Charity emails

Hi Shweta

My current company allows employees to circulate fundraising requests via email. (It started well before I began). I've found;
- They get deleted quickly and are barely read
- Some staff have actually set up filters to auto-delete emails with fundraising, charity etc as subject titles
- Most people only contribute to those they know, e.g. part of their existing team so in all honesty, feel an email is unnecessary
- It detracts massively from the company charity and corporate social responsibility work (emails get 'lumped' together so in turn makes our charity teams job harder as they cannot rely on email to communicate 'whole company' charity initiatives)

I think its a can of worms - and around local marathon dates you get inundated and therefore causes complete charity apathy.

Kind regards
Laura

Hi Shweta

My current company allows employees to circulate fundraising requests via email. (It started well before I began). I've found;
- They get deleted quickly and are barely read
- Some staff have actually set up filters to auto-delete emails with fundraising, charity etc as subject titles
- Most people only contribute to those they know, e.g. part of their existing team so in all honesty, feel an email is unnecessary
- It detracts massively from the company charity and corporate social responsibility work (emails get 'lumped' together so in turn makes our charity teams job harder as they cannot rely on email to communicate 'whole company' charity initiatives)

I think its a can of worms - and around local marathon dates you get inundated and therefore causes complete charity apathy.

Kind regards
Laura

Thankyou Laura, exactly, I feel its can of worms and not sure to open it or not. I am going to let the employee know that she/he can send it to the colleagues they know well vs all.