that the majority of us carry, is the No. 1 infectious cause of congenital birth defects in the U.S. today. Because of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during ...

New technique creates stronger, lightweight magnesium alloys

2013-03-13

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating stronger, lightweight magnesium alloys that have potential structural applications in the automobile and aerospace industries. Engineers constantly seek strong, lightweight materials for use in cars and planes to improve fuel efficiency. Their goal is to develop structural materials with a high "specific strength," which is defined as a material's strength divided by its density. In other words, specific strength measures how much load it can carry per unit of weight. Researchers ...

npower's Hull Call Centre Shows its Support for Red Nose Day

ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:

LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES: