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Agents in the community Taking to the air, the streets and the dance floor! Sequence skydive raises £3,000


Nine brave staff members and Chief Executive David Plumtree took to the skies and threw themselves out of a plane to raise over £3,000 for the Sequence chosen charity, CLIC Sargent. Group PR executive Christine Webb, who helped organise the jump says, “We were inspired to run this event


D&G foraging for food


Things aren’t as bad as you might think – they are still able to eat at D&G, even though the market has changed. However, there are thousands of children in London who are not so lucky. D&G have worked for over 10 years with the homeless charity Shelter. This year they are doing something different. All 200 D&G employees will dedicate


1st December to the extraordinary children’s charity Kids Company. Ivor Dickinson, D&G’s


MD, says “I have a cousin working at Kids Company who cornered me on my holiday which led to a meeting with Camila Batmanghelidjh and a tour of their HQ in Blackfriars. I was already fairly committed, but after that meeting, there was no going back. Camila explained that at Christmas they like to give hampers to all the 14,000 children they look after; but they need filling.


“I thought that surely nothing could be


simpler. So on 1st December, it’s Kids Company Day at D&G. Each office will spend the day knocking on doors and literally foraging for food. I reckon that everyone must at least donate a can of baked beans for a London child. Otherwise, really, what has this world come to? I have some very persuasive people at D&G so I am expecting to collect thousands of items of food. I have booked lorries to ferry produce from our offices to Kids Company headquarters all day long. If people aren’t going to be in, they can deliver produce to our


offices. Basically, it has to be non- perishable, rice, biscuits, tins and most heartbreaking of all, baby food. “I’m really, really hoping that the


homeowners in D&G land will get behind this, the most important day in our calendar, and give generously in any way they can to Kids Company.”


‘Kids Company give hampers to 14,000 children at Christmas time.’


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following the company’s first parachute jump in 2007.” The tandem jumps took place at venues near Nottingham, Oxford, Maidstone and Norwich. Each person was strapped to an instructor before being taken up to 13,000 feet in a small plane. They were then dangled over the edge of the door before


freefalling at 140mph for 45 seconds when the parachute opened and floated them back down to earth. Christine says, “The response the


‘jumpers’ was fantastic, with many saying it was such an amazing and exhilarating experience which they’d love to do again.”


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