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BSC & Electric Ireland
SUSTAINABLE
ENERGY AWARDS
ANNOUNCED
P21
Powering kindness proves
to be a great success
Jim Dollard, Executive Director BSC & Electric Ireland, with the winning charity, Childline.
Paul Stapleton, General Manager Electric Ireland, at the launch of Powering Kindness Week.
ELECTRIC IRELAND'S Powering
Kindness ran from the 17th - 23rd
January and saw tens of thousands of
kind deeds done for charity all over the
country and further afield. Childline
won the largest share of the €130,000
prizefund, taking away €60,000,
with Marie Keating Foundation and
the Irish Heart Foundation winning
€40,000 and €30,000 respectively.
We created a content hub on
www.poweringkindness.ie which
featured good deeds and stories of
kindness throughout the week.
John Sharry, Founder of Parents
Plus Charity, launched the campaign for Electric Ireland in
conjunction with Harvard's
Making Caring Common
project. The campaign ran
on TV featuring Eoghan
McDermott, Bernard Brogan and the Breakfast Republic team as well as on
radio, online and in press.
We created a content hub
on www.poweringkindness.ie
which featured good deeds and stories of kindness throughout the week.
Over the week Electric Ireland's
Powering Kindness quickly caught the
imagination of the public and saw the
support of well-known faces across the
world including Piers Morgan, who
promised not to say a single negative thing about Arsene Wenger for a
week; footballing legend Matt Le Tissi-
Miriam Brown presenting her 'act of kindness'
to Chief Executive, Pat O'Doherty.
Tom Bean
serves up
juices for Electric
Ireland colleagues.
The SMT team who
served breakfast to
staff pictured (l-r):
Ronan Sheehy,
Niall Dineen and
Gerry Tallon.
er who coached an under 12's football
match, rugby legend Brian O'Driscoll
who chased mice out of his house and
his wife, actress Amy Huberman, who
provided cheese for the mice. Singer
Ronan Keating handed out chocolates
on Grafton Street and Dublin GAA
player Bernard Brogan visited a sick
child in hospital. Niall Horan's tweet
supporting Childline received over
12,000 retweets alone.
Staff from ESB and Electric Ireland
also got involved with kind deeds all
week involving teaching genealogy to
colleagues, baking treats and running
a Juice Bar for the day. n
Pictured (l-r): Susie Halpin National Fundraising Campaigns Executive, Childline, Jim Dollard Executive
Director, BSC & Electric Ireland, Barry Dempsey, CEO Irish Heart Foundation, and Liz Yeates, Director of
Public Affairs, Marie Keating Foundation.
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