giffgaff's cycle challenge charity vote - Winner announced

hellen_b

Hello everyone,

Thank you for voting and helping us to decide which charity we should support. I'm pleased to announce that the winner is Great Ormond Street Children Hospital, with 20.6% of the 34 votes cast.

We will be soon sharing our Just Giving page with you. As you may know, we will be cycling our socks off up and down hills and along winding mountain roads for 3 days to raise money for charity. It will be a journey of 360km around Catalonia in Spain in September this year.

We will keep you posted about our adventures.

Thank you very much for your support,

hellen_b

Hello everyone,

We have some exciting charitable news from the gaff… A bunch of us enthusiastic peeps here are planning to cycle 360km around Catalonia in Spain in September this year.

We’ll be cycling our socks off up and down hills and along winding mountain roads for 3 days to raise money for charity. We’ll be climbing a total of 6148m - eeekk.

We now just need a little help from you, our lovely members, to choose the charity that we support with the proceeds of our challenge.

We’ve created a Google Form for you to vote, and the charity with the most votes will receive all the money we raise. Voting is open until Tuesday 6th June 2017 at 5 pm - so, get voting now 🙂 And if you want to learn more about any of the charities listed, I’ve popped all their website addresses at the bottom of this post so you can take a look at all the amazing work they do.

(This bike ride and charity selection is unrelated to our normal 6 monthly Payback charity selection and donations, voting for which will start soon).

Thanks in advance you lovely lot.

hellen_b

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity

DINNoedhjaelp’s orphanage

RNLI

Cancer Research

Children's Hospice

isabel1066

@hellen_b thanks.

hellen_b

Hi @isabel1066, thanks for letting me know. I've just changed the form settings. Please try again and let me know. Cheers, Hellen

isabel1066

@hellen_bworked now. and says i have responded so everything is working.

frenchielove

What a wonderful thing to do @hellen_b best of luck

formulaone

@hellen_b

Good evening 🙂

Hope your keeping well

That is absolutely amazing what your all doing to raise money for charity!

I have submitted my vote and it goes to Cancer Research

jesi23

hellen_b wrote:

Thanks in advance you lovely lot.

hellen_b

Children's Hospice

@hellen_b I don't have a google account, so I cannot login to vote.

It sounds a great challenge. Just sorry I cannot vote as I don't have a Google account.

jes

davidevans0000

@hellen_b nice one.

cps15966

@hellen_b that's brilliant, great to see this sort of thing going on and well done to all those taking part.

My vote is cast 🙂

hellen_b

Hi @jesi23, everyone can fill the form. Please, let me know if it worked 🙂 Cheers, Hellen

bobrobinson

Hiya @hellen_b

You guys are brilliant. And realy go that extra mile plus many more to help people in need.

Im so proud to be a gaffer.

Well done to you all on your ride and i wish it a great success.

All my very best.

Bob

mcilwraith

it doesn`t ask for any google details

i just voted

endorphin

Nice one peeps and the best of British to you! 🙂

@mcilwraith are you sure you're not already logged in to your google account? The form is closed to me when I'm not logged in.

jesi23

@hellen_b

Edited to include my vote for /dinnoedhjaelp's orphanage please.

Jes

harrrrrry

@mcilwraith

it doesn`t ask for any google details

It does, on the very first screen -- but google might have skipped that screen if you already have a google ID. Google is nevertheless using your google ID to spy on you -- but in your case, it isn't even telling you.

If you don't have a google ID then you can't vote without setting up a google ID -- and then google will use that ID to spy on you with every other site that you visit that embeds google's spyware.

I've opened another thread https://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Contribute/Inappropriate-requirement-to-use-a-Google-ID/m-p/20345862 to persuade giffgaff to avoid using google spyware in future.

mcilwraith

@endorphin looks as if your right guys i asked tina to try on her laptop.she`s locked out

i didn`t realise i was logged in

the nosey beggers

claire1uk

Hello. Tried to vote but it just keeps taking me back to original post.

gsklb04

Children's hospice for me please

ray2

Hi @hellen_b

What a brilliant way to raise money for charity,wishing you all the best of luck,is there anyway of getting a video diary of the 3 days,(any hilarious moments included :smileytongue 🙂 would be good to see how you all got on and what was raised at the end.

anniepop

I just love how much charity work giffgaff does