MIR Christmas Presents: £2059.96 raised!

The draw is now closed, the money counted and all I can say is wow!

We didn’t just beat our £1500 target, we shot past it.  In total Mobile Industry Review readers have donated £2059.96 to NSPCC Childline and the UN Foundation in a mix of £, € and $ – this is equivalent to keeping a Childline workers taking calls from children desperate for help for over 100 hours. Yesterday saw an absolute flood of donations.

We’ll be drawing names for the prize winners later today and e-mailing winners directly – watch out for next week’s show to see some of the action.

Thanks to all the donors and to the excellent firms who supported us by donating prizes including:

• Vodafone’s Live Guy campaign
• Skype
• Jabra
• Supertooth
• Spinvox
• Connection Software

Last day! Almost there!

It’s the last day of our Christmas Presents campaign in aid of NSPCC Childline and the UN Foundation…

So far we’ve had a fantastic £1400 donated – we need £100 more donated today to make our target!

Thankyou to all today’s donors for your generosity – with your help we’re nearly there. See this post for details of the prizes and special – today only – bonus we’re offering.  If you haven’t donated you have until the end of the day (your time) to donate to be included in the prize draw.

Can you be the person who gets us to our target of £1500 raised in six weeks for two excellent charities?

Last day, last chance! Extra bonus prize.

It’s the last day of our Christmas Presents campaign in aid of NSPCC Childline and the UN Foundation…

So far we’ve had a fantastic £1300 donated – today we need £200 donated to make our target!

So if you or your firm hasn’t donated yet, please do here. Remember for every £5 / $10 donated we’ll put a ticket in the draw to win the fantastic prizes below (plus Connection Software’s SMS/MMS Accounts with 250 messages added yesterday) – the more you donate, the more opportunities you have to win.

Watch the site and your inboxes for details of winners – we’ll be posting a video as soon after the draw as possible.

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SPECIAL BONUS: We’ll pick two donations made today* and – in addition to entering the normal draw – we’ll send you our MyVu personal media player glasses or  Nokia N800 courtesy of some very nice people (you know who you are).

(Open to all, including previous donors)

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*That is any receipt dated the 10th Dec – any timezone, we’re not fussy.

3 days to go!

If you’ve not been following our Christmas Presents campaign in aid of NSPCC Childline and the UN Foundation then, where have you been?

So far a fantastic £1100 has been donated – we have 3 more days to make our £1500 target!

So if you or your firm hasn’t  donated yet, please do here.  Remember for every £5 / $10 donated we’ll put a ticket in the draw to win the fantastic prizes below – the more you donate, the more opportunities you have to win.

Skypephone S2 added to prizes

Thanks to all today’s donors – we’ve just hit £900… still some way to go to our £1500 target though so please head over here and donate to these two worthy causes!

…and if you needed any more incentive than the ton of prizes we already have and that warm feeling of doing something nice, the fantastic people from Skype have also given us a 3 Skypephone S2 to add to the prize pot.  Awesome

New Prize: Vodafone Dell Mini Inspiron Netbook

LATEST UPDATE: £800 donated so far – that’s enough for 16 children, traumatised by abuse, to spend one hour with a social worker rebuilding their trust in adults.  Please help us reach our target of £1500 by 10th December!

The awsome people from Vodafone’s ‘Find Live Guy‘ campaign have added another prize to the excellent pot for Mobile Industry Review’s ‘Christmas Presents’ campaign in aid of NSPCC Childline and the UN Foundation.  It’s the Dell Inspiron Mini Netbook plus three months free Vodafone broadband.  Ewan’s had one on a Vodafone contract for some time and loves it.  So click here to donate to these two great causes and get a chance to win this or any of the other great prizes!

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If you haven’t already you should definitely also check out Vodafone’s ‘Find Live Guy‘ site – it’s a fantastic interactive game.  Live Guy is in London tomorrow and by following the site, his twitters, You Tube videos and Picassa photos you can work out the places he visits during the day and ‘track him down’ (in person or online) you can win a Vodafone Dell Mini Inspiron Netbook like the one we have for our draw (Two chances to win?  We’re spoiling you!).  He’s been all round the country giving out his net-booky goodness this month and tomorrow (28th) is his last day so don’t miss out! The previous clues have been pretty cryptic!

Christmas Presents at Mobile Geeks

If you’re in London (All Bar One, New Oxford St) for Mobile Geeks of London tonight be warned that I will be there collecting donations for our MIR Christmas Presents campaign supporting Childline and the UN Foundation.  As a special treat I also have a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of champagne which we’ll be giving away in a mini-draw during the evening.

If you can’t make it tonight, take a look here to join in online.

Mobile Geeks of London information from Lord James of Whatleydude here.

MIR readers ROCK! (and win free prizes)

Thanks to all who’ve donated to the Mobile Industry Review ‘Christmas Presents’ campaign to-date.  Particularly recent donors Mike Butler, Jamie Klinger, Kara Hoisington and Jo Jensen.

I’ve just come back to my desk to find £100 has been donated so-far today… That’s enough funding for an NSPCC ChildLine worker to answer calls for 5 hours, so children in desperate need can get the help and confidential advice they want from a friendly counselor.

Wow!

…and all of those people have been entered into the draw to win a fantastic great pile of free stuff too.  So it’s win-win (as we say in consultants’ school).

If you haven’t, please do donate now.  Quite a few people are just e-mailing me at ben.smith@mobileindustryreview.com to sort out their donation for them and to help with payments in Euros and company donations.  How easy is that?