Hi Family, extended Family and friends,

A quick update from me and
a request. Please forward if I’ve missed people, its for a good cause.

Update -  Qedis has rebranded to North Highland. We were very similar and have been joined
at the hip for the last 5 years so it’s more of a name change than anything.
I’ve moved into a Global role leading our CIO Services across our 50+ Offices
in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific (locations below/attached
– I’ll be racking up some airmiles!). On a personal
level Yioula and I are enjoying Oliver(2), Nicole(4)
starting Nursery and Kindergarten and Georgia(20) studying Psychology at
Liverpool, Lizzy(21) enjoying her first proper job for Alliance Boots after
studying at Nottingham Uni.

Request -  One of the things Qedis always enjoyed and we are continuing was
working with a small charity each year (not just fundraising) to really make a
difference to them.

We have an annual event each year
Challenge-You which forms the main fundraising effort.
Someone in the company thinks up a crazy goal we can get sponsored for. Last
year it was to exercise for 24 hours and  some of you will recall I rowed 205km
on a rowing machine, raised a lot of money and got a very sore bum;-).

This year we are supporting The Haven - an inspiring a network of volunteers that support
and empower adults and young people who have suffered incest, childhood sexual
abuse, serious sexual assault, physical, mental, emotional abuse, rape,
domestic violence, gang-related sexual abuse or torture.

Challenge You
2013: 4000 Miles from our London to Atlanta offices – our employees take part in various sporting activities
to cumulatively cover the distance between our office in Covent Garden to our
office over the pond in Atlanta, a distance of a whopping 4000 miles! Almost
all of our 200+ London based employees are contributing miles somehow.

My part in this will be to cycle as far as I can
towards that total in the 18 hours from the stroke of midnight on Friday till
the event finishes at 6pm on Saturday 11th May. That’s 18 hours and I’m hoping to hit 200 miles. I
cycled from central London to my Parents in Southampton via Bognor Regis as
part of my training on Monday and that 125 miles took me 10 hours so if you want
to sponsor per mile you can be fairly certain I’ll break 150 and won’t get to
250. I hoping it’ll be easier doing it with a bunch of my friends colleagues
but the weather is looking windy which isn’t great.

Please join me in supporting
Haven, I’ve heard some harrowing stories whilst working with them and some
inspiring ways they’ve helped people recover. There a quite a few people
receiving this so I’m hoping a lot of you contributing a little each will add
up to a lot, so even if it’s just a pound, every little helps and is greatly
appreciated.

www.justgiving.com/teams/roadcycling

Thank you very
much,

Ben.