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Another brilliant story from Romy Smith at giffgaff around Women in Engineering day.

At giffgaff we’re immensely proud of the amazing group of women that work in our engineering teams. #INWED24 Our engineers play a major role in creating the tech that impacts over 4 million members (that’s what we call our lovely customers), making a big difference in how they stay connected and communicate with their friends and loved ones. Our engineers worked on launching our new contract offering, creating a flexible promotions engine to offer even more value to our members, adding support for eSIMs, and much more (watch this space). We build our tech using some of the best modern technologies, relying on great software development practices that allow us to create high-quality products that our members love. Esra Kaya one of our engineering leads, said: “Working at giffgaff has been a highlight of my career. The company not only makes me feel valued but also prides itself on giving back to the community, making me incredibly proud to be part of the team”. It’s thanks to our engineers that we can bring our big ideas to life and disrupt industries in true giffgaff style! If this sounds like the sort of company you'd like to work for, check out our open roles on LinkedIn or reach out to our recruiter Melanie Saunders.

We’re excited to see the two worlds come to life for everyone to enjoy. Huge well done giffgaffer, Nerissa Abrahams, for all her hard work on this partnership.

I’m proud that belonging and inclusion is truly important to us at giffgaff. We’re dedicated to driving tangible action through DE&I as it's essential to show that we're Up to Good for all giffgaffers. This year, we want to make an even bigger commitment to embracing everyone's differences in the workplace, so I’m excited to announce our latest partnership with Psalt. Psalt helps organisations create environments where everyone can bring their unique differences. The team are experts in helping businesses, like giffgaff, that are growing to ensure we're nurturing a truly progressive, forward-thinking environment where all teams can thrive. We will be working specifically with Andy Ayim MBE, who is simply fantastic! Building an environment where everyone feels valued is essential in any organisation, and at giffgaff, we believe that DE&I is the key to achieving our long term organisational goals. From our partnership with Psalt, we aim to: ✅Establish a shared understanding of why DE&I matters at giffgaff and how we measure how far our people’s experiences contribute to giffgaff’s growth ambitions ✅Create a truly unique working environment through listening to and acting on our giffgaffer’s personal experiences around belonging to generate themes we can take action on ✅Empower giffgaffers to take personal responsibility for DE&I I’m incredibly excited to start this work with Psalt to make long term positive impact and be Up to Good! #DEI #Diversity #Equity #Incluison

Every year giffgaffers have the opportunity to take five paid volunteering days - in person or virtually - to give back and support the local community. Last week more than 100 of us volunteered in one form or another. Around 30 people donned a high vis and litter picker in support of Keep Britain Tidy, others rolled up their sleeves at the local allotment to support Mind and some helped out Trinity Homeless Projects by cooking, gardening and painting. One of our volunteers, Kate Hatcher, said that "listening to stories from residents at Olympic House (the temporary homeless shelter run by Trinity) was the highlight of my week and has given me a deeper understanding of the issues faced by people experiencing homelessness. I'm proud that our efforts mean that people now have a space to relax and receive support in." It's such an enriching day, and also a great reason to bring us all together.

Our partnership with Big Issue is something all us giffgaffers* are super proud of. By providing 250 refurbished phones we could support a boost in vendor income, help increase their confidence and skills and make sales easier for their customers. 🤍 *what we like to call our fab employees

This week, we (alongside MG OMD) launched the Up To Good Collective Fund, inviting clients and agency partners to contribute a percentage of their media spend or ad value to support climate action. The fund is in partnership with Ecologi | B Corp™, which helps businesses calculate and improve their climate impact. Money from the fund will be used initially to support three projects that will make a positive impact to everyone involved. Welcome on board Global, Bauer Media Group, Snap Inc. LADbible Group, The GoodNet, Mobsta Ltd - Certified B Corp®, WeAre8 and Ozone | Powering the premium web and more. A big thank you to Campaign UK for helping us to spread the word - https://lnkd.in/e9zM8JuT #UpToGood #ResponsibleReach

Alongside MG OMD and a few other industry partners, we've successfully launched our Responsible Reach Media Principles - our way of being Up to Good in the marketing/media space. By mindfully choosing who we partner with and what channels we advertise on we've already saved 7,314kg of CO2, vs traditional media plans, for our Up to Good brand launch alone.    But as a brand that’s Up To Good, we wanted to push ourselves further and deliver a net zero media plan. And that's where the Up to Good Collective Fund was born. Working with those same partners, we’ve built a Fund that's linked to our media plans, with the ambition to mitigate residual emissions that cannot yet be reduced or removed. Working with Ecologi | B Corp™, we’ll initially be using the Fund to support three verified, high impact projects that deliver both environmental and community benefits. A little bit about the programmes: - Distributing fuel efficient cookstoves in Kenya, the ‘Jikokoa’ cookstoves, reduce charcoal consumption by 64%, helping to ease the impact on local forests, and saving local families money. The stoves reduce indoor air pollution by 65%, generating health benefits for the families. All of the stoves are made locally in a solar-powered facility, which provides over a thousand jobs for local people - Installing and maintaining community water boreholes in Eritrea in Africa. One in nine people around the world do not have access to clean water. Only 19% of the population have access to clean water in this area. This project will provide long term access to safe and clean drinking water to hundreds of households. The safe water ensures households consume less firewood during the process of water purification, reducing greenhouse gas emissions - Restoring mangrove ecosystems in Pakistan. The project’s activities assist these communities to adapt to the probable impacts of climate change. The region is home to globally threatened species including the Indus River dolphin and the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin   We're excited to continue this work with our partners next year to make a positive impact. More on that to come...   #UptoGood #ESG #Sustainability #NetZero